Growing up during WWII, Dick learns to hunt and fish to feed his family. His self-reliant spirit strengthens while selling blood to earn money for dental school. When his veins refuse to provide more blood money, he joins the Navy to pay for the remainder of graduate school. He steps from his role as an officer to that of a civilian and meets Mary, a gorgeous, intelligent woman with a sense of adventure. Together they build a loving family and fight to establish a cattle ranch and to claim a piece of wilderness for themselves, but will Dick be able to survive encounters with an alligator and unruly neighbors? Will the land they love be decimated by a big corporation?A powerful true story of survival and environmental stewardship, Impossible Quest, is an action-packed story of achieving a lifelong dream.