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Specialty Subjects : Texas and Civil War history, national parks, humor, and travel.

Book Credits : Saltgrass Prairie Homestead: A German American Family in Texas , 2025, Texas A&M University Press, ISBN-13: 978-1648432736 Hey Ranger! True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from America's National Parks , 2005, Taylor Trade Publishing, ISBN-13: 978-1589791916 Hey Ranger 2! More True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from the Great Outoors, 2007, Taylor Trade Publishing, ISBN-13: 978-1589793293 https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781648432736/saltgrass-prairie-saga/ https://www.amazon.com/Hey-Ranger-Misadventure-Americas-National/dp/1589791916 https://www.amazon.com/Hey-Ranger-Tales-Misadventure-Outdoors/dp/1589793293

Enter your professional bio here : Jim Burnett began writing following a thirty-year career with the National Park Service, and his experiences at eight parks all across the county provided a wealth of material for three non-fiction books. He has authored over four hundred short articles as a contributor for National Parks Traveler.org. During his three decades in the parks, Jim encountered visitors from all over the world, and inevitably some of those trips to the parks didn't turn out quite as planned. After his retirement, Jim took the best of those examples of vacations gone awry and included them in his first book, Hey Ranger! True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from America's National Parks. A sequel, Hey Ranger 2: More True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from the Great Outdoors, followed two years later. Jim's goal with both books was to create family-friendly reading that would both entertain and inform, to help his readers avoid similar miscues on their own park visits. He has enjoyed sharing these stories during national and regional radio and TV appearances and in-person talks for a variety of audiences. Jim's newest book, Saltgrass Prairie Saga: A German American Family in Texas, was published by Texas A&M University Press in 2025. This non-fiction work is based on excerpts from a large collection of letters written by a family who came to Texas from Germany in 1845. That material, along with first-hand accounts from several diaries, local records, military reports, and other contemporary accounts, was woven into a historical narrative that covers life on the Texas coastal prairie from the frontier years to the Civil War and beyond. The book offers a new perspective on a pivotal period in the history of Texas, and Jim looks forward to sharing these stories as he continues to actively research follow-up articles from this book

Writing Credits : Over 400 articles on nationalparkstraveler.org; short pieces in Family History Magazine, Reminisce magazine, and the Saturday Evening Post.

Awards and Recognition : First Place Award, 2008 ''Excellence in Craft'' competition, Texas Outdoor Writers Asssociation, for the book, '' Hey Ranger 2 - More True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from the Great Outdoors.

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