Research Catalog

Title

Sweetgrass mornings / Slim Randles.

Author

Randles, Slim.

Publication

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.

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Description

viii, 235 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Veteran outdoorsman Slim Randles shares some forty years of amazing experiences in this collection of articles, stories, and even some poems about backcountry encounters between man and nature. Randles has been a guide and a mule packer, a fisherman and a newspaperman, in California, Alaska, and New Mexico, places whose breathtaking beauty is everywhere in his writings. Sometimes Slim and his various companions encounter animals most of us would just as soon avoid: moose, bears, cougars, skunks, and worst of all, wolverines. Sometimes he helps the reader sense the ghosts history in the Wild West, and sometimes he recounts tall tales, like the story of the Alaska trapper who ate a bear with its own teeth. Always, he blends reverence for nature with a highly developed sense of humor, usually poking fun at his own misadventures with horses, fish, and women. --Book Jacket.

Subject

West (U.S.) > Literary collections

Genre/Form

• Literary collections
• Literature

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Overture -- The day the mountains flipped over -- Night of the cougar -- Night fishing on the Stanislaus -- Thirty feet from death -- In the cold Alaska rain -- On beaver pond -- Going to the high country -- I need coffee! -- Snakin' in some wood -- The ballad of Nimrod Bodfish -- Night ride -- Remember, forest fires prevent bears! -- Stinkin' skunk -- The dancing mukluks -- Riding to Hell with Captain Bob -- A little fishing trip -- Soaked in summer -- The story of Governor Jay -- Dear ol' Boone -- Moving the hunt --Smokey, scourge of sled dogs -- The painless conversion of a nonbeliever -- Dave's bear -- Oh badger me not -- The wolverine pelt -- Jeep and the grandfathers -- Ghost coon ofTomé --Trouble on trail -- When you just can't lose -- Bunkhouse ballads -- When varmints shoot back -- A return to the saddle -- Think before you stink -- Mandy's first salmon -- A horse called Tornado -- The coyote family -- Little Slim's monumental booger fest -- The buckskin stud -- The search for Secret Lake -- Leona and the hotcake mule -- Gilbert the Mexican jinx -- Raven's children -- My debut as a fly-fishing legend -- Sittin' right here by the fire -- Breaking camp.

ISBN

• 9780826349262 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0826349269 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010015038

OCLC

606235291

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library