Man Meets Grizzly: Encounters in the Wild from Lewis and Clark to Modern Times
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. First printing. Hardcover. 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches; 235 by 161 mm. Hardcover, in fine condition, bound in brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine, in a fine tan jacket with a drawing of a grizzly. Jacket enclosed in a clear, archival-quality, removable protective cover. Item #446
ISBN: 0395291941
Francis Marion Young, a nephew of Brigham Young, was born in 1870 and began gathering bear stories during research for his 1938 book Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West. He spent time as a farmer, a Mormon missionary in Germany and Samoa, and for thirty years a school teacher and administrator in Utah. His granddaughter, Beyers, of the American Studies program at Utah State University, worked with him on the story collection until his death in 1949. The book includes a three-page introduction by Frank C. Craighead, Jr., the pioneering wildlife biologist and grizzly expert.
Price: $20.00