This informative picture book tells the story of the phasing out of horse-drawn fire engines as they were replaced with more cost efficient self-propelled fire engines in the early 1900's.
Civilization and its din invade the sanctuary of a barefoot boy and his mule who hunted fossils and listened to the wind before a Inn (orchestrated by one Mr. Shimmer, Professor Visionary) blossoms on his cliff at the End of the World.