Mountain Fever

Mountain Fever chronicles one mans love affair with a region its unique and vanishing human culture and its verdant natural history. Spanning the 1920s through the 1960s it recounts Tom Alexanders early adventures as a government ranger and forester in Western North Carolina where he dealt with arsonists poachers and bitter winter storms plus his own experience as a stockman in battles with government authorities over sheep- and cattle-killing bears. From his many years in the backcountry as a hunter fisherman hiker and pack tripper Tom distills firsthand observations of wildlife geography and mountain sociology.