In Wild Men, Wild Alaska professional hunting and fishing guide and outfitter Rocky McElveen tells the stories of his own adventures as well as those of some of his well-known clients. The book takes readers directly into the Alaskan bush, and shares the intense challenges of a majestic wilderness that pushes a man to his limits.
It's a difficult but environmentally-conscious choice.
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Bats of the Rocky Mountain West: Natural History, Ecology, and Conservation
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Since antiquity, bats have been misunderstood and shrouded in mystery. Given misnomers such as fledermaus ("flying mouse") and murciegalo ("blind mouse"), these nocturnal flying mammals were even classified as primates by the great Carl Linnaeus, based on his knowledge of the anatomy of large Old World fruit bats. In this beautifully illustrated volume, bat specialist Rick A. Adams delves into bats' true nature and the roles these fascinating ledurblaka ("leather flutterers") play in the natural history and ecology of the Rocky Mountain West.
Bats of the Rocky Mountain West begins with a general discussion of bat biology and evolution as well as regional physiography and zoogeography. In addition, Adams describes—based on the results of extensive research—the behavior and ecology of the 31 species of bats found in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. Naturalists and biologists alike will benefit from the detailed species descriptions, color photographs and illustrations, distribution maps, and echolocation sonograms. Bats of the Rocky Mountain West is a unique and valuable reference for professional bat biologists, naturalists, and wildlife enthusiasts interested in the conservation and ecology of bats in the region.
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ennsylvania, 1822-the world beyond the Alle-ghenies, a place as distant in his mind as the moon, is about to open and swallow up young Sam Morgan. Although a callow and illiterate youth, Sam's ambition is to see the world, and do greater things than his native Pennsylvania backcountry will allow. He is also smart, daring, and good-humored. He has a knack for getting along with older and craftier companions, among them a wise halfbreed Delaware Indian, a gambler and flim-flam artist, a riverboat skipper, a one-time prostitute, and an assortment of trail-hardened roughnecks returned from trapping in the far-off Snowy Mountains. Key to the new life he is about to find, Sam has a love for the wilderness and workable, if vague ideas of how to survive in it. An authority on the fur trade era of the American West, Win Blevins opens his 'Rendezvous Series' with Sam Morgan's journey into the dangerous upper Missouri River country with a brigade of trappers to complete the first phase of his mountain education.
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Good historical fiction epic.......2006-08-14
So Wild a Dream starts off a little slow, but quickly picks up pace to become an exciting portrayal of the life of Sam Morgan, a naive teenager with a unquenchable thirst for adventure who, in the course of the book, becomes a veritable "mountain man." I enjoyed all the historical details and the fact that many of the characters and events are real.
A story of amazing courage, endurance, and resourcefulness.......2003-12-28
The first volume in the Rendezvous Series, So Wild a Dream is a thoroughly enjoyable tale of struggle and survival in the wilderness of the Great American West in the early 19th century.
The time is 1822. The protagonist is Sam Morgan, 18, who, bored with civilization and "following his wild hair," leaves his home in Morgantown, twenty miles up the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh, and sets out on an adventurous trek toward the Shining Mountains of his dreams.
In Part One, "Venturing Forth," Sam travels on a flatboat down the Ohio to Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, and up the Mississippi to St. Louis. He meets colorful characters (card sharks, con men, flimflam artists), visits shady places (taverns, booze dens, gambling halls, cathouses), and experiences barroom brawls and a mugging.
In Part Two, "Indian Country," Sam enters alien territory, where people are no longer "civilized" but are "savages," although Sam wonders if there is any real difference between the two.
Stalking that wily rodent, the beaver, Sam and his fellow fur traders meet Native Americans of various tribes, some friendly, some hostile: the Crow, the Sioux, the Cheyenne, the Snake, the Blackfeet, the Rees, the Bois Brules, and the Pawnee.
Sam falls in love with Meadowlark, a beautiful young Crow woman of the Gray Hawk family. The romance is cut short, however, when the expedition pushes on westward, where the voyagers face starvation in the snow-covered mountains and desperate combat with Indian warriors.
Part Three, "The Journey," is the best part of Blevins' tale. Separated from his companions, Sam struggles to rejoin civilization on a seven-week, seven-hundred-mile trek back to Fort Atkinson on the Missouri River. Along the way he finds a "bosom buddy" (literally) in Coy, a coyote pup, who shows him the only escape from the holocaust of a prairie fire.
Emerging from his baptism of ice and fire, the man who came to the end of the journey was not the same man who started out. Sam had become a mountain man, a man who, in Part Four, "The Return," is virtually a stranger to his family and friends.
So Wild a Dream is a story of amazing courage, endurance, and resourcefulness. To use Mr. Blevins' language, if I "know fat cow from poor bull," this novel is a winner; "it shines."
Win Blevins is an authority on the Plains Indians and the fur-trade era of the West. His rollicking tribute to the mountain man, Give Your Heart to the Hawks, remains in print thirty years after its first publication; his novel of Crazy Horse, Stone Song, earned several prestigious literary prizes; and such novels as Charbonneau, The Rock Child, and Raven Shadow have established him as among the best of writers of the West. He lives in Utah's Canyonlands with his wife, Meredith, also a novelist.
Roy E. Perry of Nolensville, Tennessee, is an advertising copywriter at a Nashville publishing house.
An adventure of the body and the spirit.......2003-12-16
A young man, Sam, follows the call to adventure given him by a Delaware Indian sitting by a mighty river. During his journey Sam learns love, fighting, the ways of Indians and the songs of mountains and rivers. But more than this, Sam learns his own heart, his strengths, his hopes and his fears. SO WILD A DREAM is a real page-turner packed with adventure. It's also a beautiful and poetic story of a spiritual adventure learned through trials and triumphs. Win Blevins once again creates a rich world with all the juicy stuff of living. A must read.
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In Walking Down the Wild Gary Ferguson offers a good-natured account of a 500-mile hike through the mountains and valleys and geyser fields that make up Yellowstone National Park and its environs. Anyone who has made a long trek will appreciate Ferguson's catalog of moleskin patches, fungicides, and mosquito repellents, but not many folks have had to figure out how to ward off bears every night (pee around your campsite, he advises), steer clear of the occasional cantankerous bull moose, and avoid stepping into steel- jawed traps. It's clear that Ferguson loves his self-appointed mission to protect the Yellowstone ecosystem, and he has a lot to say. "The horizon of the American West," he warns, "is framed more and more not by wild, ragged patches of stone and timber, but by clear-cuts and mine tailings, by housing developments, by oil derricks blazing in what only yesterday was a dark and secret sky."
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Something missing in this one.......2004-12-23
Nature enthusiast Gary Ferguson takes us on his extensive backpacking experiences through Yellowstone National Park. He introduces us to the people he meets and his companions, notes the spectacular wildlife and visages that he encounters, discusses some of the ecological issues facing Yellowstone, and gives us a look into the nuts and bolts of making decisions when hiking through the wild.
The Good and the Bad:
I enjoyed some of this book, but generally I found more to complain about than to praise. This book, while lacking in major faults, just seemed to have no spark of its own that would make reading it a requirement. I felt as if I'd heard each environmental discussion before, read similar descriptions of the park in other books, and was frankly skeptically annoyed at Ferguson's claims that encountering a moose bore spiritual meaning, one proof of which was the mystical departure of a cold after seeing a moose.
Ferguson displays an impressive knowledge of the species that he encounters, and I appreciated his willingness to note the wildlife, and to share interesting tidbits of information about everything from wildflowers to otters. For me, these areas were where the book was most successful.
But the overall tone gave me the impression that Ferguson perceives a world in which nature can only be truly understood by those in a special club who are willing to pay homage to the spirit of the land. Ferguson's desire to read meaning into ordinary encounters just rubbed me the wrong way, I suppose, and even now I'm struggling to put my finger on exactly what bothered me so much.
Don't waste your time.......2004-02-19
This is simply a disjointed journal of a series of short hikes with portions deteriorating to a lame account of car camping. This ranks as one of the worst books ever published. Don't waste your time.
Ferguson achieves mastery in nature writing........1998-06-05
This book belongs on the shelf next to Silent Spring and The Sand County Almanac. Ferguson writes with elegance and ease of his experiences in wild country in the Yellowstone area. It is a perfect companion for anyone planning a trip to that marvelous part of the nation. His vivid descriptions of his 500-mile trek through the area are always fascinating. He artfully weaves personal observations into the human history of the area and then into natural history as he argues eleoquently against the commercial interests intent on squeezing the last buck out of our country's vanishing wilderness.
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Alpine Flower Finder: The Key to Wildflowers Found Above Treeline in the Rocky Mountains
Loraine Yeatts , and
Janet L. Wingate
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