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The Longest Trail carries readers through a spellbinding new work by Willits, CA author Roni McFadden. As a young teen, McFadden left behind the confusion and pain of her unhappy preteen years. She tells of how she went up up onto horses, up the road to a man who could help her, and up the mountain, to where she could see clearly and breathe deeply. And, finally, up to another place where only some can go. As she travels The Longest Trail, Roni evolves from a girl stumbling along treacherous and twisted paths to become a strong young woman who knows where she is going, how to get there, and understands she will have help along the way. Her route took her over The Longest Trail, through life, until she arrived here, now. Having had the visions, seen the petroglyphs, felt the grinding stones, and carrying obsidian chips with her, McFadden knows the strength of the spirits of the ancients, knows their energy can be used by anyone who feels their vibrations. Spending all of her teen years in the High Sierras riding horses and managing horse-packing tours, Roni learned about animals, people, and life. In the time since then Roni has continued on The Longest Trail, adding the wisdom of another 40 years to her perspective as she relives, and recreates those years on the pages of The Longest Trail. As you ride with McFadden up the trail in this book, you will know the joy, fear, grief, humor, beauty and wonder she experienced in the high country, in Altadena, and all along the way, as she journeyed to this time and place by way of The Longest Trail.

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Roni McFadden is the mother of four and grandmother of fifteen. She lives in Willits, California with her husband of forty-three years, John. Little did they know when moving to Northern California that the property they bought and built a house on was once part of the Ridgewood Ranch, home of the famous racehorse Seabiscuit. Roni began a career with the equine vets that have cared for the horses at the ranch for over twenty years, and through that connection was able to write and publish her first book. Josephine A Tale of Hope and Happy Endings is a children's book about a great granddaughter of the legendary Seabiscuit who becomes orphaned at four days of age and follows the filly as she is accepted by a surrogate mare. All proceeds from the sale of Josephine go to the Howard Hospital Foundation and the T.R.A.I.L. therapeutic riding program at the Ridgewood Ranch in Willits, CA. Roni's association with Josephine and the Ridgewood Ranch enabled her to start her own small publishing company, which she named The Biscuit Press. It took her nine years to put her life down on paper and tell the story of her teenage years working at a pack station in the High Sierras. This book is a result of that hard work.

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