"Throughout the decade of the 1930s, a young father was separated from his wife and small children, due to the Great Depression. He was fortunate, however to have found employment with the U.S. Forest Service as a Supervisor of the young enrollees of the newly formed Civilian Conservation Corps, known as the C.C.Cs. Evenings were long and lonely for him in camp after the days work was over. He missed his family and the fun he enjoyed with four little sons and one little daughter. To help fill those hours, he wrote stories about those children of his, giving them the last name of Whoopenhollar.... The setting for all of the stories was the out-of-doors in the mountains of Colorado where they lived... The father would not end the story that he was writing, but leave a real cliff hanger so the children would anticipate the next story coming to them via U.S. Postal Service. The "Whoopenhollar stories" were the inspiration for the author to write her memories of how she and her brothers and their mother lived during that time and a way to preserve the stories that their father had written to them."--p. [4] of cover.