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A Long Path
Life and Times of Peter T. Bromley
This memoir is the story of adventure, strength, and a lifetime passion for the outdoors. It begins as childhood exploration in a stream in New York and goes on to tough crags of the Rockies, tracing decades of exploring, preserving and personal conquests.
Meet Peter T. Bromley
Peter T. Bromley has been spending his entire life tracing trails. Being an adventurous boy, he played in creeks and orchards in upstate New York. Afterward, being a wildlife biologist, he continued to travel in the United States and Canada. He worked in the Catskills, Montana, Alberta, South Dakota and the Island of Lanai of the Hawaiian Islands, Virginia and North Carolina. Throughout his journey he had total respect for nature and a commitment for conservation.
In A Long Path, he reveals his experiences, teachings and episodes (good and bad) that made his outstanding career and personal life.
Gallery
Clif Rexrode with his first spring wild turkey gobbler and Pete with his bird at the Rexrode homestead in the Virginia mountains, 1980.
Peter married Carol Rauch on Finley Point on Flathead Lake at the University of Montana Biological Station on July 25, 1965
Virginia hunting and fishing buddies Harry Steeves, Pete, and Clif Rexrode, Waynesboro, VA. Photo by Ron Blackburn, 1988.
Pete's first pickup, a 1946 Chevy—a $50 fixer-upper bought from a logger.
Our first rental house cost us $65/month in Milltown, MT, 1966.
Pete was fascinated by a beetle in a bottle—a hint of a pattern in his life. The scene was in East Hampton, NY, 1943.
A self-portrait done as part of a course in freehand illustration at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1963.
Evening sunsets on the Mission Mountains in the Rockies were enjoyed from our quarters at the National Bison Range.
U.S. Army memorabilia: 4th Infantry Division, 212th Artillery Group, captain's bars, 6th Army Commendation Medal, dog tag. Ft. Lewis, WA, 1969.
About the Book
Peter T. Bromley has written a touching memoir, entitled A Long Path. He narrates his story in down home language. Childhood experiences with wild places, tough lessons, and the people Peter shared his life with bring the experiences of the life Peter has lived, since childhood, through old age.
From early recollections of country life, living with loving families, friends and colleagues who tolerated his inexhaustible passions for the outdoor life and his decades of education, research and public service, he shares with us high and low points and lessons learned along the way.
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