Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
by Pete Fromm
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Author: Pete FrommEdition: Paperback
Published: 2003-10-01
ISBN: 0312422725
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Picador
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Book Review: I hope you like snow
Summary: 5 Stars
Hard to find many faults with this book. It had about everything a guy could want. Life in the Bitterroot mountains, a good dog, a little hunting and trapping and fishing, and lots of snow. This is a well told story of the romantic and somewhat serendipitous transition of a Midwest college kid from the life of a dorm rat to the life of a mountain goat. He has a friend, Rader, who pops in from time to time, and his faithful dog Boone, but otherwise is pretty much a hermit. The author does a great job of describing both the beauty and hardship of solitary mountain life without over dramatizing either. It is an easy read, but not without some depth, but mostly it is just good "escapist non-fiction". Even though he admits the book came from an expansion of a series he had written for an outdoor magazine, it never has the feel of being "padded".
Just as an aside, even though there is a bit of hunting and trapping, it's hardly a blood fest. Outside of his grouse hunting he took it pretty easy on the wildlife population of Idaho. That aside, I think you'll enjoy the read.
Summary of Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm’s account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West’s premier voices.
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