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Bitterroot : echoes of beauty and loss / Steven Faulkner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Beaufort Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: 377 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780825307928
  • 0825307929
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Contents:
The Oregon Trail -- Ash Hollow -- Fort Laramie -- Desert -- Alex -- Rock Springs -- Rendezvous -- De Smet and the Salish -- Lewis and Clark -- Lemhi Pass -- Shoshone -- Manhood -- The Bitterroots -- Lewiston -- Wendover Bridge -- The Lolo -- The Nez Perce -- Sleepy Bear and Crazy Bear -- Mark and son -- Murder and petroglyphs -- The Selway -- The Clearwater -- Sparky and Smoky vs. the Feds -- To jump or not to jump -- Liberty Bell -- Onion Man and Knife Ladies -- Wind -- Aliens -- Crawdad Man and a nervous Houdini -- Dammed -- Fort Clatsop and thieves -- The Nez Perce again -- Cut nose, twisted hair, and broken arm -- Justin -- Stopped on the Lolo -- Bubba -- High up the Lolo -- Lewis east -- Clark south -- Blackfeet -- The Lolo again -- Watchers -- Treefalls -- Pursuit and escape -- Three devils and the antler artist -- De Smet and the Bitterroot -- A wild and difficult ride -- The old mission and the brothel -- Bitterroot -- Big Hole -- Heading home -- De Smet and the Sioux -- Ash Hollow again -- Basque festival -- The wanderer -- Standing Bear and Iron Hail -- These vanishing hills -- The Bear.
Summary: Steven Faulkner and his eighteen-year old son, Alex, follow the trail of Lewis & Clark. By road, foot, mountain bike, and canoe, Steven and Alex experience the vast landscape and try to capture an understanding of the wild northwest.
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By road, foot, mountain bike, and canoe, Steven and Alex experience the vast landscape and try to capture an understanding of the Wild Northwest.



Using the letters of the 19th-century explorer Pierre Jean De Smet, Steven Faulkner and his eighteen-year-old son, Alex, follow De Smet across the High Plains to the fur trappers' rendezvous on the Green River, then on to the Lewis and Clark Trail, where they are taken over the Rockies-the part of the journey that almost killed the two explorers-and into the homeland of the Nez Perce whose fate is strangely tied to these emissaries from the east



Through many chance encounters with modern residents, like Bubba, the LA gangster taking refuge in Idaho's mountains; or Jean, the retired school teacher who as a visceral hatred of the EPA; and even Mary, the dog trainer who fought the Forest Service for ten years and won at the high cost of $100,000; Steven and Alex are able to broaden their perspective of the terrain, and themselves, in the process.

"A father and son on the trail of Lewis & Clark"--Dust jacket.

The Oregon Trail -- Ash Hollow -- Fort Laramie -- Desert -- Alex -- Rock Springs -- Rendezvous -- De Smet and the Salish -- Lewis and Clark -- Lemhi Pass -- Shoshone -- Manhood -- The Bitterroots -- Lewiston -- Wendover Bridge -- The Lolo -- The Nez Perce -- Sleepy Bear and Crazy Bear -- Mark and son -- Murder and petroglyphs -- The Selway -- The Clearwater -- Sparky and Smoky vs. the Feds -- To jump or not to jump -- Liberty Bell -- Onion Man and Knife Ladies -- Wind -- Aliens -- Crawdad Man and a nervous Houdini -- Dammed -- Fort Clatsop and thieves -- The Nez Perce again -- Cut nose, twisted hair, and broken arm -- Justin -- Stopped on the Lolo -- Bubba -- High up the Lolo -- Lewis east -- Clark south -- Blackfeet -- The Lolo again -- Watchers -- Treefalls -- Pursuit and escape -- Three devils and the antler artist -- De Smet and the Bitterroot -- A wild and difficult ride -- The old mission and the brothel -- Bitterroot -- Big Hole -- Heading home -- De Smet and the Sioux -- Ash Hollow again -- Basque festival -- The wanderer -- Standing Bear and Iron Hail -- These vanishing hills -- The Bear.

Steven Faulkner and his eighteen-year old son, Alex, follow the trail of Lewis & Clark. By road, foot, mountain bike, and canoe, Steven and Alex experience the vast landscape and try to capture an understanding of the wild northwest.

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