Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher: BANTAM (BDD)/RANDOM HOUSE, May 1998
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 0-375-75152-1
Synopsis
Written during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Badlands, these two wilderness tales endure today as part of the classic folklore of the West. Originally published in 1885, "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman" chronicles Roosevelt's adventures tracking a monstrous twelve-hundred-pound grizzly. Intro by Stephen E. Ambrose; 5x7 inches, 832 pgs.
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Written during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklore of the West. The narratives provide vivid portraits of the land as well as the people and animals that inhabited it, underscoring Roosevelt's abiding concerns as a naturalist.
Originally published in 1885, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman chronicles Roosevelt's adventures tracking a twelve-hundred-pound grizzly bear in the pine forests of the Bighorn Mountains. Yet some of the best sections are those in which Roosevelt muses on the beauty of the Bad Lands and the simple pleasures of ranch life. The British Spectator said the book "could claim an honorable place on the same shelf as Walton's Compleat Angler." The Wilderness Hunter, which came out in 1893, remains perhaps the most detailed account of the grizzly bear ever recorded.