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A Rock and a Hard Place Study Guide

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by Aron Ralston
About 50 pages (15,062 words)
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John Griffith is a member of Butch Cassidy's gang, the Wild Bunch. He has the marked characteristic of one blue eye and one brown eye. He is nicknamed "Blue John" by his first employer, where he worked as a cook for the Harris cattle operation. (read more)
      Prologue "Circulating with the Robbers Roosters"
      Chapter 1 "Geologic Time Includes Now"
      Chapter 2 "Beginnings"
      Chapter 3 "The Night Shift"
      Chapter 4 "How to Become a Retired Engineer in Just Five Short Years"
      Chapter 5 "Day Two: Failing Options"
      Chapter 6 "Winter Rhapsody"
      Chapter 7 "Day Three: 'Push on Till the Day"'
      Chapter 8 "I'm Goin' to Utah"
      Chapter 9 "Day Four: Out of Food and Water"
      Chapter 10 "Stirrings of a Rescue"
      Chapter 11 "Day Five: Trance Sanctuary"
      Chapter 12 "Firestorm"
      Chapter 13 "Day Six: Enlightenment and Euphoria"
      Chapter 14 "Homing In: "We Have His Truck"
      Chapter 15 "A Date with Destiny"
      Epilogue "A Farewell to Arm"

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