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"The deep sandstone canyons, desert mesas, and ancient cliff dwellings of Bears Ears area hold pottery and projectile points, baskets and petroglyphs - and countless stories. For more than twelve thousand years, the wondrous landscape of southeastern Utah has defined the histories, cultures, and lives of everyone who calls it home. In Behind the Bears Ears, R. E. Burrillo takes readers on a personal journey of discovery through the narratives and...
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"Path of Light treks back through time as author and explorer Morgan Sjogren retraces the 1920s expeditions led by Charles L. Bernheimer into the heart of Glen Canyon and Bears Ears National Monument. Using journals and photographs from the expeditions to recreate these historic routes, Sjogren encounters powerful perspectives and stories about land management and human rights issues that carry forth into the present. Mindful of the pervasive effects...
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Few experiences in life are true adventures; even fewer are truly extraordinary. Rarely, very rarely are they both; where the past and the future collide in an unforgettable present moment. Where the senses, the intellect and the spirit and harmony in the experience. I hadn't imagined that an Alaska Peninsula bear hunt would be one of those adventures. I've experienced moments of truth when hunting-the rush of spotting game, the stalk, and the shot....
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Jay and his dad knew things would change after summer. The seasons of boy scouts, little league, high school sports, and just hanging out, would be gone forever. But there was a chapter left to write, and it would be written on a long section of the Alagnak River in Alaska. It wouldn't be the final chapter, not by a long stretch, but it would be a transcending chapter. A self-guided moose hunt and fishing trip would be a proper way to commemorate...
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My hunt for a Dall ram in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska became an epic adventure and stretched me beyond my limits, or so I thought. High on the rocky face of a steep mountainside, I found myself both physically and mentally spent. Exhaustion and confusion are a dangerous combination in a spot like that. Sweat stung my eyes and ran off my nose. My heartbeat pulsed in my ears and my arms and legs were limp with fatigue. I reached deep for a little...
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The grizzly is one of North America's few remaining large predators. Their range is diminished, but they're spreading across the West again. Descending into valleys where once they were kings, bears find the landscape they've known for eons utterly changed by the new dominant animal: humans. As the grizzlies approach, the people of the region are wary, at best, of their return. In searing detail, award-winning writer, Montana rancher, and conservationist...
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What is the true real life story behind the famous character "Natty Bumppo" in James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of famous novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales?
Why is Nathaniel (Nat) Foster Jr. (1766-1840), famous pioneer hunter and trapper in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York widely credited with being the model for Natty Bumppo?
Famous Adirondacks resident and historian A. L. Byron-Curtiss (1871-1959) has surprising answers to...
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Did the famous Blackfeet chief, Black Elk, uncover a mysterious water-dwelling cryptid in a river cave located in what is now Glacier National Park in Montana?
Adopted Blackfeet tribe member James Willard Schultz relates the suprising story as told to him by Chief Black Elk in his 1920 book "The Dreadful River Cave: Chief Black Elk's Story."
In relating how he first obtained Black Elk's true-life account of the mysterious river cave in Glacier National...
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J. W. Schultz (1859-1947) was an author, explorer, and historian known for his historical writings of the Blackfoot Indians in the late 1800s, when he lived among them as a fur trader. In 1907, Schultz published My Life as an Indian, the first of many future writings about the Blackfeet that he would produce over the next thirty years. Schultz lived in Browning, Montana.
"An Indian Winter, or With the Indians in the Rockies" is by a Rocky Mountain...
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"His account of the capture of wild beasts, especially of grizzly bears and their taming, of his experiences with Indians and hunters...make up an intensely thrilling narrative...describes his life for years with an enormous grizzly which he raised from a cub." -Boston Globe, Feb. 4, 1911
"Grizzly Adams, an odd but noble character and a tremendous hunter...for thrilling astonishing adventures...it can stand beside almost any hunting story ever published."...
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Return of the Grizzly tells the story of the successful effort to recover this large carnivore, the policy changes and disputes between bear managers and bear advocates, and for the first time, provides insight to what recovery means for the people who now live with grizzlies across a broad landscape. From cowboys on horseback chased by a charging grizzly, and grizzlies claiming game animals downed by human hunters, to the numerous self-defense killing...
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