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Growing up on a small family farm in the shadows of Yellowstone National Park, Clyde Seely learned the importance of hard work, strong family ties and making the best of any circumstance. He uses warm and engaging stories with nuggets of interesting insights and lessons learned in relating the trials and successes of his life's story. Then opportunity knocked. Follow Clyde's first-hand experience as he relives the conflicts and challenges that transformed the young farm boy into a successful businessman who helped make West Yellowstone, Montana into the renowned destination town it has become. Whether it was increasing tourism with the Painted Buffalo project, leading the massive effort of fighting the 1988 fires of Yellowstone, keeping public winter access open to Yellowstone, or a variety of community improvements, Clyde's innovative solutions, optimism and faith helped to change the course of this region. Like a pebble tossed in a pond causes ripples to spread across the entire surface, key people have had a positive influence on Clyde's life. He has cast his own pebbles, as he has strived to make life better for others who pause to know him or the great town of West Yellowstone.

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Clyde Seely is a comfortable autobiographer whose ideals sustain his story. Relating how pebbles thrown in a pond create wider and farther-flung ripples as they fall, he designates his chapters as Pebbles. A poet and collector of songs and folklore, Seely keeps his story positive, infusing a gentle sense of humor but also emotively detailing his experience of life's inevitable traumas. His memories and ability to order and enliven them are inspirational and will doubtless attract readers, especially those with a strong belief, like Seeley's own, in the essential spirit of the American dream. Barbara Bamberger Scott, The US Review of Books Clyde Seely's memoir... is a masterpiece of United States history, told through an oftentimes overlooked lens - the family history of humble farmers whose lineage dates back to colonial America. Seely begins the book by asking readers to go to the last page, this sets the light hearted tone for the book and gives the reader a bit of insight to Seely's fun natured personality. I found myself laughing and tearing up throughout the book. Seely's memoir is an excellent lesson in gratitude.... He describes influences in his life as pebbles making ripples in a pond. They go on endlessly, forever changing the state of the water even below the surface. This metaphor flows through the entire book, making interesting connections along the way. Reading his memoir is like watching history unfold. His storytelling is enjoyable to read and each page holds new facts to learn. This book greatly sparked my interest inYellowstone and I have a whole new view of this piece of American history thanks to Clyde's beautiful and intricate family history Margie Pryzbylski, Pacific Book Review

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