My Dad grew up amidst the dinosaur bones and the hoodoos of the badlands of Alberta before his home town became a ghost town........................................................he  ran away from home  when he was fourteen, long before the town died.......................................he and his buddy Frank rode the rails out to the West Coast, huddled in the freezing box cars as the train wound it's way through the passes of the Rockies..............................................until they reached the West Coast