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Skillful Futures is a call-to-action for active parents, grandparents, community leaders, and educators. The book begins with the premise that "the pendulum has swung" to inspire parents to take a leadership role in creating multiple life-experiences early in their children’s lives.

Travelers and traders taking the Santa Fe Trail's routes from Missouri to New Mexico wrote vivid eyewitness accounts of the diverse and abundant wildlife encountered as they crossed arid plains, high desert, and rugged mountains. Most astonishing to these observers were the incredible numbers of animals, many they had not seen before - buffalo, antelope (pronghorn), prairie dogs, roadrunners, mustangs, grizzlies, and others. They also wrote about the domesticated animals they brought with them.