The River Calls by Author Ron Shepherd

A warm and wonderful tale of how life once was.

The River Calls is a tale of what Northern Minnesota was like many years ago when men were tough and life was simpler. This was a time when a man that was too lazy to work died of hunger. You celebrated even the smallest things and family was the most important part of your life.

In this modern world, we have come to a place that puzzles us. We wish for a life that isnt as complex, that is kinder and less demanding but are unwilling to give up on the new freedoms and technologies. So not being able to go back in time, we hunger for the way things were, the smell of wood smoke and spring flowers.

In northern Minnesota, fall 1947, two hunters meet while on a goose hunting trip near Roseau, Minnesota. They agree to share a campfire and a pot of coffee and begin a friendship that carries them through many years of adventures. The old river rat Wil Morgan tells of his life on the Bigfork River and Matt Andrews, the Minneapolis doctor tries to make a new life for himself with Wil as his teacher. The community accepts him and he starts a medical practice for the townspeople and the lumberjacks.

This is a delightful tale of how life once was, and how we sometimes wish that it could still be. In a time of terrorists and wholesale murder, it feels good to sit back and remember a gentler time, a time when you could still hear wolves at night and come inside the warm cabin with frost in your beard and smell the homemade bread.

Mr. Shepherd is a lifelong resident of the Grand Rapids area. He is a retired rural mail carrier, a painter in oils, a canoeist, a professional photographer and a lover of Minnesotas great outdoors.

This book is available at Publish America, 1-240-529-1031, therivercalls.com, and fine book dealers worldwide. ISBN 1-59286-943-2