Shortly after retiring from a nearly four-decade career in business, I wrote a book about an early pioneer at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum (1890s to 1940s). Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The Improbable Career and Remarkable Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker chronicles the life of a self- taught naturalist who curated the museum's specimen collection of birds and mammals and successfully trained hundreds of young students who went on to become noted leaders in the field of natural history. The book was published by University Press of Kansas in April of 2019 and was selected as a 2020 Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas State Library Association, a 2020 finalist in the High Plains Book Awards, and won two Kansas Authors Club awards.
