Book excerpt: Louis Porter born in Bangor Maine, back when the economic conditions were such that both parents were forced to work to survive as a family. The entire family moved to Skowhegan, Maine where I could fi nish high school. At an early age of seventeen, I joined the Merchant Marines and sailed on cargo ships to many European and South America ports over a two year period, married and enlisted in the U.S. Navy Air Force based in Corpus Christi Texas. Completed college work at Texas A&M with honors in Petroleum Engineering. Went to work with ARCO as a petroleum engineer and handled sales of the companys oil and gas products. Later, I formed Daleo Petroleum and began building underground storages to handle sales, storage facilities and set up pipeline distribution of all liquid gases like ethane & propane for Mid-America Pipeline. We were fi rst to put propane on the Chicago Cotton Exchange as a commodity. I became Bch & CEO of three separate public companies dealing in Rare Earth, Gold Mining, Drilling for oil in Canada and the United States. Brought President Ford to Canada for company meetings and traveled all over North & South America & Europe for business, hunting and fi shing. Beat President Ford out of $14 playing gin and made him sign the bills. I bagged a grizzly bear in British Columbia and caught many sail fi sh off Baja. Wrote & sold 5 novels over the internet as E-Books twenty five yrs. ago.