Travels of a Wannabe Cowboy: ...Or How I Found Mesquite
William Petersen
Oct 2010 · Xlibris Corporation
Ebook
283
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About this ebook
A delightful tale of an immigrants lifelong journey from the tiny village of Hornstrup in Nazi-occupied Denmark to the Mojave Desert town of Mesquite, Nevada, down on the Virgin River. On the way, he stopped off to enjoy a misspent youth in another little village, this time in Ireleth, in the beautiful English Lake District. Then it was off to America to spend a decade with a large conglomerate, before heading off to Utah for a thirty-year sojourn among the Mormons. Full of enchanting depictions of village life in both Denmark and England, as well as life among the Mormons of Utah, its sure to captivate readers from both Europe and America.
About the author
William Petersen was born in 1940 in Bredballe, Denmark to Winifred Hodgson and Harald Petersen, the well-known Danish guitar maker. The family moved to England when the author was ten, and he went on to emigrate to America, with his wife Carol, after obtaining a Physics degree from the University of Leeds in Yorkshire. They live in Nevada, but maintain a townhouse in the Salt Lake area of Utah.
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