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Book Synopsis Wild River Pioneers by : John Fraley
Download or read book Wild River Pioneers written by John Fraley and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its headwaters, the Middle Fork of the Flathead River flows 92 wild and scenic miles through the Bob Marshall and Great Bear Wildernesses and alongside Glacier National Park. It also flows through history, carrying the stories of explorers, trappers, prospectors, railroad builders and train robbers, moonshiners, hoteliers, horse packers, wilderness rangers, and more. Author John Fraley (Heroes of the Bob Marshall Wilderness; A Woman’s Way West; Rangers, Trappers, and Trailblazers) knows this river and its stories as well as anyone, and Wild River Pioneers is his collection of true tales about shootouts, grizzly bear attacks, a murder (and a hanging), secret caves, fortunes won and lost, a wily Josephine Doody bootlegging in Glacier National Park, and an ice cream–eating pet bear. • 20th Anniversary Edition updated with new information and images • Meticulously researched from primary sources and in-person interviews • Amply illustrated with historical photographs * 92 black-and-white photographs * 2 illustrations * 2 maps
Book Synopsis Wild River Pioneers (2nd Ed): Adventures in the Middle Fork of the Flathead, Great Bear Wilderness, and Glacier Np, New & Updated by : John Fraley
Download or read book Wild River Pioneers (2nd Ed): Adventures in the Middle Fork of the Flathead, Great Bear Wilderness, and Glacier Np, New & Updated written by John Fraley and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Montana retains much of its wild character, including big, unspoiled landscapes and grizzly bears, wolves, and mountain lions. Montanans themselves can also be wild characters, prone to less than civilized adventures. Perhaps no corner of the Big Sky exemplifies this double quality more than the Middle Fork of the Flathead River drainage. From its headwaters in the Bob Marshall Wilderness to the long run along Glacier National Park’s southern boundary, the Middle Fork defines “wild and scenic.” And its human stories are equally wild and epic. In Wild River Pioneers, you’ll find true stories of outlaw shootouts, grizzly bear attacks, a murder (and a hanging), secret caves, fortunes won and lost, the Cattle Queen of Montana, a wily Josephine Doody bootlegging liquor in Glacier National Park, and an ice cream-eating pet bear. This new second edition features additional photographs and updates on many of the characters and their final resting places. Come along to the top of the Great Bear Wilderness with the ashes of Betty the Trapper. The Bootleg Lady, Josephine Doody, is now a celebrity in Glacier’s folklore; learn the fate of her homestead in Glacier. And after nearly a century, Flathead County’s first sheriff, Big Joe Gangner, finally gets the monument and headstone he deserves. Come learn about Glacier National Park and the Great Bear Wilderness and a lot more." – publisher description.
Book Synopsis Rangers, Trappers, and Trailblazers by : John Fraley
Download or read book Rangers, Trappers, and Trailblazers written by John Fraley and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North, Middle, and South Forks of the Flathead River drain some of the wildest country in Montana, including Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. In Rangers, Trappers, and Trailblazers, John Fraley recounts the true adventures of people who earned their living among the mountains and along the cold, clear rivers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are the stories of the intrepid Glacier Park Ranger Clyde Fauley and his young family using a cable bucket to reach their isolated cabin across the Middle Fork, trapper Slim Link’s fateful meeting with a grizzly bear in the deep woods of the North Fork, and the life and times of Henry Thol, “the ranger’s ranger,” who happily snowshoed hundreds of miles through deep snows and minus-40 cold to patrol the South Fork wilderness. Tragedies and near-misses abound: a fatal shootout, tangles with bears and packrats, a devastating train wreck, and a missing airplane. But these are balanced with tales of courage, endurance, and remarkable personal achievement. Fraley tells all in intriguing detail wrested from primary sources.
Book Synopsis Heroes of the Bob Marshall Wilderness by : John Fraley
Download or read book Heroes of the Bob Marshall Wilderness written by John Fraley and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow author John Fraley as he traces the lives and times of past and present heroes of the Bob Marshall Wilderness, from old-timers like Joe Murphy, to Smoke Elser, and on to the present. Over the past century, these heroes have ridden, packed, and hiked from one end of the Bob to the other, and they’ve helped make the wilderness what it is today. You’ll ride along on horse and mule treks and wrecks, and discover the sport of trout wrangling. You’ll meet the fluorescent hunter, White River Sue, and the black-clad backpacker. You’ll battle packrats, fish-eating deer, tricky bears, and a tree-hugging criminal. Sit back and read about a dog rescue, smokejumper adventures, kids raised in the wilderness, and the first study of grizzlies in the Bob. Witness a tense moose-lassoing rodeo, and meet a backcountry rooster named Bob Marshall, the first live chicken to attempt a traverse of the Bob. The heroes in this book have ridden and hiked hundreds of thousands of miles through the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. Now, come along with them and celebrate their contributions, their challenges, and their fun times.
Book Synopsis A Woman's Way West: In and Around Glacier National Park, 1925-1990 by : John Fraley
Download or read book A Woman's Way West: In and Around Glacier National Park, 1925-1990 written by John Fraley and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After a string of personal tragedies, twenty-four-year-old Doris Ashley left her Iowa farm one June day in 1925 and rode the train west to Glacier National Park. So began her love affair with the wild Crown of the Continent--the rugged mountains and the equally rugged people who lived and worked there, the bears and beaver and elk, rushing rivers full of trout, and fat, free-for-the-picking huckleberries. Two years later, after a stormy romance, Doris married the Cut Bank park ranger, Dan Huffine, and through the next 60 years, they forged a happy if hard-won life based on their own wits and surprisingly varied talents. This is Doris' story"--
Book Synopsis My Wilderness Life: One Man's Search for Meaning in Montana's Wilderness by : John Fraley
Download or read book My Wilderness Life: One Man's Search for Meaning in Montana's Wilderness written by John Fraley and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wildlife biologist's journey of discovery through Montana's wilderness As young men, John Fraley and Terry McCoy were kindred spirits, drawn to Montana’s most remote, rugged, wild places. Tragically, one of them died young, his wilderness dreams cut short. The other went on to a forty-year career studying fish and furbearers in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. My Wilderness Life chronicles John Fraley’s lifelong love of all places wild and his obsession with uncovering what happened on the August 1974 morning when Terry McCoy’s airplane crashed in what would become the Welcome Creek Wilderness. Join Fraley on a frantic search to find his friend, and also on epic treks to traverse an impassable river canyon, snorkel with pure westslope cutthroat trout, retrace the footsteps of conservation icon Bud Moore, track lynx and mountain lions across the Great Bear Wilderness in winter, hike 42 miles through the Bob in a single day, and much more. At turns hilarious and heartbreaking, My Wilderness Life reveals how one man’s unfulfilled dreams can inspire another’s adventures. Wilderness risks and rewards come alive in first-hand accounts of daring escapades, solo treks, and a few foolhardy misadventures. An inside glimpse of the life of a fisheries biologist in the backcountry. Amply illustrated with 100 black-and-white photographs.
Download or read book Pioneers written by Rick Steber and published by Bonanza Publishing. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountain men and fur traders were the first to travel the route that would one day become the Oregon Trail. In their wake came missionaries who wrote letters and reports describing the far side of the continent and praising the mild climate, healthful conditions and the deep, fertile soil. Historians recognize 1843 as the official beginning of the Oregon Trail.That spring a group of a thousand land-hungry pioneers with 120 wagons and 5,000 head of cattle departed from Elm Grove, Missouri. Some of their wagons were abandoned along the Snake plateau but other were brought to the Columbia River where flat-bottomed boats were built and floated through the dangerous rapids of the Columbia Gorge to the Willamette Valley. It took the pioneers from early spring until late fall to reach the far west. They threw together shelters and subsisted that first winter on fish, game and the generosity of their neighbors, both white and Indian. Come spring they cleared ground, tilled the virgin soil and planted crops. The heyday of the Oregon Trail occurred after gold was discovered in California in 1848; it is estimated one-quarter million pioneers traveled overland on the Oregon Trail. From these early emigrants the social fabric of the West was woven. Within a few years communities were established and schools and churches were built. Then came stage lines, mail deliveries, railroads, telegraph wires and the other trappings of the white man's civilization.
Book Synopsis The Pioneers of the West by : William Peter Strickland
Download or read book The Pioneers of the West written by William Peter Strickland and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Yellow River Pioneers by : William Hiles
Download or read book Yellow River Pioneers written by William Hiles and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wild River, Wooden Boats by : Michael L. Gillespie
Download or read book Wild River, Wooden Boats written by Michael L. Gillespie and published by Great River Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every story we catch a glimpse of our shared human traits played out in different times and circumstances. It is for our benefit as well as their own that those pioneers faced the challenge of their frontier riven Wild River, Wooden Boats is their story -- and ours.
Book Synopsis Wild River Wilderness by : D. B. Wight
Download or read book Wild River Wilderness written by D. B. Wight and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On Fly-Fishing the Wind River Range by : Chadd VanZanten
Download or read book On Fly-Fishing the Wind River Range written by Chadd VanZanten and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With remote waterways and unpressured trout, Wyoming's Wind River Range is the backcountry fly angler's mecca. In the alpine lakes and streams, trout may approach a dry fly two or more at a time, and an angler can cast for days without seeing another person, let alone another angler. But more than just a place to catch lots of fish, the range is also a place to disconnect from noise and networks and reconnect with oneself. In a series of essays on misfortunate father-and-son backpacking trips, disaffected Boy Scouts, psychotropic deep-woods epiphanies and many other topics, author Chadd VanZanten offers not only a survey of the fishing and history of the Wind Rivers but a tour of personal landscapes as well.
Book Synopsis The Book of Pioneers by : Everett Titsworth Tomlinson
Download or read book The Book of Pioneers written by Everett Titsworth Tomlinson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Crooked River Rats by : Bernard McKay
Download or read book Crooked River Rats written by Bernard McKay and published by Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of men who worked the rivers in the Rocky Mountain Trench. Drift back in history to time when the rivermen still plied their trade through the northern rivers of BC. Crooked River Rats tells the tales of men and women who traveled the river highways living and working in the wilderness. Generations of trappers, hunters, big game guides and prospectors depended on the riverboat for their supplies. Using brute strength and strong will, these river pioneers endured much hardship as they opened up the northern bush. These are their stories. Today as motorists travel the John Hart Highway running north from Prince George they will see the Crooked River appear on the west side of the road. It is a very slow-running stream that is for the most part shallow and often very narrow. Yes, the river is unimposing and quiet now, but only fifty years ago this river was the only highway to the north and, as such, teemed with activity. All the freight to the north was carried along the Crooked, Pack, Parsnip, Finlay and Peace Rivers by long riverboat. The decades of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s were the heyday of the rivermen. These were the years when the price of wild fur was high. Roads had penetrated the headwaters of the Crooked and Pack Rivers by the 50s, but the country northward still was serviced mainly by riverboats until 1969 when Williston Lake was formed by hydro development, thereby cutting off the rivers. The communities and trading posts of McLeod Lake, Finlay Forks, Fort Graham and Fort Ware all depended on the river highways for their existence. Generations of trappers, hunters and big game guides, as well as independent prospectors depended on the boats for their supplies. These provisions would, in many cases, have to last and entire winter with freight being almost impossible to move during the November to April freeze up. The book begins with events that took place before the advent of motorized power, when river travel required simple, brute strength. I then continued with stories that took place through the 1920s and 30s when outboard engines arrived on the scene. Trappers and the trapping industry are what opened up all of Canada and this book would be remiss if these enterprising men were not given their due. I have included discussions on what life was like for the men and women who braved the rivers and the hardships of northern wilderness life. To this end, I have included excerpts from letters and diaries of the day that described the hardships these people faced, and accepted as almost routine, in their daily lives. These excerpts were copied as the original authors wrote them so none of their flavor would be lost. There are also true-life stories about gold seekers, big game guides and the missionaries who lived and thrived throughout the 40's, 50s and 60s. The last chapter of this book describes the enormous impact the Peace River Dam, completed in 1968, had on the area and its people. The men and women that lived and worked in this Rocky Mountain Trench area and particularly the rivermen themselves were a hardy lot. They were individualistic and resourceful in emergencies and they just loved to be living and working in the wilderness. These are their stories.
Book Synopsis Adventures of Pioneer Children, Or, Life in the Wilderness by : E. Fenwick Colerick
Download or read book Adventures of Pioneer Children, Or, Life in the Wilderness written by E. Fenwick Colerick and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pioneer Trail by : Alfred Lambourne
Download or read book The Pioneer Trail written by Alfred Lambourne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Pioneer Trail" by Alfred Lambourne. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Book Synopsis Pioneers of the Rocky Mountains and the West by : Charles Alexander McMurry
Download or read book Pioneers of the Rocky Mountains and the West written by Charles Alexander McMurry and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
