Autobiography 2nd Edition: The Five Million Mile Journey Hardcover – February 25, 2026

Buck J. Titsworth was born in 1947 as the ninth of ten children in rural Arkansas's Ouachita Mountains. Raised in poverty, he grew up watching his father support the family through hard labor, first on their small farm and later earning minimum wage loading timber in a pole yard. From those humble beginnings, Buck built an extraordinary life defined by resilience, ambition, and faith.He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering (Magna Cum Laude, University of Houston, 1970) and went on to a distinguished fifty-plus-year career in global engineering and construction. His work took him to more than eighty countries, accumulating over five million miles of travel and numerous relocations.This account of Buck's life provides insight into, and details of, both Buck's professional and family life from his origins in poverty to attaining relative prosperity, driven by his pride and ambition and aided by the privilege of having been born into the United States with the greatest opportunity in the world. His career included employment by more than ten different companies with more than thirty family relocations, including six to foreign countries on four different continents.The story follows Buck through involvement in hundreds of projects, collectively valued at over $100 billion, scattered across virtually every continent on Earth! His professional path included establishing new business presences and/or joint ventures in numerous countries while his family life survived through multiple marriages. The account also provides credit to Buck's various influencers, proponents, and mentors along his path to success.Later in life, Buck experienced a profound spiritual transformation, becoming "Born Again" at age seventy-one. Now retired near his hometown, he enjoys golf, family, and the blessings of four daughters, twelve grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, living each day grounded in faith and gratitude. Read more