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Following retirement, older people today are starting new businesses, returning to universities, becoming world travelers, entering the arts, taking full-time volunteer jobs, and setting new patterns of divorce and remarriage. In this "why to" book, Frank Hutchison gives encouragement to mature persons who wish to have satisfying personal lives while contributing to society. He outlines many facets of a better and greatly expanded life by pointing out the fascinating and challenging areas of thought, commitment, and action open to older persons.

Of all the memoirs of the wild West, Frank Crampton's autobiography of his youth in the mining camps ranks with the very best.

Scion of a wealthy New York family, Crampton ran away from home in 1904 at the age of sixteen. Two bindle stiffs picked him up in a Chicago railroad depot and led him west as they taught him to survive first as a hobo and then as a hard-rock miner. In the first two decades of this century Crampton lived and worked in almost all of the important mining camps in the Westin California, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado as a miner, assayer, surveyor, and finally one of...