Publisher's Synopsis
"For twenty years, the author worked diligently to save lives, first as a firefighter, then as a paramedic and finally as a physician assistant. It's the kind of work that will change a person, the kind that leaves an indelible mark. Anyone in that profession finds some way to cope with the horror that is mankind. Or, they don't survive. The author's means of coping was to drive. For years, she drove long, long distances across the country, across the continent, until she had seen all fifty states and every province in Canada. Along the way, she ran into her friends, brothers, and sisters in the badge. She found the other people who were still doing the work she had done, and they started to tell her their stories. Of particular impact are the stories that come out of the repeated cycle of boom and bust that has shaped our movement across the North American continent for the last four hundred years. Whether it's the gold for our coffers
