Steven Bo Keeley is an American

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, naturalist, holistic healer,

veterinarian A veterinarian (vet), also known as a veterinary surgeon or veterinary physician, is a medical professional who practices veterinary medicine. They manage a wide range of health conditions and injuries in non-human animals. Along with this, vet ...

, professional athlete,

commodity market A commodity market is a market that trades in the primary economic sector rather than manufactured products, such as cocoa, fruit and sugar. Hard commodities are mined, such as gold and oil. Futures contracts are the oldest way of investin ...

consultant, garage publisher, and executive tour guide, who in 2000 left civilization for a desert burrow in southern California, then, in 2009, became a world-traveling

expatriate An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person who resides outside their native country. In common usage, the term often refers to educated professionals, skilled workers, or artists taking positions outside their home country, either ...

Early life

Keeley grew up in Idaho and Michigan, and graduated in 1972 with a DVM from

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

(MSU). His father was an electrical and later

nuclear engineer Nuclear engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of breaking down atomic nuclei ( fission) or of combining atomic nuclei (fusion), or with the application of other sub-atomic processes based on the principles of n ...

, and mother a

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activist as the family moved through fifteen cities in as many years to settle in

Jackson, Michigan Jackson is the only city and county seat of Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 33,534, down from 36,316 at the 2000 census. Located along Interstate 94 and U.S. Route 127, it is approxi ...

. Steven Keeley won the Jackson Junior

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Championship, and, at MSU, multiple

intramural sports Intramural sports are recreational sports organized within a particular institution, usually an educational institution, or a set geographic region. The term, which is chiefly North American, derives from the Latin words ''intra muros'' meaning " ...

championships for

Farmhouse FarmHouse (FH) is a social Fraternities and sororities in North America, fraternity founded at the University of Missouri on April 15, 1905. It became a national organization in 1921. Today FarmHouse has 33 active chapters and four associate ch ...

fraternity to place them first in the all-fraternity competition for the first time in 100 years. After

veterinary school Veterinary education is the tertiary education of veterinarians. To become a veterinarian, one must first complete a veterinary degree in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM , V.M.D. , BVS, BVSc, BVMS, BVM, cand.med.vet). In the United States and ...

he moved to California where a bureaucratic

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issue caused him to seek a sports career in professional

racquetball Racquetball is a racquet sport and a team sport played with a hollow rubber ball on an indoor or outdoor court. Joseph Sobek invented the modern sport of racquetball in 1950, adding a stringed racquet to paddleball in order to increase velo ...

and

paddleball Paddle ball is a one-person game played with a paddle and an attached ball. Using the flat paddle with the small rubber ball attached at the center via an elastic string, the player tries to hit the ball with the paddle in succession as many ti ...

, in which he gained national prominence.

Athletic career

Keeley was one of the top three racquetball players in the world from 1971 to 1976 and in the top ten until 1979, while winning seven NPA National

Paddleball Paddle ball is a one-person game played with a paddle and an attached ball. Using the flat paddle with the small rubber ball attached at the center via an elastic string, the player tries to hit the ball with the paddle in succession as many ti ...

Titles. Keeley won the National

Singles Championship in 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976 and 1977. He captured the National Paddleball Doubles Championship in 1974 with Len Baldori and in 1976 with Andy Homa. Keeley was the second player in history to win a Professional

Racquetball Racquetball is a racquet sport and a team sport played with a hollow rubber ball on an indoor or outdoor court. Joseph Sobek invented the modern sport of racquetball in 1950, adding a stringed racquet to paddleball in order to increase velo ...

Tournament after Steve Serot, when he defeated Charlie Brumfield 21-8, 21-17 in the finals of the NRC Long Beach Pro Am in October 1973. Keeley won the Canadian National

Singles Championship in November 1974 defeating Bud Muehleisen in the final. Keeley won his last Professional

Title in 1980 defeating

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21-5, 21-6 in the finals of the Voight Championship in Los Angeles. During his racquetball career, he defeated every US National Singles Champion from 1968–1982, and every professional champion of his era including ex-housemates

(Racquetball), Charlie Brumfield and Bud Muehleisen, as well as, Bill Schultz, Bill Schmidtke, Craig Finger, Davey Bledsoe and Mike Yellen. He became one of the game's foremost instructors and an author during the 1970s golden era with approximately 100 articles published in ''Ace'', IRA Racquetball, ''National Racquetball'' and other trade magazines. In 2002, he refused induction into the USRA Hall of Fame. where incumbent inductees credited him with instructing their games. He was the 2003 racquetball

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and

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for the Legends pro tour, and the same year co-invented (with Scott Hirsch) Hybrid Racquetball using a racquetball with wood paddleball paddles. He wrote what many have called the Bible of the sport, ''Complete Book of Racquetball'' (1976, 200,000 sold), and opened racquetball doors in every state, Central and South America with hundreds of clinics and exhibitions, once beating

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runner-up with a

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tennis shoe in a ''

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'' exhibition, and others with a seven-inch mini-racquet. Keeley was a stroke and strategy

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, and the first apparel-sponsored pro, flaunting multicolored Converse Chucks tennis shoes. He was featured in ''

'' and other publications as an unusual combination of athlete, intellectual, and 'flake.' Also a California B-division

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

champion, Keeley is the only player to consistently beat handball legend

Paul Haber Paul Haber (1937–2003) was an American one, three, and four wall National Handball champion. Haber is credited with being the first player to use the ceiling offensively and did so very effectively. He was inducted into the United States Handba ...

in mano a racqueta exhibitions. He started a silent

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fund of personal prize money plus contributions to bring rising East Coast stars to train at the racquetball mecca, Gorham's Sports Center in San Diego, California. In 2007 he was awarded the prestigious NPA Earl Riskey Trophy for contributions to the sport. Inducted into the NPA Hall of Fame in 2014

Author and publisher

Disenchanted toward the end of his career with a faster ball and oversized racquets, Keeley, in 1978, moved to an unheated garage on

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, Michigan, in a one year's self-experiment including not

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for 24-hours, sitting in a homemade

sensory deprivation Sensory deprivation or perceptual isolation is the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses. Simple devices such as blindfolds or hoods and earmuffs can cut off sight and hearing, while more complex devices can al ...

crate, a one-week water fast, reading books upside-down and

mirror writing Mirror writing is formed by writing in the direction that is the reverse of the natural way for a given language, such that the result is the mirror image of normal writing: it appears normal when it is reflected in a mirror. It is sometimes u ...

sleep deprivation Sleep deprivation, also known as sleep insufficiency or sleeplessness, is the condition of not having adequate duration and/or quality of sleep to support decent alertness, performance, and health. It can be either chronic or acute and may vary ...

, bladder control, induced

color blindness Color blindness or color vision deficiency (CVD) is the decreased ability to color vision, see color or differences in color. It can impair tasks such as selecting ripe fruit, choosing clothing, and reading traffic lights. Color blindness may ...

, riding a bike for 24-hours, and developing fluent

ambidexterity Ambidexterity is the ability to use both the right and left hand equally well. When referring to objects, the term indicates that the object is equally suitable for right-handed and left-handed people. When referring to humans, it indicates that ...

. He created a small publishing company, Service Press Inc., in the garage foyer and self-published two books in one day, ''It's a Racquet!'' and ''The Kill and Rekill Gang''. He has written eight books on sport, travel, and the maverick personality, including the 2011 ''Keeley's Kures'' of alternative treatments for common ailments from boxcars,

veterinary medicine Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in animals. Along with this, it deals with animal rearing, husbandry, breeding, research on nutri ...

, and world

healers Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or evidence from clinical trials. Complementary medicine (CM), complementary and alte ...

, while carrying on an informal e-mail practice.

American nomad

In the 1980s, Keeley started traveling, leading to many exceptional experiences: He rode a

boxcar A boxcar is the North American ( AAR) term for a railroad car that is enclosed and generally used to carry freight. The boxcar, while not the simplest freight car design, is considered one of the most versatile since it can carry most ...

from Jacksonville, Florida, to New York and borrowed a suit to dine with

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at the

Four Seasons Restaurant The Four Seasons Restaurant (known colloquially as the Four Seasons) was a New American cuisine restaurant in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City from 1959 to 2019. The Four Seasons operated within the Seagram Building at 99 Ea ...

. He railed on 360

freight trains Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers. A freight train, cargo train, or goods train is a group of freight cars (US) or goods wagons ( International Union of Railways) haule ...

as a "boxcar tourist" through the US, Canada and Mexico, and taught and wrote the textbook ''Hobo Training Manual'' for the first college

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

hobo class ''

Hobo A hobo is a migrant worker in the United States. Hoboes, tramps and bums are generally regarded as related, but distinct: a hobo travels and is willing to work; a tramp travels, but avoids work if possible; and a bum neither travels nor works. E ...

Life in America'' in 1985 at

Lansing Community College Lansing Community College is a public community college with its main campus in Lansing, Michigan. Founded in 1957, the college's main campus is located on an urban, site in downtown Lansing spanning seven city blocks approximately two block ...

. The graduating class traveled to

Britt, Iowa Britt is a city in Hancock County, Iowa, United States, and is the home of the National Hobo Convention and the Hobo Museum. The population was 2,044 at the 2020 census. History A train depot was built at Britt in 1870, with tracks running fro ...

, for the

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. During the late 1980s, "just for fun", he drove a Chevy van around the US with an invisible fish-line attached to a waving seven-foot stuffed rabbit riding next to him. Some additional exceptional experiences include: *playing

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

with U.S. open champion Art Bisguier *playing

pingpong Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

with world champ

Marty Reisman Martin 'Marty' Reisman (February 1, 1930 – December 7, 2012) was an American champion table tennis player and author. He was the 1958 and 1960 U.S. Men's singles champion and the 1997 U.S. hardbat champion. Table tennis career Reisman started ...

*matching wits against three-time ''

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'' winner Ira Brody *chatting with

Libertarian Libertarianism (from french: libertaire, "libertarian"; from la, libertas, "freedom") is a political philosophy that upholds liberty as a core value. Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, and minimize the state's e ...

presidential candidate

Harry Browne Harry Edson Browne (June 17, 1933 – March 1, 2006) was an American writer, politician, and investment advisor. He was the Libertarian Party's Presidential nominee in the U.S. elections of 1996 and 2000. He authored 12 books that in total have ...

*being visited by

Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...

of the Year 1989, Stan Mason *swapping travel tales with Investment Biker

Jim Rogers James Beeland Rogers Jr. (born October 19, 1942) is an American investor and financial commentator based in Singapore. Rogers is the chairman of Beeland Interests, Inc. He was the co-founder of the Quantum Fund and Soros Fund Management. He was ...

*hoboing with financial author

Doug Casey Douglas Robert Casey (born May 5, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer, speculator, and the founder and chairman of Casey Research. He describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist influenced by the works of novelist Ayn Rand. Early lif ...

*looking through a microscope with DNA discoverer

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*living one year in the stairwell of speculator

Victor Niederhoffer Victor Niederhoffer (born December 10, 1943) is an American hedge fund manager, champion squash player, bestselling author and statistician. Life and career Niederhoffer was born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family. His paternal grandfather Martin (M ...

*inventing Checkers Proverbs with world champ Tom Wiswell *flying with

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pilot-founder Art Tyde *being mentored under photographer

Art Shay Art Shay (March 31, 1922 – April 28, 2018) was an American photographer and writer. Biography Born in 1922, Shay grew up in the Bronx and then served as a navigator in the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II, during which he flew 52 bomber ...

*riding the rails with Hobo King Steam Train Maury Graham. Bo hobo drinking gatorade

In 1988 he guided a ''

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'' journalist to

Mount Shasta Mount Shasta ( Shasta: ''Waka-nunee-Tuki-wuki''; Karuk: ''Úytaahkoo'') is a potentially active volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. At an elevation of , it is the second-highest peak in the Cascades ...

for a story that won "

Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Gov ...

Best Sunday Feature". Later, a 2001 epic along the

First transcontinental railroad North America's first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the " Overland Route") was a continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail netwo ...

with four executives ended on

9/11/2001 The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial ...

. In 2005 he crossed Canada by rail with

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

n accountant Tom "Diesel" Dyson, and later that year the pair, disguised as Mexicans, rode atop freights with Central American immigrants through Mexico to the border, where the

US Border Patrol The United States Border Patrol (USBP) is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States' Customs and Border Protection and is responsible for securing the borders of the United States. According to its web site in 2022, its mission ...

apprehended them swimming the

Rio Grande The Rio Grande ( and ), known in Mexico as the Río Bravo del Norte or simply the Río Bravo, is one of the principal rivers (along with the Colorado River) in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The length of the Rio G ...

with expired Mexican

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. In the 1980s he was regularly in the National Hobo Association Los Angeles clubhouse and contributed to their ''Hobo Times'' newsletter. In 2010, ''

Fort Worth Weekly ''Fort Worth Weekly'' is an alternative weekly newspaper that serves the Greater Fort Worth area (all of Tarrant County and some of Denton County). The newspaper has an approximate circulation of 35,000. It is published every Wednesday and featur ...

'' Peter Gorman's "Renaissance on the Rails" profile won 1st place for the

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best feature of the year.

Finance

In the mid-1990s, Keeley turned to

commodities In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them. The price of a comm ...

where his financial

Low-Life A low-life (or lowlife) is a term for a person who is considered morally unacceptable by their community. Examples of people society often labels low-lives include aggressive panhandlers, bullies, criminals, drug dealers, freeloaders, hobos, ga ...

Indicators gathered around the world—such as cigarette butts being shorter in a down market—were seriously considered by

Wall Street Wall Street is an eight-block-long street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It runs between Broadway in the west to South Street and the East River in the east. The term "Wall Street" has become a metonym for t ...

investors and the press. He espoused his analytical methods at global banking seminars and he rode boxcars to speak on hobo

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

at the 1985 Aspen Eris Society and the 1995 New York Junto. A 1997 13-country tour to identify investment opportunities in

emerging markets An emerging market (or an emerging country or an emerging economy) is a market that has some characteristics of a developed market, but does not fully meet its standards. This includes markets that may become developed markets in the future or were ...

for speculator Victor Niederhoffer earned millions in Turkey, but in the Black Friday, October 27, 1997, mini-crash losses from buying Thai bank stocks that had fallen heavily in the

Asian financial crisis The Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East Asia and Southeast Asia beginning in July 1997 and raised fears of a worldwide economic meltdown due to financial contagion. However, the recovery in 1998–1 ...

combined with a 554-point single day decline of the Dow Index (the second largest decline to date in index history) forced the company to close its doors for a year, and ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'' took a swat at Keeley.

World traveler

Bo Keeley's unconventional life situation has resulted in numerous adventures, several noted in online publications online or in print: For example, ''Daily Speculations'', ''International Man'', ''

Liberty Liberty is the ability to do as one pleases, or a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant (i.e. privilege). It is a synonym for the word freedom. In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society fr ...

'' (1987), The Coffee Coaster and ''

Swans Swans are birds of the family Anatidae within the genus ''Cygnus''. The swans' closest relatives include the geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini. Sometim ...

'' Magazine have documented many of his exploits such as: *Journeying through the Mid-East during the

Gulf War The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key phases: ...

*A knife attack in

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

resulting in loss of thousands in

venture capital Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which ha ...

*A four-ft.-wide open mouth

hippopotamus The hippopotamus ( ; : hippopotamuses or hippopotami; ''Hippopotamus amphibius''), also called the hippo, common hippopotamus, or river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of only two extan ...

entering his

Lake Turkana Lake Turkana (), formerly known as Lake Rudolf, is a lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. It is the world's largest permanent desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake. B ...

pup tent *Being held captive at

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point by the Amazon Mayoruna *Guiding twenty Brazilian evangelists with a

penlight A flashlight ( US, Canada) or torch ( UK, Australia) is a portable hand-held electric lamp. Formerly, the light source typically was a miniature incandescent light bulb, but these have been displaced by light-emitting diodes (LEDs) since the ...

from a jungle bus crash *Chasing

rhinoceros A rhinoceros (; ; ), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. (It can also refer to a member of any of the extinct species o ...

horn

smugglers Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations. There are various ...

after being deputized and armed with a

pistol A pistol is a handgun, more specifically one with the chamber integral to its gun barrel, though in common usage the two terms are often used interchangeably. The English word was introduced in , when early handguns were produced in Europe, an ...

Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

*Being robbed behind the

Great Sphinx The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human, and the body of a lion. Facing directly from west to east, it stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, E ...

(and 99 other times around the world) *Surviving abandonment in the

Andes The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long, wide (widest between 18°S – 20°S ...

jacketless in winter *Having 150 close encounters with

rattlesnakes Rattlesnakes are venomous snakes that form the genera ''Crotalus'' and ''Sistrurus'' of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers). All rattlesnakes are vipers. Rattlesnakes are predators that live in a wide array of habitats, hunting small anima ...

*Petting the head of a

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

snake charmer Snake charming is the practice of appearing to hypnotize a snake (often a cobra) by playing and waving around an instrument called a pungi. A typical performance may also include handling the snakes or performing other seemingly dangerou ...

's 12-ft. King Cobra American

folk artist Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some kind, rather than being exclusively decorative. The makers of folk art are typically tra ...

Linda Mears features seven of his exploits in ''Adventure Art'' (1996). One painting called 'African Safari' where Keeley suffering

cerebral malaria Malaria is a Mosquito-borne disease, mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects humans and other animals. Malaria causes Signs and symptoms, symptoms that typically include fever, fatigue (medical), tiredness, vomiting, and headaches. In se ...

was nearly mauled by a lion, is sold as a

jigsaw puzzle A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of often irregularly shaped interlocking and mosaiced pieces, each of which typically has a portion of a picture. When assembled, the puzzle pieces produce a complete picture. In th ...

Iconic individualist

Keeley earned a

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

technical degree in 1985 from Lansing Community College, followed by one year of

volunteer work Volunteering is a voluntary act of an individual or group freely giving time and labor for community service. Many volunteers are specifically trained in the areas they work, such as medicine, education, or emergency rescue. Others serve ...

in six

psychiatric ward Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, dissociative ...

s and senior living facilities to study the developing

mind The mind is the set of faculties responsible for all mental phenomena. Often the term is also identified with the phenomena themselves. These faculties include thought, imagination, memory, will, and sensation. They are responsible for various m ...

. Keeley has been called 'one of the greatest individualists in America.' In 2007, he founded Executive Tour Services as a businessmen's

Outward Bound Outward Bound (OB) is an international network of outdoor education organizations that was founded in the United Kingdom by Lawrence Holt and Kurt Hahn in 1941. Today there are organizations, called schools, in over 35 countries which are att ...

on the American rails and hikes to

Spanish missions The Spanish missions in the Americas were Catholic missions established by the Spanish Empire during the 16th to 19th centuries in the period of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. These missions were scattered throughout the entirety of ...

Baja California Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ...

. "My life follows the vicissitudes of Buck the Dog in Jack London's Call of the Wild," he once explained, "From comfortable back yards across America, boxcars on every major

railroad Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

, 100+ countries under a backpack, hiking the lengths of Florida, Colorado, Vermont, California, Death Valley, and Baja, Mexico, to finally semi-retire and write my memoirs in a dessert burrow in California." (Long a devotee of grand storyteller Louis L'Amour, Keeley's hikes through the American West also led him to become an ardent fan of celebrated contemporary 'Western' writer Cathy Luchetti and her poignant, realistic portraits of pioneer life—such as ''Women of the West'', ''Children of the West'', ''Men of the West'', and ''Home on the Range: A culinary history of the American West''.) The burrow lies one mile east of the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range where a 2008 near-miss caved the entry that he shored with old mine timbers. Keeley was the resident advisor to neighbor Phil Garlington's book, ''Rancho Costa Nada: The Dirt Cheap Homestead''. In 2007, he became the first California substitute teacher to be fired for trying to prevent a playground 'skirmish.' He left to ride the rails, and then became an itinerant expatriate writing from select exotic locations including Iquitos, Peru, San Felipe, Baja California, San Felipe,

, and Lake Toba, Sumatra.Keeley, 'On the Heels of Darwin in Sumatra', International Man, March 11, 2011 http://internationalman.com/article-keely-20110310.php

Books

Bo Keeley has written the following books: *Keeley, Steven, ''The Complete Book of Racquetball'', DBI, 1976, *Keeley, ''It's a Racquet'', Service Press Inc., 1978, *Keeley, ''Racquetball Lessons Made Easy'', McDonald Pub., 1976 https://web.archive.org/web/20121109205933/https://picasaweb.google.com/bokeely/FotozLinkFcbk#5576430082379748962 *Keeley and Shannon Wright, ''Women's Book of Racquetball'', Contemporary Books, 1980, *Keeley, ''Stroke Minder'' Racquetball Flip Book Series, Stroke Minder Pub.,1978 *Keeley and Debbie Ravens, ''The Kill & Rekill Gang'' (Cartoon book), Service Press Inc. 1978 *Keeley, Steven Bo, ''Hobo Training Manual'', Burrow Books, 1986. *Keeley, Steven Bo, ''Keeley's Kures'', Free Man Publishing Co., 2011 (https://www.amazon.com/Keeleys-Kures-Alternative-world-champion-hobo-adventurer/dp/1461077737/) *Keeley, Steven Bo, ''Executive Hobo: Riding the American Dream'', Free Man Publishing Co., 2011 (https://www.amazon.com/Executive-Hobo-Riding-American-Dream/dp/1463676980/) *Keeley, Steven, ''Charlie Brumfield: King of Racquetball'', Service Press, 2013. *Keeley, Steven, ''Women Racquetball pioneers'', Service Press, 2013. *Keeley, Bo, ''The Longest Walk Companion: With George Meagon'', Service Press, 2013. *Keeley, Steven Bo, ''Racquetball's Best: Pros Speak from the Box'', Service Press, 2014. *Keeley, Bo, ''Stories from Iquitos'', Service Press, 2014. *Keeley, Steven Bo, ''Greatest Photos Around the World'', Service Press, 2014. *Keeley, Steven Bo, ''Chess and Sport'', Service Press, 2014. *Keeley, Steven Bo, ''Book of Bo: Gems of My Life'', Service Press, 2015. *Keeley, Steven Bo, ''Book of Bo: More Gems of My Life'', Service Press, 2015. *Keeley, Steven Bo, ''James Hydrick in Photos'', Service Press, 2015. *Keeley, Bo, ''Hobo Moments: 30 Years in Pictures'', Service Press, 2015. *Keeley, Steven, ''Advanced Racquetball'', Service Press, 2015. *Keeley, Steven Bo, ''Bill Schultz: Ringmaster of Sport'', Service Press, 2016. *Keeley, Steven Bo, ''Elvis' Humor: Girls, Guns & Guitars'', Service Press, 2016. *Keeley, Steven Bo, ''Slab City: Tales from an Outlaw Town'', Slab Press, 2017.

Notes

The following show some of the primary online publication sources for much of Bo Keeley's literary output: *Daily Speculations stories by Keeley http://www.dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/?cat=205 *Swans Commentary articles by Keeley http://www.swans.com/main.shtml *International Man posts by Keeley http://internationalman.com/corr-bokeely.php *Coffee Coaster Guest Columns by Keeley **http://www.brianrwright.com/Coffee_Coaster/06_Guest/2010/100526_Taxpayer_Keely.htm **http://www.brianrwright.com/Coffee_Coaster/06_Guest/2011/110221_Bo_Kures_1.html *'Memoirs',100 early stories at Daily Speculations http://www.dailyspeculations.com/keeley/hobo_index.html *Northbank Fred, 'Stories from Steve Keeley' http://northbankfred.com/stories.html *Keeley, 'Stories' http://bokeelytours.com/

External links

*Adventure Art by Linda Mears http://bokeelytours.com/art/index.html *Catman Chart http://internationalman.com/article-keely-20110312.php *Short Bio http://bokeelytours.com/stories/bio.html *Keeley Timeline http://www.dailyspeculations.com/keeley/keeley_timeline.htm *Executive Tour Services http://www.bokeeleytours.com *Catman Keeley http://www.catmankeeley.com/ *The Amazing and Possibly True Adventures of Catman Keeley https://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/01/bo-keeley-corporate-hobo-adventures

References

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