Jim Carrier is an award-winning journalist, civil rights activist and filmmaker whose fate found him in New Orleans days before Hurricane Katrina. The author of 10 books, he has been published in the New York Times and National Geographic. For 13 years he roamed the American West as the "Rocky Mountain Ranger," which took him through 500,000 miles, 7,665 sunsets and 87 pairs of Levis. His work has been anthologized in several volumes, including Best American Science and Nature Writing.