My story is similar to Charles Dickenss, A Christmas Story, and profiles a Scrooge I knew in the Cheyenne River country east of Buffalo Gap. He was a cantankerous old cowboy who spent seven days a week in the saddle, and took a day off only on rare occasions and come to town to do business with my dad at the bank and throw down a couple beers at Frenchies saloon.

This book is a journey down memory lane as Bernie Keating eyeballs his many books. He provides a glimpse of each one he wrote during his fifty-year career as an executive of a multi-national company. The collected works include two early uncompleted novels followed by fourteen published works. His eclectic writing pursuits include science, frontier history, religion, music, economics, and several novels. They reflect the experiences of a lifetime as a cowboy, naval officer, manager, and family man.

This review of the history is a departure with more emphasis on key events and players and less on detail. It also incorporates the Asian past that is missing from many European-centered histories. Keating has published twenty books during his fifty-year career as an executive of a multinational company. His eclectic writing pursuits include science, frontier history, religion, music, and economics, bringing this broad perspective into his take on history.

A milestone of evolving technology during the 1950s that set the stage for the O-I worldwide dominance in the glass industry.

What do you do when you encounter a serious disease in your eighties? Bernie Keating researched the footprints of the illness, reacted, and then continued to write books.

Milestones: A Trip Down Memory Lane MILESTONES are markers placed along a road to provide reference points, and also used to identify an event marking a significant change in the life of person or a nation.

Bernie Keating has been a worldwide traveler through several careersnaval officer, executive, and tourist. He brings this broad perspective into an appraisal of a pivot to Asia. This is his fifteenth published book written during a fifty-year career as executive of a multinational company. His eclectic writing pursuits include science, frontier history, religion, music, economics, and several novels. They reflect the experiences of a lifetime.