Paid in Sunsets: A Park Ranger's Story

Paid in Sunsets: A Park Ranger's StoryPaid in Sunsets: A Park Rangers Story is a humorous memoir of David A. Dutton's life as a Federal Park Ranger. Park Rangers are called upon to do many dangerous things, like rappel down cliff faces to rescue stranded climbers, or cut fire lines in advance of raging forest infernos. Dutton didnt do those things. He spent thirty one years sharing the natural world with others. This memoir retells the best of those experiencesbawdy encounters along the

Paid in Sunsets: A Park RangerÕs Story is a humorous memoir of David A. Dutton's life as a Federal Park Ranger. Park Rangers are called upon to do many dangerous things, like rappel down cliff faces to rescue stranded climbers, or cut fire lines in advance of raging forest infernos. Dutton didnÕt do those things. He spent thirty-one years sharing the natural world with others. This memoir retells the best of those experiencesÑbawdy encounters along the muddy Rio Grande, ghosts in a remote Southwest canyon, swimming with Great White sharks, tweezing pernicious Kentucky ticks off his body, carrying diarrhea out of the longest cave in the world, and getting pissed on by an indignant raccoon in a Mississippi backwater, to name a few. The memoir is about birth, life, and sometimes, death. ItÕs about a journeyÑfrom being a greenhorn Park Ranger in New Mexico to becoming an ordained Senior Park Ranger in Mississippi, twenty years later.