Louise A. Jackson received her B.A. from UCLA and pursued graduate studies at several universities in California and Nevada. Over the years, her occupations have included business management, elementary-school teaching, historical research, writing, and painting. Her published works include The Mule Men: A History of Stock Packing in the Sierra Nevada, a weekly education column, numerous history articles, and poetry. After living for thirty-two years in the northern Sierra Nevada, Jackson returned to the southern Sierra and now resides in an on-hundred-year-old adobe home in the foothill commu...