Buck Tilton

Buck Tilton is a wilderness medicine expert and instructor. The founder of the Wilderness Medicine Institute, he has authored over 40 books, including Wilderness First Responder and Backcountry First Aid and Extended Care. He is the recipient of the Paul Petzoldt Award for excellence in wilderness education, the Warren Bowman Award for contributions to wilderness medicine, and the Ben Franklin Award, given to the second best humor book of the year. He lives in Lander, Wyoming. David Jacobson has had his work published in Down East, The New Yorker, and The Bangor Daily News, among others. In addition to drawing cartoons at his home in Montville, Maine, he has been an artisan glassblower for more than twenty years.