The Night of My Hanging (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781891423185)

Kirby Frank Jonas was born in 1965 in Bozeman, Montana. His earliest memories are of living far out of town in a wide crack in the mountains known as Bear Canyon. At that time, it was a remote and lonely place, but a place where a boy with an imagination could grow and nurture his mind, body and soul. From Montana, the Jonas family moved almost as far across the country as they could go, to Broad Run, Virginia, in Fauquier County, a place that, although not as deep in the timbered mountains as Bear Canyon, was every bit as remote. Once again, Jonas spent his time mostly alone, or with his older brother and sister, when they were not in school. He learned to hike with his mother, fish with his father, and to dodge an unruly horse-the hard way. It was here that he truly learned his love for the outdoors, for opossums snarling on late-night fence posts, copperheads and blacksnakes, bullfrogs, box turtles, bass and bluegills and whitetail deer. The Jonases moved to Shelley, Idaho, in 1971, and from that time forth, with the exception of brief sojourns in France and Arizona, Jonas became an Idahoan. Jonas attended all twelve years of school in Shelley, graduating in 1983. In the sixth grade, he penned his first novel, then called The Tumbleweed, and in high school he wrote his second, The Vigilante. Jonas has been employed as a Wells Fargo armored guard, a wildland firefighter in seven Western states, a security guard, and police officer. He is currently employed as a municipal firefighter for the city of Pocatello, Idaho. He and his wife, Debbie, live in Pocatello, where they raised their four children, Cheyenne Kaycee, Jacob Talon, Clay Logan and Matthew Morgan.