{"id":6,"date":"2016-06-23T18:20:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/fredericmarshcivishjr\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2016-06-23T18:20:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:20:56","slug":"out-of-the-gulch-onto-the-mountain-top-by-frederick-marsh-civish-jr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/fredericmarshcivishjr\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Gulch, Onto the Mountain Top <br>by Frederick  Marsh Civish, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About the Book<\/h2>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7\" src=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/fredericmarshcivishjr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/961\/2016\/06\/Civish_Cover_Web.jpg\" alt=\"Civish_Cover_Web\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/fredericmarshcivishjr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/961\/2016\/06\/Civish_Cover_Web.jpg 576w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/fredericmarshcivishjr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/961\/2016\/06\/Civish_Cover_Web-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> Born in a small coal mining town in 1931, Frederic Marsh Civish, Jr. lived through things most people nowadays would consider history. For example, he is older than the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Hoover Dam.<\/p>\n<p>On Pearl Harbor Day, he was duck hunting with a 12-gage shotgun. In the 21st century, he was a substitute teacher, author of the historical novel The Sunnyside War about the 1922 United Mineworkers Strike. He also wrote \u201ca truly workable diet book\u201d titled Losing Weight for Life: Eating What you Like on the RMR Diet. He is still extremely active and involved in numerous social and charitable activities.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Utah, \u201cI felt the state and everybody in it could be described with two words: I called the state \u2018sticks and people hicks.\u2019 After joining the Navy during the Korean War and living in several California cities, in 1962, for various reasons, I decided to move back to the sticks and become one of them \u2018thar\u2019 hicks. I lived in Salt Lake until 2012, when I got tired of the traffic and the smog, and moved north to Ogden, Utah, where my current home is about a quarter of a mile from huge mountains reminiscent of those where I was born and raised.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>About the Author<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/fredericmarshcivishjr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/961\/2016\/06\/craze21-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"craze2(1)\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/fredericmarshcivishjr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/961\/2016\/06\/craze21-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/fredericmarshcivishjr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/961\/2016\/06\/craze21-768x1212.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/fredericmarshcivishjr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/961\/2016\/06\/craze21-649x1024.jpg 649w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/fredericmarshcivishjr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/961\/2016\/06\/craze21-624x985.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/fredericmarshcivishjr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/961\/2016\/06\/craze21.jpg 1493w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Frederic Marsh Civish, Jr.<\/strong> grew up in Carbon County, Utah, named for its many coal mines in the Wasatch and Book Cliff Mountain ranges. As a youth, he saw the Sunnyside Mine explosion, which killed 23 miners in May 1945. Retired from a long life of making a living and raising six children, he now lives back in Utah, Out of the Gulch, Onto the Mountain Top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Book Born in a small coal mining town in 1931, Frederic Marsh Civish, Jr. lived through things most people nowadays would consider history. For example, he is older than the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Hoover Dam. On Pearl Harbor Day, he was duck hunting with a 12-gage shotgun. 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