Brooklyn to Yellowstone: A 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps Odyssey

This historical novel is a hybrid, containing the actual journal a 19-year-old man kept from April 1933, when he joined the CCCs, through his tour in Yellowstone Park, and his return home to Brooklyn in September.

Using the journal verbatim as a plot device, the bulk of the book contains what he might have omitted, what he might have been, the relationships he might have formed, the deaths he might have experienced, and the lover he might have left behind in Montana.

The son of Sicilian immig...