About the author
Barry Murray pioneered the Pacific Crest Trail by riding horseback 2,500 miles from Mexico to Canada after which he spent a number of years as a horseshoer; he has kayaked the 2,000 mile length of the Yukon River; and he has lived with the Choco´ Indians while on a gold mining expedition into the jungle of Panama.
Murray, who claims to be an amateur ‘horseback historian’ simply for the credentials of being from a Celtic family that had traveled every trail in America from the Cumberland Gap, to the Natchese Trace, to the Santa Fe, and cattle drives, to the Oregon immigrant migration, to Alaska’s Chilkoot Pass, can be counted upon as a non academic resource to “tell it the way it was.”