This is a book for biophiles, people who love wild animals. It is an eclectic collection of thirteen original multilayered stories with interrelated themes-stories within stories-about grizzly bear, cougar, wolf, wolverine, bison, wild sheep, pika, and others. Centering on the Greater Yellowstone region and the Northern Rockies, they incorporate current issues, attitudes, conservation, science, history, natural history, and folklore, and range from whimsical to the informed scientific. Interwoven into each essay are unusual and little known facts and facets about the animal and its history....

An authenic and richly illustrated account of Jackson Hole's earliest settlers and cast of Old West characters: Native Americans, mountain men, government explorers, miners, outlaws, cavalry, posses, squatters, game poachers, and eccentric frontier figures. The Hole's "bachelor settlers" are profiled and pictured, and the valley's infamous frontier episodes recounted. Exploitation of abundant wildlife played a crucial role in settlement. The tools of the early-day settlers were rifles, traps, and poison. The plow, sun bonnets, and the family cow followed much later; as did also, recognition...

Darkness Follows Light is a love story, the story of Pattie and Earle: their courtship, romance, and extraordinary love. They married on a Teton mountain summit and honeymooned in romantic French Polynesia. Their shared passion for conservation and wilderness led them to remote corners of the globe tracking endangered species in Alaska, Ecuador, Madagascar, Tanzania, Uganda, and the Yellowstone backcountry. Pattie and Earle shared everything, even ill-fated illness. Both were afflicted. Their once enviable lifestyle disintegrated into the oppressive world of life-threatening cancer. After...