Characters in Paradise: A Yellowstone Memoir

To stand out as a character in the Paradise Valley, you have to be quite a character. And Fred Shellenberg is one of them — a good-natured man with a dry sense of humor and enough stories to fill a book. The Livingston native recounts a lifetime of tales in Characters in Paradise: A Yellowstone Memoir.

Russell Chatham, renowned artist and Livingston resident, says in the introduction, ?the vignettes are clearly all real, and they create a historical framework that brings to events to life. Perhaps this recollection?s greatest strength is that it is told honestly and simply without a hint of artifice, in the voice of a proud, bona fide native son.?