Ever Faithful by Karen Barnett
In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal helped employ young men through the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to give them a hand up through the Great Depression. Nate Weber was one of the recruits in Karen Barnett's historical fiction novel, Ever Faithful . He is one of the older young men in the first group to come to Yellowstone from the cities out East. What a change for these young men in so many ways. Ever Faithful is set in Yellowstone National Park and is the third in her Vintage National Park novel series. (Each of these books is set in a different park and can stand alone.) Elsie Brooks is a ranger's daughter and spent much of her growing up years in Yellowstone. The past few years she has worked in the park's hotels as a maid saving up for her college tuition to become a teacher. In Ever Faithful , Elsie gets some early teaching experience as she teaches the young men in the CCC camp and gets to know Nate. They also work alongside other you...