Range Roaming Betty's Book

08/18/2021

Wow

09/03/2019

https://tucson.com/entertainment/books/southern-arizona-authors/article_733aa3ab-890d-526e-b5b1-4e690eb8fb85.html?fbclid=IwAR0bWCqAqjukh_6H0oAofFZ9YIAm_QeFXLKm8AFAZYVpMwD577Rjr_cCMrY

“From Grief to Acceptance: An Active Process for Healing While Honoring Our Loved Ones” by Misty Proffitt-Thompson.

09/03/2019

Tucson Review of Betty's Book by Helene Woodlands

Range Roaming: A Birdwatcher’s 65-Plus Year Love Affair with the Chiricahua Mountains” by Betty Jones.
Independently published. $22.00.
It would be hard to find a hiking buddy more wilderness-savvy or enthusiastic than Betty Jones. By the time she passed away in 2017, Jones had spent over 65 years exploring the Chiracahua Mountains; Range Roaming is her lively account of those years. Part backcountry guide and part memoir, Range Roaming contains a wealth of knowledge including historical and cultural landmarks, favorite trails, and tips for identifying birds and wildflowers. However, the real delight of this book is the personal story at its heart. In the 1970s, when she realized that outdoor adventuring was more than a weekend avocation, Jones left her TUSD teaching job to live, full time, off the land. A Euell Gibbons fan, she became skilled at foraging for Southwest outdoor delicacies. Her interest in bird-watching grew into expertise, and her enviable “life list” includes many of the 370 birds populating southeast Arizona’s sky islands. In her 70s she could still be found hiking trails she initially trod 40 years earlier. Sadly, Jones did not live to see her manuscript published; her brother, Tucsonan Rob Jones and his wife, Doris, saw it through publication, a fitting homage to an Arizona outdoorswoman.
— Helene Woodhams

03/02/2019

Tomorrow between 2:30 and 4:30 Rob and Thad will be selling Betty's Book Range Roaming A Birders 65 Plus Year Love Affair with the Chiricahau Mountains at the Tucson Book Festival. They will be located in the middle of the U of A Mall between the TMC and U of A Tents. Come on down and get yourself a book.

02/26/2019

This Saturday, March 2nd, Rob and Thad will have a booth at the Tucson Festival of Books, from 2:30 to 4:30 at the University of Arizona Mall.

01/17/2019

Rob will at Wings over Willcox with Betty's Book. Cost $22 cash discount $20

01/11/2019

The first book sold to Anita Bowland.

01/10/2019

Betty and nephew Thad in the Chiricahuas hiking and finishing some research for her book.

01/10/2019

Just did an interview concerning Betty's book with the editor of the Range News. Look for a story next week.

01/02/2019

The book has arrived brought tears to my eyes

12/28/2018

CO-ED CATTLE RUSTLING
On our drive out of Pinery Canyon, we decided that one of the dried cattle skins covering poles on both sides of a cattle guard would dress up our meeting room in the women’s physical education building back at the University of Arizona. It took some work to remove the dried hard hide from its pole and to attach it to the top of my vehicle for the ride back to Tucson. I am surprised that we made it back to Tucson without being stopped and questioned about “hunting out of season.

We mounted the hide on the wall of our meeting room in
the old physical education building; and, as we were admiring the “western look” décor, the head of the department got wind of our interior decorating skills and arrived to investigate. Not having the same taste in western embellishments, he asked us to remove the hide, and there was a strong suggestion that our actions might be in the realm of cattle rustling! I never figured out the connection between a dried old skin of a cow hanging on a cattle guard and cattle rustling, but it did bother me for years. I hope that the statute of limitations is defunct.

12/28/2018

Betty's Book will arrive from the publisher by the end of next week. Range Roaming a Birders 65 Year Love Affair with the Chiricahau Mountains. Price $22 or $20 if you pay cash.