Bridging the Chasm is about two brothers, in love with the same girl as they go through adventures and trials spanning almost thirty years. It starts with the tremendous flood that created the Salton Sea in 1905, follows a battle in WW1 that credited the U. S. Marines as a separate fighting force in America, the battle of Belleau Wood. It ends in 1934 with all characters, both major and minor meeting at the construction of Hoover Dam and the build up of a city known as Las Vegas. We follow them through these periods and watch them develop along with minor characters through to the tumultuous ending where lives are lost and the two that should be together do not get together at the end.. It is fast paced with family adventure, danger, violence, humor, a little romance and history. The characters are fictional, the events happened in the past so I guess you could say it's semi-fictional. Sort of like a bridge between fiction and non-fiction.

Mark Wilkerson is a 17-year guide at Hoover Dam and a 20+ year veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces, having served in the Air Force, Army, and National Guard. After becoming disabled in 2015, he turned to writing, inspired by the absence of modern fiction about Hoover Dam.Drawing on his passion for history and extensive research into the 1905 Colorado River ood, the 1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, and the dam's construction in 1931, he began crafting a story that would span all three eras. What started as a short story evolved into a richly layered historical novella-its 13 chapters and three 13-year time jumps an unintentional but fitting symmetry. This is his debut work, honoring the remarkable achievements of those who came before the Greatest Generation.