Backtracking

by Long, Benjamin

• ISBN13: 9781570612466
• ISBN10: 1570612463
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Sasquatch Books

Summary

Ben Long and his wife quit their jobs and sold their house to set out as the newest pilgrims to backtrack the Lewis and Clark Trail. From the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, the author's mission was to check in on the wildlife that his famous predecessors so enthusiastically catalogued and recorded. From fearsome grizzlies to populous prairie dogs, with a living dinosaur thrown in (it lives at the bottom of the Columbia River!), Backtracking is an engaging adventure into the wilder parts of the American West.

Table of Contents

Reasonable and Prudent: An introduction	1	(12)
A Precious Pestilence: Black-tailed prairie dog	13	(26)
Grizzlies for the Twenty-First Century: Grizzly bear	39	(28)
The Land Wore One Robe: American bison	67	(24)
Darkness and Luck: Missouri River beaver	91	(20)
Fishing with the Ghost of Silas Goodrich: Westslope cutthroat trout	111	(18)
The Last Dancing Prairie: Columbia sharptail grouse	129	(14)
Bitterroot Ghost Forests: Whitebark pine and Clark's nutcracker	143	(28)
Playing God with God's Dog: Wolf and coyote	171	(22)
The Fish Most Skookum: White sturgeon	193	(24)
Downriver: Great Plains cottonwood	217	(22)
Notes on Sources	239	(2)
Acknowledgments	241	(2)
Index	243