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Risking the Rapids: How My Wilderness Adventure Healed My Childhood
Library of Congress Cataloging
ISBN: (p) 978-1-63353-887-0, (e) 978-1-63353-886-3
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018962580
BISAC—BIO026000—BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Printed in the United States of America.
Please note: Some names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals.
Risking
the
Rapids
How My Wilderness Adventure
Healed My Childhood
Irene O’Garden
Mango Publishing
Coral Gables, FL
God Bless
Mommy, Daddy,
Kako, Pogo, Tommy,
Skip, Irene, Jim, Rosemary,
and the Little One We Lost.
Also, all the wonderful people
preceding, married to, and descending from them.
Table of Contents
Montana 2014, Day One: Loading Up
Montana, Day One: Tenting Tonight
Montana Day Three: Angels on Horseback
Montana, Day Four: On the Raft