Becker resident and author Mary Jo Mosher has a new book out and she plans to give a talk and do a book signing  at the Becker Public Library, Sat., May 21, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

 

Mosher’s latest book, “The Volunteers: Tales of adventure and mayhem in the Bighorn National Forest” is about the people that come and go in the Bighorn National Forest, its history, conflicts, fires, accidents, legends and adventures 

For those who love nature and are uncertain where to spend their vacations, Mosher says they should consider Wyoming’s Bighorn National Forest with its spectacular scenery and variety of wildlife. Mosher and her husband Robert Dingmann had no idea their introduction to these stunning mountains with their horses in 1985 would change their lives forever. 

 

Each summer, the Bighorn Mountains kept luring Mosher and Dingmann into the forest’s secret world of mystery and adventure, begging them to become part of it. The following excerpt from Mary Jo’s journal offers a small taste of what visitors can expect. 

 

“As we continued our adventures in the Bighorn National Forest, we discovered a delightfully different world on the mountain separated from phone service, billboard signs, street lights, housing developments, semaphores, internet and television – a world where people are meant to co-exist as guests of the wildlife that lives there, where moose and mule deer wander through your camp on their way to breakfast. It’s a step back to a previous era when roads were narrow, gravel, and full of bumps and holes that don’t allow travel with low-clearance vehicles.”

 

If only the pine forest could speak — and through Mary Jo’s book they will — as she hopes to enlighten interested readers  about her and her husband’s experiences out west. 

 

For those who cannot attend the talk and book signing and would like a copy of her book, contact her at 763-262-1087 or via e-mail  at: mjgmd32741@windstream.net.