Julie is a retired Life and Health Insurance Agent. She has had the opportunity to raise three children. Two daughters, and one son, with her husband Mike. She was born and raised in Utah. She has moved eight times before her marriage, and moved 12 times after her marriage. She finally settled in Riverton, Utah, where she enjoys her 2 living children, and 9 grandchildren, and 1 Great grandchild.

Julie has worked at various jobs, including a Library in Virginia, while her husband worked as a Computer Technician. She also worked at a Ranch in Nevada, where she lived and worked taking care of over 60 baby Calves that had been separated from their mothers. Once the calves were old enough, they were released back into the herd. Julie and her family lived in a trailer on one of the Farms the Ranch owned and provided.

There was a large Barn close by, which is where she kept the calves. This house was twenty five miles from the main Ranch Headquarters with nothing around it for miles, and 40 miles from the nearest town. Julie drove her daughter 100 miles a day to get her to and from the bus. The children would then travel an additional fifteen miles to get to school. . .

Her husband was hired by the Manager of the Ranch to take care of the
Electrical watering system Called Pivots, on the Farms, along with raising the alfalfa to feed the cattle during the winter season.

Julie also had a horse her Mother brought out to her. Her mother could no longer take care of it, and Julie had the space. She loved to ride the horse around the farm, and out to where Mike was working on the Pivots. . . After a few years , they moved to another Ranch, where her husband did the same thing taking care of the Pivots, and growing alfalfa for the cattle. They lived much closer to town, and her children only had to travel ten miles on a bus to get to school instead of 40 miles each day. .

While living on this Ranch, she worked at a Brine Shrimp factory, where they dried and canned Brine Shrimp off of the Great Salt Lake. Soon after having her third child, the Ranch was sold, and she and their family moved back to Salt Lake City, where they had a home they had been renting out to another family. .

Once their family got settled again, Julie started working for Eastern Airlines, as a Reservation Sales Representative till they dissolved the company, and went out of business. She then started working for an Insurance agency, until they closed the Senior Medicare program. She then became an independent agent, contracting with various Insurance Companies, taking care of Senior Citizens that needed help with their Medicare Insurance.

After hearing so many stories from her mother about her childhood, Julie decided to sit down with her mother, and write her history.

The story begins with a little history of one womens family, beginning in the
1800’s, and some of the trials they went through. The story moves on with her Mother, and then her Father. Her Mother comes from a family that owned a mine in Colorado, where her father was murdered. She along with her Mother and siblings had to leave in order to survive.

Her Father was separated from his two sisters after his parents died, and was given to another family. The family treated him well, but they were Sheepherders, so he learned at an early age to take care of the sheep, as well as scare off, or even kill predators. He loved animals, and this was a difficult thing for him to do. .

As an adult her father became a trapper for the Federal Government, surviving the best way he could. The Government deemed it necessary for men to go out and trap the wild animals that were killing the farmers, livestock. There wasn’t a lot of work available at that time. It was right before the depression, so he became a Government Trapper, and lived throughout the wilderness in a tent, or one of the Cabins that he, along with some of the other Trappers and Rangers built along the way.

The story continues on, with this young woman recalling her experiences. Raised during the Depression and World War II. Her travels, and her life in the wilderness growing up with her family.

The life she lives is not an easy one. Losing loved ones along the way, but the support and love of her family make it rewarding.

After the Depression she continues on with the country starting over, and the long lasting effects of the Depression. She then meets and marries a man. What kind of life she moves into, and the experiences of Good and Evil.

This is a book of life. A life that is full of good, bad, evil, kindness, and eventually happiness.