HELL RAISER FROM YELLOWSTONE TO COLORADO
| U. S. Park Service Ranger Ward Palmer
narrates this intense story of a unique inhabitant of Yellowstone Park––one
individual of the grizzly bear family, Ursa horribilis. The unusual color,
character and behavior of this bear drew Palmer’s smiling attention in its youth, but
their paths cross again years later in dramatic fashion, when it's terrorizing of a group
of hikers proves to be no joke or laughing matter. This exciting tale reveals the perceptions and experiences of the yellow-faced bear and the people who encounter him in his travels. Bear’s perspective: the affront and torment of being hunted by hounds, tranquilized and transported from his home range, attacked, injured and routed by flames. People’s perspective: what to do about a renegade bear as campers, hikers, fishermen and ranchers fall into unexpected life-threatening confrontations! |
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| Rich, picturesque natural imagery and the timely issues of
conservation and hunting are woven into the fabric of this tension-filled work that
hurdles to its dramatic climax. Paperback 4.25" x 7.00 " 465 Pages $8.00 Add to Shopping Cart below. |
An excerpt from The Last Grizzly:
| The sound Joe had been waiting
for edged into his tuned consciousness over the drumming of their feet and gasping of
their breath. It wasn’t the sound of the bear’s feet nor of its breath as Joe
had thought it might be, but rather it was the even spaced sound of a heavy grunt each
time the bear’s front feet landed on the trail. With deep dread he knew the time had
come. He stepped aside to let Alan pass, and almost fell as he tried to turn and get the
stick into batting position before he could stop his forward motion. And there was the bear, almost upon them, its head level now, mouth agape, tongue lolling to the side. Two more bounds and it would be on him and the pain would start. He briefly wondered if the bear would bite him first or swipe at him with its three inch claws . . . |
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