7/6/2023 0 Comments The Walk West by Peter Jenkins![]() ![]() I had loved and lost my forever friend, Cooper Half Malamute. I had almost died in a storm-pounded shelter on the Appalachian Trail and had shoveled horse manure on an Alabama ranch. ![]() I had shared outer and inner spaces with a hermit mountain man and been nicknamed Albino by a loving black family. I had frozen my feet in West Virginia and boiled my brains in Alabama. "From my first searching journey out of Alfred, I had lived a life of extremes, I had starved my way through the Smokies and stuffed myself Southern style. Near the end of this section of his journey (the rest is retold in the next book, A Walk West) Peter reflects this way: ![]() In the autumn of 1973, with his loyal half-malamute dog, Cooper, Peter began walking. Before he gave up hope in himself and in this land of the free, he wanted to really give it a chance - to really get to know it. As a young man, Peter had become very disillusioned with his country and with himself. It is the true story of Peter's journey from Alfred, New York to New Orleans, Louisiana. ![]()
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