Yellowstone National Park - Books

Frommer’s(R) Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, 4th Edition Eric Peterson From the Publisher: Frommers Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks is packed with all the facts, tips and descriptions you need to have perfect park vacation, in a pocket size guide: The most memorable park experiences, from Old Faithful and Mammoth Hot Springs, to Snake River raft trips. Great places to stay in and near the parks, ranging from historic lodges to family-friendly motels--plus a complete campground guide for each park. A fully illustrated nature guide to help you spot and identify bald eagles, bison, wildflowers, and more. The best hikes, from ranger-led interpretive walks to challenging backcountry overnights. What to see and do outside of the parks: rodeos, chuckwagon feeds, IMAX nature films, an elk preserve, Jackson Holes bars and boutiques, and more. Detailed, accurate park and trail maps Author Bio:Eric Peterson is a Denver-based freelance writer who has contributed to numerous travel publications, including Frommers National Parks of the American West, Frommers Texas, and Frommers Colorado. He also covers Colorados high-tech economy and punk-rock underground for local periodicals, makes a mean chicken chili, and hikes and treks through the Rockies as much as possible. List Price: $$10.99 Our Price: $9.89

Fire Flight John J. Nance From the Publisher: "Veteran pilot Clark Maxwell thought his fire bombing days were well behind him. But when Jerry Stein, Maxwell’s friend and airtanker fleet-owner, calls at the height of the fire season to beg him to reenter the war, he doesn’t hesitate. A pair of ferocious forest fires is raging out of control, threatening to destroy Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and incinerate thousands of area homes. As the wildfires spread, whipped by massive winds, and the federal forces arrayed against the fires reach their limits, anxiety grows in the local population. A paranoia plagues the fire bombers and smoke jumpers as well, after a mysterious string of violent airborne accidents among the airtanker fleet claims the lives of some of the most fearless and experienced veterans." Maxwell has long argued that the airtankers - old aircraft used by pilots to bomb the fires with fire retardant slurry - are faulty museum pieces that should have been grounded years ago. Now some of the fleet seem to be falling apart in midair. In the middle of the area’s worst wildfire season in history, Maxwell is convinced that a sinister cover-up is behind the rash of horrific air disasters. Were the planes’ inspection papers forged? Is someone capitalizing on these crashes? As he races to unravel a very real mystery and prevent a natural disaster of massive proportions, Maxwell’s probe reaches the upper levels of the very government agencies charged with mounting the aerial fire fighting effort - a move that for wholly unexpected reasons just may cost him his life ... and the life of Karen Jones, the married smoke jumper with whom he seems to have fallen in love. From The Critics: Publishers WeeklyNance’s latest aviation thriller (Pandora’s Clock; Turbulence) departs a bit from his successful formula of race-against-the-clock plotting and in-flight suspense. Instead, it plunges into the world of smoke jumping, with many intricate and intimate sequences featuring airborne firefighters at work. It’s a good trade-off. There is still plenty of suspense and high-stakes action, but the story is more character-driven and lighter on professional jargon, anchored by a romantic triangle and a whodunit. At the center of both is veteran pilot Clark Maxwell, called back into battle from the private sector by his slightly sleazy former boss Jerry Stein when multiple forest fires stretch the resources of the Forest Service and threaten local populations. Clark’s re-up with the service lands him in the orbit of feisty fellow smoke jumper Karen Jones, his longtime "fantasy pinup girl." Their mutual chemistry is undeniable, but nonstop firefighting-and, more important, Karen’s hot-tempered husband, Trent-stand in the way of romance. Troubles in the air begin when a last-minute switch puts hotshot pilot Jeff Maze aboard the Douglas DC-6 originally earmarked for Clark. The wings break off the plane in flight, killing Jeff and his co-pilot instantly. Jeff’s distraught girlfriend, Misty, holds some of the keys to the puzzle, which Clark determines to piece together. He suspects merely negligence, but when the same airborne fate nearly befalls pilot buddy Sam Littlefox, Clark concludes that it’s sabotage. But by whom, and for what purpose? With its lively cast and rich plot, this is Nance’s best book in years. (Nov. 11) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Library JournalIn his latest thriller, Nance (Turbulence) takes us into the world of airborne forest firefighters and the equally brave people who do battle on the ground. Fires are raging out of control in Yellowstone National Park, and planes from the aging fleet of water tankers are crashing. Veteran pilot Clark Maxwell has returned from retirement to help out-not only in his official capacity but also as an investigator in light of the recurring crashes. Where have the planes been over the preceding winter instead of having life-saving maintenance performed on them? Maxwell suspects a major cover-up. Despite a rushed and contrived ending, Nance has crafted an exciting and compelling story. Recommended for most popular fiction collections. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 7-03.]-Robert Conroy, Warren, MI Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. AudioFileA huge forest fire ranges out of control in Jackson Hole and Yellowstone National Forest. The fires are fought by brave pilots in ancient air tankers (converted from old passenger airliners) dropping chemical fire retardants and by fire jumpers who fight the fires on the ground. Clark Maxwell, a veteran pilot, watches as friends die when one plane’s wings fall off mid-flight and another crashes from mechanical neglect. Nance’s performance is best when he stresses the tension felt by the pilots and fire fighters as they battle the flames and their cantankerous, unreliable planes. Nance draws the listener into the story most effectively when he dramatizes the action. M.B.K. andcopy; AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine Kirkus ReviewsMixing white-knucklers (Headwind, 2001, etc.) with the occasional near-miss (Turbulence, 2002, etc.), Nance now takes up fighting the wildfires that yearly send up hundred of homes in flame. Turbulence, in its attempt to fashion the first passenger airline mutiny in history, presented readers with a flight attendant from hell and the looniest pilot since Leslie Nielsen, and forced its story into outrageous inconsistencies. As if to avoid such bent plotting, Nance now abandons the high and the mighty, gets straightforward and down to earth-although massive hysteria and some really bad guys do arise. Living legend and womanizing Jeff Maze has for years flown for Jerry Stein’s fleet of DC-5B, 45-year-old air tankers out of West Yellowstone, planes that need a whole winter’s repair after the way they get beat up during firefighting season. But Misty Ryan, Jeff’s lover of 12 years, knows Jeff’s been acting strange. Jerry Stein has brought Clark Maxwell out of a four-year retirement as a fire-retardant dropper. Jerry’s in a panic because the government may shut him down and itself take over firefighting, while Clark worries that after 17 years of dropping retardant from these worn-out planes, fate-statistically-is hunting him down. So he’s back low-dropping slurry through hellish canyons of smoke plumes, superheated air, and exploding trees. Nance rises quickly into danger mode as Clark finds half of his flight panel inoperable and fuel gauges unreliable. Then accidents in the tanker fleet multiply. What’s causing these disasters-and what’s Jeff Maze got to do with it? And why does Jerry Stein squirm when Clark demands that he fly as copilot in Clark’s rusty Tanker 88? Nance strives for nostyle like that of the early Richard Bach in Stranger to the Ground or of Ernest K. Gann in Fate Is the Hunter-in fact, the writing here at first feels hacked out and thriller-thin before it rises to blazing excitement. Our Price: $7.99

Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park Tim Cahill From the Publisher: "Lost in My Own Backyard brings author Tim Cahill together with one of his - and America’s - favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world’s first national park." Cahill stumbles from glacier to geyser, encounters wildlife (some of it, like bisons, weighing in the neighborhood of a ton), muses on the microbiology of thermal pools, gets spooked in the mysterious Hoodoos, sees moonbows arcing across waterfalls at midnight, and generally has a fine old time walking several hundred miles while contemplating the concept and value of wilderness. List Price: $$16.00 Our Price: $12.80

Ansel Adams: National Park Service Photographers Ansel Adams From the Publisher: A selection of breathtaking images of the American landscape fills this lavishly produced volume. In 1941 Ansel Adams was hired by the United States Department of the Interior to photograph America’s national parks for a series of murals that would celebrate the country’s natural heritage. Because of the escalation of World War II, the project was suspended after less than a year, but not before Adams had produced this group of breathtaking images, which illustrate both his early innovations and the shape of his later, legendary career as America’s foremost landscape photographer. The invitation to photograph the nation’s parklands was the perfect assignment for Adams, as it allowed him to express his deepest convictions as artist, conservationist, and citizen. These stunning photographs of the natural geysers and terraces in Yellowstone, the rocks and ravines in the Grand Canyon, the winding rivers and majestic mountains in Glacier and Grand Teton national parks, the mysterious Carlsbad Caverns, the architecture of ancient Indian villages, and many other evocative views of the American West demonstrate the genius of Adams’s technical and aesthetic inventiveness. In these glorious, seminal images we see the inspired reverence for the wilderness that has made Ansel Adams’s work a most enduring influence on the intertwining spirits of art and environmentalism, both so necessary for the preservation of our natural world. Other Details: 125 duotone illustrations 144 pages 10 1-4 x 10 1-4" Published 1995then gave to "outside consultants": $22.22 per day plus expenses. It was agreed that Adams would give his prints to the Interior Department but would retain control of the negatives so as to supervise their final printing, and that he would be free to pursue other personal or commercial projects while en route through the West. The Mural Project was the ideal assignment for Adams in 1941 because it would allow him to express many of his strongest, most defining convictions. The inextricable link between Adams’s art and his favorite subject-the American West-had first been forged in Yosemite National Park in 1916. Fourteen-year-old Ansel arrived in Yosemite on a family vacation away from his San Francisco home armed with his first camera, a Kodak Box Brownie. Amid the dark forests and sweeping mountain skyline, Adams fell in love with the wilderness and with his ability to capture it on film. He would return to Yosemite every year thereafter, eagerly photographing the new world he was discovering through his own eyes and the camera lens. Adams’s formal education ended when he graduated from the eighth grade. An exceptionally bright and active child, he did not thrive in the classroom but undertook his own pursuits with remarkable zeal. In 1915 his father gave him an unlimited pass to the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco; this was Adams’s classroom, and he was particularly taken with the art galleries and photographic displays. At the time, however, Adams’s primary interest was music, and he continued to train as a concert pianist until 1930, when a fortuitous encounter with the renowned photographer Paul Strand convinced him that photography, rather than music, was his true calling. A prodigiously talented pianist, Adams found similarities between music and photography very early on, and for some time he attempted to pursue both professions. Throughout his life he likened the tonal values in a photograph to musical notes. "The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance," he would say. His photographic career began in earnest in 1919, when he spent the first of many summers working in Yosemite, initially as custodian of the Sierra Club Lodge and then as a guide for the Sierra Club’s month-long treks through the parkland. Adams documented these outings and began developing his own aesthetic while photographing Yosemite’s glorious vistas. Ansel found love in Yosemite, too, for it was here that he met and eventually married Virginia Best, whose father ran Best’s Photographic Studio in the park. In 1937 Ansel, Virginia, and their two children moved to Yosemite, having inherited the studio from Virginia’s late father. Although Adams traveled a great deal, and would later settle in Carmel, California, Yosemite National Park remained his spiritual home. It was in Yosemite, marveling at the massive granite face of Half Dome under a moonlit sky or the arabesques of snow-covered tree limbs in the orchard (plate 1), that Adams became convinced of the importance of the wilderness. In the tradition of Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adams believed in the spiritually redemptive power of the untouched landscape, feeling that human beings best understand their world and themselves if they see themselves in proportion with, rather than in opposition to, nature. In his numerous letters and articles supporting conservation efforts, Adams consistently identified the "intangible qualities" of the wilderness as those values that must be safeguarded for future generations. He not only promoted the ecological benefits of environmentalism but also stressed that people have a profoundly spiritual need for nature. It was this spiritual connection between the Earth and its inhabitants that Adams sought to express in his photographs and that he hoped would convince others of the necessity of preserving national parks. The Mural Project offered Adams the chance to pursue these goals on a greater scale than ever before: by creating wall-size images of the national parks, he would share the beauty of the American land with the public while promoting conservation and exploring new technical and thematic approaches to his art. By the time Adams signed his contract with the Interior Department and headed toward Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park, 1941 had already been a landmark year for him. On New Year’s Eve, 1940, the first department of photography at a fine-arts institution had opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, largely owing to the efforts of Adams, curator and writer Beaumont Newhall, and philanthropist David McAlpin. Back in California, while teaching at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, Adams developed the "Zone System," a revolutionary method of regulating the exposure and development of negatives in order to maximize the photographer’s control of the final printed image. According to the Zone System, light is divided into eleven zones (zero is pure black, medium gray is five, and white is ten). After determining the range of contrast in the subject, the photographer assigns the areas of light and dark in the image to the appropriate zones and then exposes and develops the film according to the desired intensity of tone. This technical innovation, now a staple of photography, facilitated Adams’s aesthetic practice, which he termed "visualization." The basic component of Adams’s "expressive photography," visualization requires the photographer to capture his response to a particular scene, not simply reproduce the landscape before him. The fall of light, the play of shadows, the line of the horizon, the angle of a tree line or rock formation, should all express what the photographer feels about the view. Adams’s visualization was a working method derived from his beloved mentor Alfred Stieglitz’s credo that photographs are the visual equivalents of emotion and perception. The Zone System simplified and codified the technical steps necessary for the manipulation of light and shadow in a visualized image, and Adams used this system skillfully in the photographs he took for the Mural Project. The dark ravines in Adams’s views of the Grand Canyon (plates 24-25, 29-30, 37-40) have been rendered fathomless and awe-inspiring by the photographer’s own vision of how he saw-or rather interpreted-these massive, curving forms stretching out to a rocky horizon. Adams photographed certain areas over and over again, changing position, lens, or filter, or sometimes altering the horizon or the shadows only slightly, striving to capture the exact image (or images) in his mind. In his close-ups of the Grand Canyon, the ravines and rocks become almost abstract studies (plates 40-43); Adams was less interested in verisimilitude than in focusing on his own reactions to the world around him. The Mural Project photographs include several examples of nearly identical views of the same subject, suggesting both the depth of Adams’s response to these landscapes and his driving desire to fully document his vision. The dynamic, towering white sprays of water in the Old Faithful Geyser series (plates 144, 157-64) are at once incisive studies of a natural phenomenon at work, a photo essay on the modulations of light (the photographs were taken at various intervals at dawn and dusk), and an abstract rendering of a kinetic vertical form. Adams’s manipulation of light and tonal values produced some especially dramatic cloud-covered moutainscapes of Grand Teton National Park (plates 135-43), Rocky Mountain National Park (plates 122-23, 130), and Glacier National Park (plates 171, 180-82). In "Near Teton National Park" (plate 135) and "In Rocky Mountain National Park" (plate 123) thick, dark-shadowed clouds dominate the scene, stretching from foreground to background, pressing down on the landscape below. The enveloping blanket of clouds and fog in "In Glacier National Park" (plate 182) brings the viewer into immediate contact with the mountain range, heightening the viewer’s sense of being deeply connected to the land, the sky, and the elements. Clouds serve as effective backdrops in Adams’s sweeping panoramas, such as his well-known "The Tetons-Snake River" (plate 137) and his views of St. Mary’s Lake (plate 171), Logan Pass (plate 179), McDonald Lake (plates 184-86), and Two Medicine Lake (plate 183) in Glacier National Park. In these images, clouds fill out the horizon, complement snow-covered peaks, or balance shimmering water in the foreground. Light behind the clouds either softly illuminates the scene (plate 185) or pierces through the shadows in brilliant rays (plate 137), and the mountains’ rocky crags, the trees’ bristling branches, and the water’s rippling surface are all carefully delineated, forming a rich tapestry of textures. In these photographs each element is uniquely rendered and balanced within the whole, just as in music (as Adams might say) each note in a perfect chord is played with distinctive accuracy to achieve a harmonious overall sound. Such astounding detail was imperative in Adams’s panoramic views, for he believed that a photograph must be as "straight" as it is expressive. In 1932 Adams was one of the founders of the California-based f-64, a group of photographers that also included Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, who united to resist the prevailing pictorialist tradition in photography. The group took its name from the smallest aperture setting for the camera lens, the one that allows the greatest depth of Weld and thereby provides for extremely sharp detail in the final print. Adams and his f-64 peers wanted to create clear, straight photographs that resembled photographs, not the soft-focus images the pictorialists made, which tried to approximate the painterly effects of drawings or etchings. As true modernists, the f-64 photographers believed that no artwork should be modeled on or copied from the form of another, and therefore photographs should be evaluated solely within the terms of their own medium. Adams emphasized his commitment to "pure" photography in the proposal letter he sent to First Assistant Secretary Burlew at the Interior Department on August 10, 1941, when negotiations for the Mural Project were gaining momentum: Negatives from which the murals will be made should all be of consistent quality. A unified aesthetic point of view is of the utmost importance. A photograph, because of its intense realism, must be completely accurate in mood and factual relationships. . . . Photo-murals, because of the obvious limitations of the medium of photography, must be simpler-either purely decorative (like the screen in Secretary Ickes’s offce) or forcefully interpretive. I do not believe in mere big scenic enlargements, which are usually shallow in content and become tiresome in time. This devotion to accuracy is as evident in Adams’s close-ups as it is in his larger views. Pictures of leaves (plate 175), lichen (plate 176), ferns (plate 174), cactus (plate 83), as well as several studies of underground rock formations (plates 91, 100, 107-9) convey the same scientific precision and spiritual wonder that the expansive, endless landscapes offer. Adams believed passionately in a reflexive relationship between the Earth’s micro- and macrocosms-that all the marvels of creation are mirrored in its smallest elements; a single leaf or a tiny fragment of terrain illuminates the glories of nature as wondrously as the whole range of the Sierra Nevada. The Mural Project gave Adams the chance to expand on another of his favorite themes, man in relation to nature. In Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, Adams photographed the villages and ancient settlements of the Native Americans, illustrating, in part, how the Indians have lived in harmony with the environment. His photograph of the Canyon de Chelly (plate 48) shows the remains of an Anasazi village literally growing out of a stone cliff and nestled against a protective wall of streaked rock that curves gracefully, forcefully skyward. Abundant foliage fills a portion of the foreground, underscoring the organic connection between this past civilization and its ecosystem. The cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park (plates 53-57) are also seen as part of their mountainous environment; the simple rounded and rectangular towers dotted with windows look as ageless and inimitable as the rocky peaks and ravines near which they were built. In Adams’s photographs of the Indian villages at Walpi, Arizona (plates 71-72), and Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico (plates 69-70), the shadows cast by the buildings blend into the lines of the earth and rocks, and the crosses and towers reach into the sky, suggesting that the man-made is thoroughly integrated into the realm of nature. Adams’s photographs of freestanding buildings, such as "Church at Taos" (plates 58-59), and his figure studies of the Indians (the few examples of Adams’s talent as a portraitist that are included in this body of work) also indicate the photographer’s respect for the Indian way of life. Often, the subject is photographed from below, as in the portraits of Indian women with children (plates 51-52) and in the photographs of a tribal dance at San Idlefonso Pueblo (plates 63, 65-66); the viewer is being invited into the Indians’ space, from a distance. The Native American communities portrayed in these images are living close to the land, within their natural means, as Adams felt we all should. A member of the board of directors of the Sierra Club from 1934 to 1971, Adams joined-and often led-conservationists’ efforts to combat exploitation of resources and environmental abuses. His photographs of the orderly plowed and planted fields of Tuba City, Arizona (plates 73-74), and of sheep grazing peacefully on a hillside in Owens Valley, California (plates 75-76), illustrate the harmony he espoused among people, animals, and the land. Adams was also a pragmatist, and he recognized the needs of twentieth-century society. As part of the Mural Project he photographed the power unit at Boulder Dam, Colorado, capturing the immense technology at work from an artist’s perspective. Seen at close range, the soaring architecture of cones, tubes, rectangles, and lines (plates 113-14) recalls the photographs of skyscrapers that many of Adams’s urban counterparts, such as Berenice Abbott, were taking in metropolitan areas about the same time. When photographing the power unit in its mountain landscape (plates 110, 115-16), Adams could not resist heightening the drama of the natural scene by rendering the mountains an almost impenetrable black, the sky filled with shadowy clouds. The range of contrast in these and so many of the Mural Project images reveals the artist’s superb sensibility; his photographs translate black, gray, and white into a full spectrum of vivid tones. As a proponent of what he termed "appropriate use" of public lands, Adams eagerly sought compromises or alternatives to the overdevelopment of the national parks. He vehemently opposed promoting the parks as recreational centers; those who were truly attuned to the values of the wilderness would visit them without commercial inducement to do so. In Adams’s Mural Project photographs, visitors appear only in a few of his images of the stunning stalactites and stalagmites in Carlsbad Caverns. These people seem diminutive next to the massive, bubbled rock formations lit with theatrical intensity in the underground darkness; they stare with quiet wonder at the mystery that surrounds them, itinerant travelers passing briefly through eternal Nature. Society’s potentially destructive intrusion into the wilderness is hinted at in only two of the Mural Project photographs: "Roaring Mountain, Yellowstone National Park" (plate 165) and "Burned Area, Glacier National Park" (plate 170). It is possible that these photographs are just records of natural phenomena, but the barren trees, many of them with charred, lifeless trunks, contrast eerily with the verdant hillsides and sparkling waters in Adams’s other photographs of these parks. While images of damaged earth are common among today’s landscape photographers, Adams’s world represents an idealized American wilderness; through his eyes we see the national parks as protected refuges of nature. These two pictures were not the best candidates for the Interior Department’s murals, but Adams was a thorough, tireless worker; he photographed nearly every vista along this historic journey. Unfortunately, we will never know which of Adams’s 225 Mural Project photographs would have decorated the walls of the Interior Department. His trip through Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana during the early summer of 1942 was his last foray into the national parks under the aegis of the government. The Mural Project was cancelled at the end of the 1941-42 fiscal year because of the country’s escalating involvement in World War II following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Adams wanted very much to contribute to the war effort, and he attempted to convince the Interior Department that the Mural Project was a worthy, patriotic cause: "I believe my work relates most efficiently to an emotional presentation of ’what we are fighting for,’" he wrote to Assistant Secretary Burlew on December 28, 1941. Adams’s efforts were futile, however, although the government did pay for developing all pictures taken by June 30, 1942. In November Adams sent 225 signed exhibition prints to the Interior Department; the negatives were put in a vault at Yosemite, where Adams intended to supervise the final printing of those selected as murals once the war was over and funds were available. But Ickes left office shortly after the war ended, and the Mural Project was never revived. In 1962 the prints were transferred from the files of the National Park Service at the Interior Department to the National Archives, where they are now kept. The whereabouts of the negatives is a mystery, however; they are missing from the Yosemite offices, and no trace of them has yet been found. We can only speculate which view of Yellowstone’s Jupiter Terrace, which rim of the Grand Canyon, which section of the Snake River’s winding path would have been exhibited in Washington as wall-sized commemorations of the majestic, spectacular, and sublime aspects of the American West. Adams must have looked forward to printing on this large scale, as he had made relatively few murals: a wintry orchard scene in Yosemite (plate 1), which was exhibited at the 1935 San Diego State Fair, and a few folding mural-screens, such as the one bought by Secretary Ickes in 1937. We do know from Adams’s proposal letter that he had definite ideas about what kind of images would be appropriate as murals, and he certainly succeeded in choosing subjects that fit his aesthetic criteria; the prints he submitted include striking "decorative" close-ups and profoundly "interpretive" landscapes. Although the Mural Project was short-lived, it shaped Adams’s ensuing career and enduring reputation. Determined to continue photographing the national parks and monuments, Adams kept traveling across the country. In 1946 he received the first of two grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, and he used them to photograph America’s protected wilderness areas from Maine to Alaska. His pictures of the national parks are arguably his most famous; today American audiences identify Ansel Adams as the legendary photographer who immortalized our natural heritage with untempered reverence. The Mural Project was the genesis of this achievement. It is increasingly difficult to recognize Adams’s America in our own surroundings; the Earth has been subjected to much greater development and defilement since these almost Edenic images were made. Inspired by Ansel Adams’s prophetic vision of a world well worth preserving, perhaps we may yet see the fate of our civilization mirrored in what remains of our treasured wilderness. Alice Gray From The Critics: BooknewsA cheap collection of many of Adams’ famous photos. Printing this bad obscures the great photographer’s artistry. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Our Price: $17.98

Frommer’s Montana and Wyoming (Frommer’s Complete Travel Guides Series) Eric Peterson From the Publisher: You’ll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer’s. It’s like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go—they’ve done the legwork for you, and they’re not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer’s Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You’d be lost without us! In this exceptionally detailed and in-depth guide, our resident authors take you outdoors for gorgeous hikes, wildlife viewing, thrilling white-water rafting, world-class downhill skiing, horseback riding, and more. From authentic dude ranches to stunning Western-style BandBs to secluded campgrounds, they’ve chosen the very best places to stay throughout the region, in all price ranges. With Frommer’s Montana and Wyoming in hand, you’ll see all the highlights, from glorious vistas of the Tetons to the eerie expanses of Little Bighorn, from lush valleys that hold blue-ribbon trout streams to the majestic elk and buffalo herds of Yellowstone. List Price: $$17.99 Our Price: $16.19

Outdoor Family Guide to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks Lisa Gollin Evans From The Critics: BooknewsAmericans are volunteering more than ever before, and this collection of insights from 12 geriatric professionals helps activity directors plan and manage volunteer programs, broadening their understanding of what motivates people to volunteer. The presentations advise on planning topics in nursing homes, management styles, programming in a religious and intergenerational context, and describe successful volunteer activity models using cooking, gardening, fitness programs, and a particularly interesting reciprocal volunteer project between homeless persons and nursing home residents. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) List Price: $$14.95 Our Price: $13.45

National Geographic: Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks Road Guide Jeremy Schmidt Our Price: $8.95

Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in Our First National Park Lee H. Whittlesey Our Price: $16.95

Hidden Montana: Including Missoula, Helena, Bozeman, and Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks John Gottberg From the Publisher: No state in America suits the Hidden guides’ philosophy better than Montana. Still relatively untouched by mega-resorts, tourist-packed traffic jams, and ersatz ski villages, Montana offers friendly travel facilities nestled in lost expanses of wilderness. Since 96% of all visitors drive into the state, the author carefully maps out the state’s many highways and country roads while describing the adventures found along the way. Hidden Montana covers historical attractions like the battlefield where General Custer made his infamous "last stand" and describes numerous ghost towns where Old West legends haunt abandoned buildings. It then leads readers through the state’s American Indian reservations with helpful advice on how to both enjoy and honor Native American culture. This guidebook shows the way to over 70 parks, reserves, and wilderness areas. Truly two guides in one, Hidden Montana serves as both a travel guide and an outdoor adventure handbook. Veteran travel writer John Gottberg Anderson recommends dozens of small inns where the proprietors combine modern comforts with outdoor activities such as wildlife viewing, fishing, and biking. Detailed reviews of Montana’s best outdoor outfitters for river running, downhill skiing, cross-country skiing, horseback riding, and even pack trips are included. Our Price: $15.95

Best Easy Day Hikes Yellowstone Bill Schneider From the Publisher: Yellowstone National Park is one of the great outdoor destinations on the planet, with spectacular vistas, intriguing geology, and abundant and varied wildlife. This updated and revised edition, published in a convenient, pocket-size format, describes 30 of the best day hikes in the park. Our Price: $7.95

Hidden Wyoming: Including Jackson Hole, Grand Teton, and Yellowstone National Park John Gottberg From the Publisher: Like other guidebooks in the Hidden series, Hidden Wyoming reviews the popular attractions — such as Jackson Hole, the quiet ranching community transformed into a collection of million-dollar alpine resorts — then invites readers to go further by exploring "hidden" spots other guides overlook such as Gros Ventre River Ranch with its inexpensive log cabins, nearby summer fly-fishing streams, and winter snowshoeing trails. Travel writer John Gottberg is equally comfortable describing a ride down a stretch of white water, the atmosphere at an exclusive resort, or the history of an Old West mining town, making him uniquely qualified to lead visitors through the state’s amazing landscape of high mountain peaks, alpine lakes, hot springs, ghost towns, and lost bits of wilderness. This guide covers Wyoming’s Wild West heritage, listing 18 Indian museums, ten trading post craft shops, and four cowboy museums. Over four dozen parks and wilderness areas are described including information on camping, hiking, boating, and horseback riding. Our Price: $15.95

Hidden Idaho (Hidden Guide Series): Including Boise, Sun Valley, and Yellowstone National Park Richard Harris From the Publisher: Selective recommendations and opinionated reviews lead you to pioneer history in Idaho Falls, alpine chalets in Sun Valley and rafting runs on the Snake River. Our Price: $14.95

Hiking Yellowstone National Park, 2nd Edition William Schneider From the Publisher: Lace up your boots and sample more than 100 hikes in America’s most famous national park. Geysers, paint pots, and glowing blue pools; deep canyons with plunging waterfalls; broad river valleys with seemingly endless views; and tall rugged mountains -- Yellowstone National Park is a hiker’s paradise with more than 800 miles of trails. Let veteran hiker and outdoor writer Bill Schneider guide you on a wide variety of day hikes and extended backpacking trips into the vast interior of this national treasure. Whether you’re a day-tripper or a long-distance hiker, old hand or novice, you’ll find trails suited to every ability and interest in Yellowstone National Park. Our Price: $16.95

Day Hikes Yellowstone: 54 Great Hikes Robert Stone From the Publisher: DAY HIKES IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK is a concise guide to 54 of the best day hikes in this magnificent park. The hikes include thundering waterfalls, geysers, hot springs, high mountain lakes, cascading rivers, meadows and panoramic views. These day hikes will take you to incredible scenery and natural features found nowhere else on earth. The hikes are easy to moderately strenuous, accommodating every level of hiking experience. (5 1-2 x 7 1-2, 120 pages, bandw maps) Our Price: $9.95

Lonely Planet Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks Bradley Mayhew Our Price: $19.99

Fire Flight John J. Nance From the Publisher: "Veteran pilot Clark Maxwell thought his fire bombing days were well behind him. But when Jerry Stein, Maxwell’s friend and airtanker fleet-owner, calls at the height of the fire season to beg him to reenter the war, he doesn’t hesitate. A pair of ferocious forest fires is raging out of control, threatening to destroy Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and incinerate thousands of area homes. As the wildfires spread, whipped by massive winds, and the federal forces arrayed against the fires reach their limits, anxiety grows in the local population. A paranoia plagues the fire bombers and smoke jumpers as well, after a mysterious string of violent airborne accidents among the airtanker fleet claims the lives of some of the most fearless and experienced veterans." Maxwell has long argued that the airtankers - old aircraft used by pilots to bomb the fires with fire retardant slurry - are faulty museum pieces that should have been grounded years ago. Now some of the fleet seem to be falling apart in midair. In the middle of the area’s worst wildfire season in history, Maxwell is convinced that a sinister cover-up is behind the rash of horrific air disasters. Were the planes’ inspection papers forged? Is someone capitalizing on these crashes? As he races to unravel a very real mystery and prevent a natural disaster of massive proportions, Maxwell’s probe reaches the upper levels of the very government agencies charged with mounting the aerial fire fighting effort - a move that for wholly unexpected reasons just may cost him his life ... and the life of Karen Jones, the married smoke jumper with whom he seems to have fallen in love. From The Critics: Publishers WeeklyNance’s latest aviation thriller (Pandora’s Clock; Turbulence) departs a bit from his successful formula of race-against-the-clock plotting and in-flight suspense. Instead, it plunges into the world of smoke jumping, with many intricate and intimate sequences featuring airborne firefighters at work. It’s a good trade-off. There is still plenty of suspense and high-stakes action, but the story is more character-driven and lighter on professional jargon, anchored by a romantic triangle and a whodunit. At the center of both is veteran pilot Clark Maxwell, called back into battle from the private sector by his slightly sleazy former boss Jerry Stein when multiple forest fires stretch the resources of the Forest Service and threaten local populations. Clark’s re-up with the service lands him in the orbit of feisty fellow smoke jumper Karen Jones, his longtime "fantasy pinup girl." Their mutual chemistry is undeniable, but nonstop firefighting-and, more important, Karen’s hot-tempered husband, Trent-stand in the way of romance. Troubles in the air begin when a last-minute switch puts hotshot pilot Jeff Maze aboard the Douglas DC-6 originally earmarked for Clark. The wings break off the plane in flight, killing Jeff and his co-pilot instantly. Jeff’s distraught girlfriend, Misty, holds some of the keys to the puzzle, which Clark determines to piece together. He suspects merely negligence, but when the same airborne fate nearly befalls pilot buddy Sam Littlefox, Clark concludes that it’s sabotage. But by whom, and for what purpose? With its lively cast and rich plot, this is Nance’s best book in years. (Nov. 11) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Library JournalIn his latest thriller, Nance (Turbulence) takes us into the world of airborne forest firefighters and the equally brave people who do battle on the ground. Fires are raging out of control in Yellowstone National Park, and planes from the aging fleet of water tankers are crashing. Veteran pilot Clark Maxwell has returned from retirement to help out-not only in his official capacity but also as an investigator in light of the recurring crashes. Where have the planes been over the preceding winter instead of having life-saving maintenance performed on them? Maxwell suspects a major cover-up. Despite a rushed and contrived ending, Nance has crafted an exciting and compelling story. Recommended for most popular fiction collections. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 7-03.]-Robert Conroy, Warren, MI Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. AudioFileA huge forest fire ranges out of control in Jackson Hole and Yellowstone National Forest. The fires are fought by brave pilots in ancient air tankers (converted from old passenger airliners) dropping chemical fire retardants and by fire jumpers who fight the fires on the ground. Clark Maxwell, a veteran pilot, watches as friends die when one plane’s wings fall off mid-flight and another crashes from mechanical neglect. Nance’s performance is best when he stresses the tension felt by the pilots and fire fighters as they battle the flames and their cantankerous, unreliable planes. Nance draws the listener into the story most effectively when he dramatizes the action. M.B.K. andcopy; AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine Kirkus ReviewsMixing white-knucklers (Headwind, 2001, etc.) with the occasional near-miss (Turbulence, 2002, etc.), Nance now takes up fighting the wildfires that yearly send up hundred of homes in flame. Turbulence, in its attempt to fashion the first passenger airline mutiny in history, presented readers with a flight attendant from hell and the looniest pilot since Leslie Nielsen, and forced its story into outrageous inconsistencies. As if to avoid such bent plotting, Nance now abandons the high and the mighty, gets straightforward and down to earth-although massive hysteria and some really bad guys do arise. Living legend and womanizing Jeff Maze has for years flown for Jerry Stein’s fleet of DC-5B, 45-year-old air tankers out of West Yellowstone, planes that need a whole winter’s repair after the way they get beat up during firefighting season. But Misty Ryan, Jeff’s lover of 12 years, knows Jeff’s been acting strange. Jerry Stein has brought Clark Maxwell out of a four-year retirement as a fire-retardant dropper. Jerry’s in a panic because the government may shut him down and itself take over firefighting, while Clark worries that after 17 years of dropping retardant from these worn-out planes, fate-statistically-is hunting him down. So he’s back low-dropping slurry through hellish canyons of smoke plumes, superheated air, and exploding trees. Nance rises quickly into danger mode as Clark finds half of his flight panel inoperable and fuel gauges unreliable. Then accidents in the tanker fleet multiply. What’s causing these disasters-and what’s Jeff Maze got to do with it? And why does Jerry Stein squirm when Clark demands that he fly as copilot in Clark’s rusty Tanker 88? Nance strives for nostyle like that of the early Richard Bach in Stranger to the Ground or of Ernest K. Gann in Fate Is the Hunter-in fact, the writing here at first feels hacked out and thriller-thin before it rises to blazing excitement. Our Price: $25.00

Wolf Stalker Gloria Skurzynski Annotation: Twelve-year-old Jack, his younger sister, and the family’s teenage foster child Troy go to Yellowstone National Park, where Jack’s mother, a wildlife veterinarian, is investigating the report that wolves reintroduced to the park have killed a dog there. From the Publisher: The first National Parks Mystery combines science and survival techniques in a thrilling tale of suspense set amidst the natural wonders of Yellowstone National Park. It’s off to a fast-paced start when someone shoots and wounds Silver, one of the wolves recently reintroduced into the park. Color photos. From The Critics: Children’s Literature - Donna FreedmanThe first in a series of mysteries set in America’s national parks, Wolf Stalker is a real page-turner that should appeal to both boys and girls. The protagonists are 12-year-old Jack Landon, his younger sister, Ashley, and Troy Haverson, the unpredictable teen-aged boy who’s living with the family as a foster child. Jack and Ashley’s mom, a veterinarian, is called in to help with a wolf controversy in Yellowstone National Park. Troy is obsessed with finding his own mother, who has gone missing-yet he finds himself identifying with a wolf that’s been shot by a sniper. The three kids use their wits to survive a night in the snowy wilds, and help prove that the most dangerous animals in the park may not be the wolves, but the humans. Librarians and teachers who have trouble getting boys to read should recommend this book; odds are that once they start reading they won’t put it down. Parents of girls will be glad to note that 10-year-old Ashley pulls her own weight throughout the adventure. School Library JournalGr 5-8Jack Landon, 12, and his younger sister, Ashley, accompany their veterinarian mother and photographer father to Yellowstone Park. Mrs. Landon has been called in to investigate an incident in which a hunting dog was purportedly chased onto park land and killed by a pack of wolves. The family dynamics are complicated by Troy, a troubled teen who is in the temporary foster care of the Landons. Due to miscommunication and unforeseen circumstances, the young people end up spending a freezing night alone in the wild. Arrogant and condescending, Jack tries to assume control of the group, but Troy has his own agenda. Ashley, annoyed by her brother’s attitude, asserts herself, and Jack finds that he must cooperate rather than dominate. The kids witness the shooting of a wolf and fear that the armed man may still be around. Throughout the night, they stay with the wounded wolf around a fire and talk and tell stories. In the morning, they are rescued and each has been affected by the ordeal. The wolf is saved and the mystery of the stalker is solved. This exciting book emphasizes the natural beauty and dangers of the wild. It includes several pages of full-color photos and facts about the Wolf Restoration Project and the nature of wolves. A new mystery series gets off to a great start.Marlene Gawron, Orange County Library, Orlando, FL Our Price: $5.95

Fly Fishing the Madison Craig Mathews From the Publisher: Shop owner, guide, and acclaimed author Craig Mathews averages 70 days a year on his home water, the Madison, and over the past several decades has mastered the ways of this famous, but complicated, fishery. The Madison can hatch a different insect every fifty yards and ranges from a glassy spring-fed river to a tumbling, rapid-filled torrent that defies conventional fly-fishing approaches. Mathews shares his experience on the Madison and unlocks the river’s mysteries in this third volume in Greycliff’s River Series, Fly Fishing the Madison. Hatch charts, key patterns, effective techniques - it’s all here. This section-by-section guide to the water will provide the information you need to make the difference on your Madison River fly-fishing trip. Our Price: $16.95

Buffalo Medicine April Christofferson From the Publisher: Tension is running high in Big Sky country over the controversial slaughter of buffalo that wander outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park and onto land where cattle graze. At the heart of the dispute is "brucellosis," a dangerous disease that could devastate the cattle industry-and be transmitted to humans.Veterinarian Jed McCane is working on a new vaccine that could wipe out the disease. It never occurs to him that anyone could feel threatened by his research--until someone tries to kill him. The attack brings an unlikely ally into his life: an activist from Buffalo Nation, a group determined to stop the slaughter of America’s last free-roaming bison. It also devastates Jed’s world: who are his friends? Who are his enemies?Why would anyone object to a vaccine that could wipe out brucellosis forever? Jed must find the answer before time runs out, for both the buffalo and the safety of the world’s food supply. From The Critics: KLIATT - Claire Rosser Written by an author who is a lawyer with a background in veterinary medicine, this tale of the clash of ranchers and environmentalists in Montana is frightening and believable. The main character is Jed, a veterinarian working near Yellowstone Park, whose main clients are the ranchers. He is also independently doing research, trying to develop a vaccine for a virus to which the cattle are susceptible. Ranchers are furious about the presence of bison and wolves in the park and are trying to preserve their own way of life. They see the environmentalists as enemies, so when Jed’s research stymies their plans to blame the bison for infecting their cattle, they will do anything to stop him. Jed, who has been on the side of the ranchers and in fact is engaged to a woman who is one of the most influential ranchers in the community, slowly becomes converted to the environmentalists’ point of view. The final showdown is gripping, especially for those readers who would be horrified at the thought of mass slaughter of all the bison in Yellowstone Park. This is an adult book, with swearing that is realistic for the amount of anger and frustration among the characters. It will certainly be of interest to YAs familiar with the seemingly endless conflicts in the West that center around land use. It’s a good story that puts the reader in the midst of a struggle larger than the individuals involved in the plot. KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2004, Tor, 373p., Ages 15 to adult. Our Price: $7.99

Yellowstone Wolves in the Wild James C. Halfpenny Our Price: $19.95

Photographer’s Guide to Yellowstone and the Tetons Joseph K. Lange Our Price: $14.95

Paradise for RVers: The Greater Yellowstone--Grand Teton Region William R. Lassey From the Publisher: Paradise for RVers: The Greater Yellowstone--Grand Teton Region is a comprehensive guide for RV enthusiasts contemplating a trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. The region is among the most magnificent spots in the world, and is well worth exploration. RVers have the advantage of locating in glorious campgrounds close to nature and in close proximity to all of the major sights.Authors Bill and Marie Lassey have been traveling by RV to this region nearly every summer for the past 30 years, and offer a world of experience and insight to prospective visitors. They share their intimate knowledge of:beautiful gateways to the Parksmost important sights to seediverse wildlife desirable campgroundssupplemental resources, such as Internet websites, publications, and telephone numbers, that provide additional details about places and activities of specific interest. Paradise for Rvers is packed with essential and invaluable information for RVers who want to fully appreciate the glorious gateways and magnificent features of these extraordinary national parks. Our Price: $15.95

Fly Fishing the Yellowstone in the Park Bob Jacklin From the Publisher: The Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park is known widely for two things: the spectacular Yellowstone Falls and a couple of miles of premium dry-fly fishing recognized among the initiated as world class. In truth, this river offers these things and much more. In this volume, West Yellowstone outfitter, guide, and fly shop owner Bob Jacklin and universally respected fly fisher Gary LaFontaine reveal just how much more. Calling on his thirty-two years of experience, Jacklin covers the river from Yellowstone Lake to the Park boundary, describing each important section, key hatches, essential fly patterns, and effective fishing techniques. To this, LaFontaine adds all the things he’s learned over twenty years fishing the Yellowstone and shares the fly patterns he finds most effective. Fly Fishing the Yellowstone in the Park, the fourth volume in the Greycliff River Series, is a must-read for successfully tapping all the Yellowstone has to offer the fly angler who wants to make the most of fishing one of the nation’s most outstanding waters. Included are a hatch chart, a list of popular flies, and recipes for 27 fly patterns that catch fish on the Yellowstone. From The Critics: Joan WulffThe combination of Bob Jacklin’s passion for fly fishing and his wealth of knowledge of the Yellowstone makes this book the ultimate guide for the Yellowstone River. Lefty KrehIf anyone is qualified to write a book of fishing the Yellowstone River in the Park, it is Bob Jacklin. You couldn’t find a nicer guy or a better reference. Our Price: $12.95

Roadside Geology of the Yellowstone Country William J. Fritz From the Publisher: Covers all roads in Yellowstone National Park and all major roads leading to the North, East, and West entrances to the park. Our Price: $12.00

The Yellowstone Fly-Fishing Guide Craig Mathews From the Publisher: This fine little guidebook to the best fishing in Yellowstone Park discusses aquatic and terrestrial insect emergences and activity periods, fly patterns to imitate these insects, and effective fishing techniques. Included are specific locations, access points and trailheads, distances, and terrain descriptions. The handy icons located at the beginning of each of the more than two hundred waters discussed provide helpful, at-a-glance information about fish type, ease of access, and wildlife to watch for. This book is required reading for any fly fisher planning a trip to Yellowstone Park - an area that holds more wild trout water for its size than anywhere else in the world. (6 X 9, 176 pages, bandw photos, maps, illustrations, charts, icons) Our Price: $16.95

Ansel Adams: Our National Parks William A. Turnage (Editor) Annotation: In the century since the establishment of the world’s first national park at Yellowstone, no individual has rivaled Ansel Adams in his unceasing effort--through both his photographs and writings--to support the philosophical essence and practical evolution of the "national park idea." Now, in an original paperback, here are his greatest images of more than 40 national parks and monuments. 78 duotones. From The Critics: Library JournalIllustrated primarily with familiar Adams images, many of which have appeared in one monograph after another, this volume doesn’t offer any fundamentally new insights into the photographer’s work. It does, however, remind us of his deep involvement with a number of national parks in addition to Yosemite. Beautiful duotone reproductions of the 78 photographs, an informative introduction, and selections from Adams’s correspondence regarding national parks further enhance the book, whose smaller format (812 x 9) gives it a delicate, quietly thoughtful air. Given the care of the editing and the quality of reproduction, this paperback offers real value. Recommended for public and academic libraries as supplementary material on Adams, national parks, and conservation.-- Raymond Bial, Parkland Coll. Lib., Champaign, Ill. Our Price: $21.95

Who pooped in the Park? Yellowstone National Park Gary D. Robson Our Price: $9.95

Wolves Nancy Gibson From the Publisher: A splendid introduction to the wolves of the world from the naturalist of the Emmy-award-winning PBS show Newton’s Apple. Wolves is unique in its discussion of wolves of Europe and Asia along with North American wolves. Nancy Gibson provides an overview of the two wolf species remaining in the world today--red wolf and gray wolf--along with their subspecies. She details the natural history of wolves, including evolution, diet, pack structure, territory, body language, howling, and more. Gibson also introduces lupine lore, and summarizes historical attempts to destroy the wolf along with recent recovery efforts like that of Yellowstone National Park. More than 50 color photos of wolves from around the world supplement the text. Wolves will appeal to anyone looking for an insightful introduction to this popular wild creature. Discover the world’s animals in the WorldLife Library from Voyageur Press. This highly acclaimed series brings you the latest research from leading naturalists, along with stunning color photographs of your favorite animals. From The Critics: Minnesota VolunteerWolves is a colorful, informative book that should stimulate further interest in the wolf. Our Price: $16.95

Wolf Stalker Gloria Skurzynski Annotation: Twelve-year-old Jack, his younger sister, and the family’s teenage foster child Troy go to Yellowstone National Park, where Jack’s mother, a wildlife veterinarian, is investigating the report that wolves reintroduced to the park have killed a dog there. From the Publisher: The first National Parks Mystery combines science and survival techniques in a thrilling tale of suspense set amidst the natural wonders of Yellowstone National Park. It’s off to a fast-paced start when someone shoots and wounds Silver, one of the wolves recently reintroduced into the park. Color photos. From The Critics: Children’s Literature - Donna FreedmanThe first in a series of mysteries set in America’s national parks, Wolf Stalker is a real page-turner that should appeal to both boys and girls. The protagonists are 12-year-old Jack Landon, his younger sister, Ashley, and Troy Haverson, the unpredictable teen-aged boy who’s living with the family as a foster child. Jack and Ashley’s mom, a veterinarian, is called in to help with a wolf controversy in Yellowstone National Park. Troy is obsessed with finding his own mother, who has gone missing-yet he finds himself identifying with a wolf that’s been shot by a sniper. The three kids use their wits to survive a night in the snowy wilds, and help prove that the most dangerous animals in the park may not be the wolves, but the humans. Librarians and teachers who have trouble getting boys to read should recommend this book; odds are that once they start reading they won’t put it down. Parents of girls will be glad to note that 10-year-old Ashley pulls her own weight throughout the adventure. School Library JournalGr 5-8Jack Landon, 12, and his younger sister, Ashley, accompany their veterinarian mother and photographer father to Yellowstone Park. Mrs. Landon has been called in to investigate an incident in which a hunting dog was purportedly chased onto park land and killed by a pack of wolves. The family dynamics are complicated by Troy, a troubled teen who is in the temporary foster care of the Landons. Due to miscommunication and unforeseen circumstances, the young people end up spending a freezing night alone in the wild. Arrogant and condescending, Jack tries to assume control of the group, but Troy has his own agenda. Ashley, annoyed by her brother’s attitude, asserts herself, and Jack finds that he must cooperate rather than dominate. The kids witness the shooting of a wolf and fear that the armed man may still be around. Throughout the night, they stay with the wounded wolf around a fire and talk and tell stories. In the morning, they are rescued and each has been affected by the ordeal. The wolf is saved and the mystery of the stalker is solved. This exciting book emphasizes the natural beauty and dangers of the wild. It includes several pages of full-color photos and facts about the Wolf Restoration Project and the nature of wolves. A new mystery series gets off to a great start.Marlene Gawron, Orange County Library, Orlando, FL Our Price: $15.00

Yellowstone Erwin A. Bauer From the Publisher: Using their own unique perspective, the Bauers show readers the many facets of Yellowstone, from tourists gazing at Old Faithful to serene fly fishing at Trout Creek. They also touch on Yellowstone’s past, including highlights about the founding of the world’s first national park, and discuss the future of the park in the face of grave threats to the its ecosystem. This revised edition includes an update on the park’s recovery from the fires of 1988, as well as new information on the reintroduction of wolves and the wolves’ impact on other Yellowstone wildlife. The Bauers, who have been exploring the park for more than forty years, know the park like no others. Their photos take readers off the beaten path and reveal the wild beauty of a park that, though many visit, few truly explore. About the Authors: Erwin and Peggy Bauer, of Sequim, Washington, have photographed and written about the animals and natural wonders of the world for more than forty years, winning many national and international awards for their stunning wildlife portraits. They have more than a dozen books in print, including Big Game of North America, Whitetails, Mule Deer, Antlers: Nature’s Majestic Crown, and Bears, all published by Voyageur Press. From The Critics: Publishers WeeklyText and 100 color photographs combine here to give the reader a magnificent perspective on Yellowstone Park. Erwin Bauer has been entranced by Yellowstone since his first visit in 1935; with his wife, Peggy, he has explored the park in all seasons, sometimes under hazardous conditions. A brief history of Yellowstone, our first national park, is followed by a description of the landscape. After introducing the wildlife, the Bauers discuss the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), which includes Grand Teton National Park, three national wildlife refuges and large portions of seven national forests. The authors describe backcountry trails, rivers and streams, fires (they photographed the 1988 blaze) and winter in Yellowstone Park. For first-time visitors or old hands, this volume is an incomparable memento. (May) BooknewsInformative text and full-page color photos profile the many facets of the popular national park. The Bauer husband-wife team (he wrote the text; they both did the photos) are well-established, frequently published, award-winning wildlife photographers who have been exploring Yellowstone for four decades. This edition is a revision of the 1993 publication. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com) Our Price: $19.95

Day Hikes Around Yellowstone National Park Robert Stone From the Publisher: Yellowstone National Park is a magnificent area with beautiful, dramatic scenery and incredible hydrothermal features. Within its 2.2 million acres lies some of the earth’s greatest natural treasures.Day Hikes in Yellowstone National Park includes a thorough cross-section of eighty-two hikes throughout this national park. Now in its fourth edition, the guide includes all of the park’s most popular hikes as well as a wide assortment of secluded backcountry trails. Many hikes lead to hot springs, bubbling mud pots, steaming fumaroles, and geysers (including Old Faithful) that are predominant throughout the park. Several hikes explore the rim and interior of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, a 1,200 foot deep chasm cut by the Yellowstone River. Highlights include thundering waterfalls, unusual thermal features, expansive meadows, alpine lakes, secluded canyons, and 360-degree vistas of the park. All levels of hiking experience are accommodated, from level boardwalk trails to mountainous treks up to panoramic overlooks. Each hike includes a detailed map, accurate driving and hiking directions, distance-time-elevation statistics, a list of relevant maps, and summaries to help hikers find a trail appropriate to their ability and desire.Companion hiking guides include Day Hikes in Grand Teton National Park, Day Hikes Around Bozeman, and Day Hikes in the Beartooth Mountains. List Price: $$12.95 Our Price: $11.65

Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone Gary Ferguson From the Publisher: "Wildness is something best measured in the dark. On black, moonless nights when the horizon goes limp, and every scratch and thud and snap of branch outside the tent touches off spot fires in your brain. Sort of like now. The sow grizzly is back again, circling, gulping down the dark and blowing it out again through her nose." So begins Gary Ferguson’s tale of his three-month odyssey at Hawks Rest in the heart of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.Beginning with a hundred-mile hike to reach Hawks Rest, Ferguson recounts his adventures observing grizzly bears, tracking wolf packs, and encountering other wildlife in what is now the largest intact ecosystem in the temperate world. Along the way he meets an intriguing array of backcountry hikers, park rangers, elk hunters, outfitters, and wildlife biologists all grappling with the challenges of preserving this magnificent slice of wilderness. Personal, poignant, and often gripping, Hawks Rest celebrates "this profusion of things fierce and vast and thrilling" as it chronicles the stresses that threaten America’s most beloved wilderness lands. From The Critics: The Los Angeles TimesA good book about wilderness is like an Irish wake; it fortifies you against the loss. Mournful and defiant as a wolf howl, Hawks Rest is an eloquent tribute to a threatened place and its lone protectors. andmdash; Frank CliffordLibrary JournalMany would agree that the Yellowstone National Park that nature writer Ferguson teaches us about in this gentle book contains the most remote wilderness left in the lower 48 states. That said, it is surprising to learn of the eclectic people whom he encountered: well-heeled hunters, troubled inner-city kids, and such unique individuals as Lone Eagle Woman and park ranger Action Jackson. Of course, some of the main characters include elk, grizzly bears, and wolves. Where there are animals that can be hunted or that may turn and hunt humans and-or their livestock, there are controversies, politics, and disagreements. Ferguson gives us an evenhanded view of both sides of these complex issues. Written in an agreeable style, this book belongs in all Yellowstone and Wyoming collections. Recommended for larger public libraries, and environmental and nature collections should also consider. (Map not seen.)-Nancy Moeckel, Miami Univ. Libs., Oxford, OH Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Our Price: $15.00

Rockhounding Wyoming Kenneth Lee Graham From the Publisher: Although the rockhounding treasures are many in this vast and sparsely populated state, author Kenneth Graham points out that ’sometimes the joy is in the search itself.’ The 75 sites described in this guide will take you across the red desert to the high mountain majesty of the Big Horns and Wind Rivers as well as the geologic wonders of Yellowstone National Park. Graham, a former hardrock miner, developed an interest in rocks at an early age, and he shares his enthusiasm for rockhounding and his appreciation for the diverse Wyoming landscape that holds the treasure. Each description provides detailed information complete with maps on how to find the remote as well as popular digs, what will likely be found there, the tools to bring, the best season to visit, the appropriate vehicle to drive, or when to lace up your hiking boots to get to those out-of-the-way places. Be sure to take along Rockhounding Wyoming to plan your next rockhounding adventure. Our Price: $12.95

It Happened In Yellowstone Erin H. Turner From the Publisher: You’ve seen the geysers and waterfalls, the mudpots and mountains, in one of the most magnificent places in the world. Now read the stories from the history of Yellowstone National Park. From the wild adventures of early park visitors to the massive fires of 1988, It Happened in Yellowstone provides a quick tour through the history of this amazing area. Twenty-four stories give a behind-the-scene look at some of the extraordinary events that took place in this park. You’ll marvel at one man’s struggle to survive thirty-seven days alone in Yellowstone, laugh at a little boy’s pranks on unwary tourists, and watch as wolves are tentatively reintroduced to the park. Early visitors called this place ’Wonderland,’ and the natural wonders here are only some of the highlights of Yellowstone’s entertaining history. Yellowstone National Park has many wondrous stories to tell, and this book offers some of the best. (6 X 9, 112 pages) Our Price: $9.95

The Geysers of Yellowstone T. Scott Bryan Our Price: $23.95

100 Miles around Yellowstone Park Jim Zumbo From the Publisher: This beautifully illustrated book will appeal to travelers interested in exploring Yellowstone as well as outdoor activities within an easy two hours’ drive. The authors include the nuts- and-bolts information on campgrounds, RV parks, dining suggestions, and medical services. Our Price: $34.95

Yellowstone Bear Stories Paul D. Schullery (Editor) From The Critics: BooknewsA collection of first-hand accounts of the park’s famous residents by explorers and hunters, naturalists, and tourists (including one US president--T. Roosevelt), from 1880 to 1950. The editor, a Yellowstone bear expert, provides commentary and context. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Our Price: $14.95

Frommer’s Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, 3rd Edition Eric Peterson From the Publisher: Frommer’s Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks is packed with all the facts, tips and descriptions you need to have perfect park vacation, in a pocket size guide:The most memorable park experiences, from Old Faithful and Mammoth Hot Springs, to SnakeRiver raft trips. Great places to stay in and near the parks, ranging from historic lodges to family-friendly motels-plus a complete campground guide for each park. A fully illustrated nature guide to help you spot and identify bald eagles, bison, wildflowers, and more. The best hikes, from ranger-led interpretive walks to challenging backcountry overnights.What to see and do outside of the parks: rodeos, chuckwagon feeds, IMAX nature films, an elk preserve, Jackson Hole’s bars and boutiques, and more. Detailed, accurate park and trail maps. Synopsis: Frommer’s guidebooks are packed with the essentials: maps, expert advice, and recommendations for the top places to eat, sleep, shop, and simply relax. Frommer’s guides offer more hotel listings than most other series and also include an excellent opening chapter that highlights the best of each destination -- those absolute don’t-miss experiences that will make your trip something special. Art, music, fine dining, and much more are covered in detail, with all costs, directions, and other vital information included. Our Price: $10.99

Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks Mark David Spence From the Publisher: Mark David Spence examines the complex origins of the national parks and the troubling consequences of the American wilderness ideal. He explores the idealization of uninhabited wilderness in the late nineteenth century and the policies of Indian removal developed at Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Glacier national parks between the 1870s and the 1930s. Concerned with the historical and cultural importance of national park areas to the peoples who previously inhabited them, Spence also analyzes the efforts of various American Indian tribes to maintain a connection to these places after their dispossession. The first study to place national park history within the context of the early reservation era, this book details the ways in which national parks have developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century. Spence’s rich study will interest scholars and students of environmental history, Western history, American studies, and American Indian studies, as well as native scholars, environmentalists, and members of the National Park Service. List Price: $$19.95 Our Price: $18.95

Letters from Yellowstone Diane Smith From the Publisher: Set in the late nineteenth century against the backdrop of one of America’s most famous wild places, Diane Smith’s debut novel tells of a young woman’s dramatic journey to a greater understanding of her place in the world. A. E. (Alexandria) Bartram is a high-spirited medical student from the East whose real passion is botany. In the spring of 1898, she is invited to join a field study in Yellowstone National Park when its leader, Howard Merriam, a mild-mannered professor from Montana, mistakenly assumes she is a man. Once the scientists get over the shock of having a woman on their team, we follow their experiences over the course of a summer of adventure and collecting as they move from Mammoth Hot Springs to a camp high in the backcountry.. "From the group’s human dilemmas emerge clashing concepts of science, nature, and economics. As the summer draws to a close, everything the team has accomplished is threatened, forcing them to change their perceptions of themselves and each other. From The Critics: Barbara NordbyThe real beauty of this book, the lively way it intertwines the summertime landscapes and wildlife of Yellowstone National Park with the wonder and challenges visitors faced there in 1898, is accomplished through its epistolary form. The majority of the letters, all feeling true to period language, are penned by medical student Alex Bartram, who relies on her endearingly sarcastic wit and strict, scientific methods to prove her capabilities in a male-dominated field. Through their letters to colleagues and family, all the members of the wildlife-cataloging project reveal rich opinions of their successes and failures with both their work and the other Yellowstone inhabitants. Alex learns through these strangers’ guidance as she struggles to find independence from a world where her rock-climbing, male-bonding behavior is embarrassingly unladylike. She establishes a religious belief in nature’s order during this unique period of growth in both United States history and a woman’s life. Publishers WeeklyIn the spring of 1898, the Smithsonian Institution organized an expedition for botanical research in Wyoming’s Yellowstone Park. First-time novelist Smith, an environmental and science writer, follows amateur botanist A.E. Bartram’s summer as the lone woman in that party of male professionals, telling her story through detailed letters (and the occasional Western Union telegram). When Cornell student Bartram arrives in the camp, she receives a cool reception from expedition leader H.G. Merriam, who expected "A.E." to be a man. As the botanists strive to get along and gather flora unique to the Rocky Mountain area, they encounter the U.S. Cavalry and Native Americans. Disturbed by Professor Merriam’s inventive, sometimes nonscientific methods, Dr. Philip Aber of the Smithsonian visits the park to inspect and perhaps close down the project. The troubled Dr. Aber finally wanders off unguided into one of Yellowstone’s scalding thermal springs; his death adds to the party’s web of tensions. As life in Yellowstone changes her, Miss Bartram must deal with her stiff-necked Cornell mentor, Professor Lester King, whose "black-and-white" thinking she finally comes to reject. Miss Bartram lights up the novel with her admirable intelligence, wit and honest desire to learn from everyone, but Smith wisely prevents her epistles from overwhelming the other characters’ voices. Instead, the collage of letters and telegrams produces a Rashomon effect--the same actions are viewed from many perspectives with no one narrator dominant. Serenely attentive, deliberately paced, as careful with psychology and history as it is with its botany, Smith’s epistolary narrative makes a worthy addition to the expanding category of history-of-science novels. Author tour. (July) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information. KLIATTThis epistolary novel charmingly achieves its modest goals. The letter-writers are members of a pioneering group of naturalists who spend the summer of 1898 discovering, studying, and drawing the flora and fauna of the new national park. Only the mildest of conflicts give the novel its momentum—should the scientists use the traditional folk names of plants or only the binomial Latinate forms? Are the Native Americans dependable sources of information about medicinal plants? Will the U.S. military be able to sidetrack plans to bring a railroad line into the park? The central character is Alex Bartram, who is revealed to the flustered leader of the expedition as a woman (Alexandria) only after she arrives at Mammoth Hot Springs in late May. The place of women in the field and in science itself forms a central theme in the book. Since the novel was first published in 1999, the reader can be assured that Miss Bartram conducts herself flawlessly and proves herself essential to the ultimate success of the summer’s work. It’s no accident that she is a descendent of the greatest family of naturalists in American history. Pleasant and unassuming, Letters from Yellowstone manages to entertain us with an appealing set of characters—including a talking raven—and inform us about the hazards and pleasures of scientific fieldwork. Teachers of biology and ecology might take note. KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 1999, Penguin, 226p, 21cm, 99-12904, $12.95. Ages 16 to adult. Reviewer: Michael P. Healy; English Teacher, Wood River H.S., Hailey, ID January 2001 (Vol. 35 No. 1) Library JournalSmith has done a fine job with her first novel. Using the anonymity of correspondence, young A.E. (Alexandria) Bartram, a medical student and avid botanist, procures a spot on a Smithsonian-sponsored expedition to Yellowstone National Park in the summer of 1898. After the initial confusion over her gender and abilities subsides, Alex is accepted as part of a team that includes a mild-mannered professor, an inebriated agriculturist, a seldom-seen entomologist, a Chinese cook, a Crow Indian family, and a series of benefactors. As the weeks pass, Alex finds herself "committed to both illustrating as well as collecting" the flora and fauna of the park. Told entirely in letters, the book offers abundant detail and a mannered style that perfectly capture the attitudes and atmosphere of the era. Display this title next to A.S. Byatt’s Angels and Insects and Annie Dillards’s The Living. Recommended for all fiction collections.--Charlotte L. Glover, Ketchikan P.L., AK Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information. Kirkus ReviewsA colorful and credible first novel, by science-environment writer Smith, takes an epistolary approach to a tale of a budding young naturalist who’s invited to join a Smithsonian-backed expedition to Yellowstone in the summer of 1898, but who first has to overcome the dismay of her colleagues when they discover their naturalist is a woman. Although the initial correspondence between A.E. Bartram and the expedition leader, Montana college professor Merriam, is cordial and professional, the first sight of Alex (short for Alexandria) after she arrives in Yellowstone gives rise to a different dynamic. The mild-mannered, bespectacled Merriam hems and haws about what to do with her. Then, knowing how desperately shorthanded his expedition is, he decides to let her come along—secretly hoping she’ll soon call it quits herself. Alex quickly proves her competence, with a degree of scientific rigor easily exceeding Merriam’s own, yet her independence precipitates the team’s first crisis: she goes in search of specimens one day without telling anyone where she’s headed, so that when a spring snowstorm envelops them all, Merriam goes to her rescue. Then, however, he tumbles off a cliff and needs her to keep him alive. Other trials involve another member of the team, a brandy-soused meteorologist who prefers the park’s hotels to the outdoors, and Alex’s mentor and fiancandeacute;, a Cornell biology professor, who is sent by the young woman’s parents to Montana to bring her home. The fiancandeacute;, unable to adjust to Alex’s new free-spirited behavior, soon goes back east alone, and Alex finds herself changing even more, confronted with Merriam’s broader view of science and his obvious respectfor the herbal knowledge of his Crow Indian assistant. A warm, satisfying story. Despite repetition from overlapping correspondence and rather conventional plot twists, the magic of a Yellowstone summer shimmers here enticingly. Our Price: $14.00

Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park Tim Cahill From the Publisher: "Lost in My Own Backyard brings author Tim Cahill together with one of his - and America’s - favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world’s first national park." Cahill stumbles from glacier to geyser, encounters wildlife (some of it, like bisons, weighing in the neighborhood of a ton), muses on the microbiology of thermal pools, gets spooked in the mysterious Hoodoos, sees moonbows arcing across waterfalls at midnight, and generally has a fine old time walking several hundred miles while contemplating the concept and value of wilderness. Our Price: $19.95

Scenic Driving: Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks Susan Springer Butler From the Publisher: Written for those who love sight-seeing, this book offers information about some of the most spectacular scenery in the West. The wonders of these two national parks are introduced in 17 drives that cover all available roads with the parks and nine roads leading to them from Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Tips on camping, fishing, hiking, wildlife viewing and more is also included. Our Price: $15.95

Windows into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks Robert Baer Smith From the Publisher: These two parks are windows into the Earth’s interior, revealing the violent power of the dynamic processes within. In Windows into the Earth Robert Smith and Lee Siegel offer guidance through this terrain, bringing to life the grandeur of these geologic phenomena as they reveal the forces that have shaped - and continue to shape - the greater Yellowstone-Teton region. Over seventy illustrations - including fifty-two in full color - illuminate the beauty of the landscape, while two final chapters provide driving tours of the parks to help visitors enjoy and understand the regions’ wonders. From The Critics: KLIATTMost people, when thinking of the Grand Teton-Yellowstone Park areas, think of Old Faithful, snow-capped mountains, cool pine forests and buffalo. But one of these—Old Faithful—is indicative of the true geologic nature of this special land. "In a sense Yellowstone and Teton geology is a living entity. It belches violently during volcanic eruptions, blowing away or swallowing whole mountain ranges, repaving valleys, dumping ash on half a continent and changing global climate. And it emits enormous thermal energy to produce the world’s greatest concentration of geysers and hot springs." Yellowstone-Teton is actually an area known as a "hotspot"—one of 30 in the world. This hotspot is the largest under a continent (many are under oceans) and one of the largest in the world. This hotbed of activity resulted in a major earthquake as recently as 1959, which killed 19 people, sent an entire mountainside crashing down, and created a new lake after damming a river. Robert Smith, a professor of geology and geophysics, has teamed with prize-winning journalist Lee Siegel to create a science book for curious laymen, illustrated with many attractive color photographs. There is also a sort of guidebook section with 19 stops for those who wish to see the area with a geologic frame of reference. Useful for travelers with scientific interests, beginning geology students and special collections on the national parks and geology. KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2000, Oxford Univ. Press, 242p, 26cm, 99-22287, $29.95. Ages 16 to adult. Reviewer: Katherine E. Gillen; Libn., Luke AFB Lib., AZ, September 2000 (Vol. 34 No.5) Our Price: $29.95

Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park Peter Nabokov From the Publisher: "In the first comprehensive account of Indians in and around Yellowstone, Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf seek to correct a disparity. Drawing from archaeological records, Indian testimony, tribal archives, and collections of early artifacts from the Park, the authors trace the interactions of nearly a dozen Indian groups with each of Yellowstone’s four geographic regions." Restoring a Presence is illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs and maps and features narratives on subjects ranging from traditional Indian uses of plant, mineral, and animal resources to conflicts involving the Nez Perce, Bannock, and Sheep Eater peoples. By considering the many roles Indians have played in the complex history of the Yellowstone region, authors Nabokov and Loendorf provide a basis on which the National Park Service and other federal agencies can develop more effective relationships with Indian groups in the Yellowstone region. From The Critics: Library JournalNabokov (world arts and cultures, UCLA; A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History) and Loendorf (anthropology, New Mexico State Univ.; Ancient Visions: Petroglyphs and Pictographs from the Wind River and Big Horn Country; Wyoming and Montana) bring their considerable experience with Rocky Mountain native peoples to bear on the question of how extensively American Indians had historically made use of lands within the world’s first national park. This comprehensive study was first published by the Yellowstone Center for Resources, National Park Service in 2002. In this trade edition, a rather mild summary chapter designed to meet government contract requirements is replaced with a new, more forceful chapter of the authors’ expanded conclusions. Not included are five useful reference appendixes. In either form, Nabokov and Loendorf’s study has much greater scholarly depth than Joel C. Janetski’s general overview, Indians in Yellowstone National Park. Enthusiastically recommended for academic, research, and public libraries with interests in Native American and national parks history.-Nathan E. Bender, Buffalo Bill Historical Ctr., Cody, WY Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. Our Price: $39.95

Company of Wolves Peter Steinhart From the Publisher: They have been feared, sentimentalized, and slaughtered, yet they somehow have managed to resist extinction. Now wolves are being reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park, reawakening passions as ancient as their tangled relationship with human beings. For wolves, says Peter Steinhart, are our secret sharers, fellow predators with a complex social organization, intense family ties, and an equal capacity for aggression and cooperation. In The Company of Wolves, Steinhart follows these elusive creatures into their natural habitats. He describes the complexities of predation and pack life. He listens to them howl. He talks to the men and women who have devoted their lives to protecting or eradicating them. The result is an authoritative and eloquent book that is not only the last word on wolves but a journey back to the wild origins of human nature. From The Critics: Publishers WeeklySteinhart examines why wolves have featured so prominently in debates about natural preservation and the roles of predators. (July) Library JournalPeople either hate wolves or love them. To many, wolves have come to represent the last remnants of wildness; to others, wolves are a metaphor for the deeper aspects of the human animal. This is not a treatise on wolf biology but an examination of the relationship between humans and wolves in the wolves’ last refuges in the Arctic and in places where the two species live together again as wolves move into new areas, either through their own natural movements or through attempts at reintroduction. Steinhart, the author of several books (e.g., Tracks in the Sky, Random, 1991) and many popular articles on the environment, speaks with wolf biologists, wildlife managers, trappers, ranchers, Native Americans, and others. Though it is clear where Steinhart’s sympathies lie, the book is balanced between the wolves’ advocates and their opponents. Highly recommended for general collections.-Bruce Neville, Univ. of Texas Lib., El Paso Our Price: $14.95