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About Kent Nelson | Rescues and Tragedies in the San Juan Mountains
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Rescues and Tragedies in the San Juan Mountains. True Stories from the Region. Photos and Free Story. Ouray Mountain Rescue Site. Has lived in Ouray County, Colorado since 1974. He has done some unusual and interesting jobs. Over the years, including dishwasher, ad salesman, writer for a tow truck magazine and city judge. Mountain Hiker and Runner. Kent has hiked all over the San Juan Mountains. He also has run the Imogene Pass Race three times and the Pikes Peak Marathon twice. The Spirit Bird,. Kent ha...
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Writing Wyoming: March 2015
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Words, wind and everything else Wyoming. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Photo of Kent Nelson. Taken by Julio Mulero on. Attu Island, Alaska, the last Aleutian. And his stories are all over the map, and I mean that in a good way. His recent short story collection, The Spirit Bird: Stories. Winner of the 2014 Drue Heinz Literature Prize) covers a lot of territory, and the author does some shape-shifting to become many different people to tell the characters’ stories. Kent on birding…. The stories are a pretty wi...
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Gingerivers~ a small voice in the melee
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Gingerivers: 12/01/2005 - 01/01/2006. A small voice in the melee. Thursday, December 22, 2005. Neighbors along the way. National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. In their midst a man lives, and has lived for most of his 40 some years. Let’s call him Willie, so his privacy is not invaded. Willie has no electricity or running water. He's considered odd, abnormal, crazy. I wonder if these folks know they have a son who lives across the street from them? Another person observed him getting water from a neighbo...