If it is true that the best advice for a young novelist is to experience what he wants to write about, then this book is an experience built upon an experience. Barry Murray pioneered the Pacific Crest Trail by riding horseback 2,500 miles from Mexico to Canada; he has kayaked the 2,000 mile legnth of the Yukon River; and he has lived with the Choco Indians of Panama while on a gold diving expedition.

Murray at the time writing this book was going through a bitter divorce —also very transparent. As a well seasoned writer with credits in LIFE, Holiday, and other national and international publications, maintaining a daily dicipline on what was happening to Jed, the name of a horse from the PCT exploration.

On account of Murray worrying about the literary rights of his work disapearing into a nightmare situation, this book, I want a Horse, and Search For a Shadow of the Past, were held back from public distribution— as happened to un-indexed boxes of his early photographic transparancies.

Barry's climb back to being a person that "makes things happen," began by being both publisher and editor of Economic Currents Magazine, a regional "dead tree" gloss magazine. When the freedom of www publishing came along Murray found his "Jenny," and they now divide their time to summers in wilderness Alaska where they publish www.AlaskaTravelMagazine.com, and winters on the road as www.MotorhomeTraveler.com