
Indian Creek Chronicles
A Winter in the Bitterroot Wilderness
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Patrick Lawlor
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Pete Fromm
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Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West's premier voices.
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- Robert J. Wagner
- 06-14-18
A Book about putting yourself out there....
This book was an entertaining read. I wish I had the guts to “put myself out there.” I enjoyed the book very much.
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- Ronald Stauffer
- 03-16-22
A very humble, but beautiful “On Walden Pond”
This was an absolute joy to listen to on Audible. Like taking a vacation in my mind. This college student, with almost NO self-awareness, blunders into an unlikely adventure in the wilderness. He determines to make the most of it, and becomes a man in the process. Outstanding writing!
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- Dmo
- 07-30-20
A good adventure
I liked the story very much. A nice mix of humor and adventure. The young spirit of a young man in the adventure of a lifetime that is at the beginning of his lifetime really.
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- Jenny
- 06-04-19
Good story that keeps a nice pace
I was interested in the story, and listened as I drove up the Clear Water river to Missoula. I was not too stoked on the ending but very relevant and telling.
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- Brom
- 01-22-20
Good story...
I liked the book. Worth the money. Makes one want to move into the mountains.
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- John Donald fox
- 12-11-18
Great book!
as a person who's done multiple excursions into the High Country it made me want to go back.
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- Anne K
- 07-04-23
Good story but lots of holes
As a hunter and a Montanan, I felt this was a bit of fiction, as opposed to a real mountain-man story. On the whole I enjoyed the tale. But this was not a dog-lover ( the whole dog element seemed tacked on), the idea of a game warden allowing unlawful hunting and not issuing a license on the spot unrealistic, and the bobcat story was illogical. It didn’t ring true to me.
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- Mark
- 11-02-23
Amazing!
Grew up on this book. Have read it 6 times. Just makes you feel great!
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- Anonymous User
- 05-05-20
"Full of ineffable wonder"
I love this book, it teaches the importance of viewing nature in all its beauty.
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- Alan R Williams
- 01-26-24
Is the wilderness and the vastness only in our minds?
What a thrilling, terrifying, exhilarating look at how loneliness becomes aloneness, finally becoming aliveness. Highly recommended for armchair adventurers.
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