Sweetgrass Mornings

About this book

Veteran outdoorsman Slim Randles shares some forty years of amazing experiences in this collection of articles stories and even some poems about backcountry encounters between man and nature. Randles has been a guide and a mule packer a fisherman and a newspaperman in California Alaska and New Mexico places whose breathtaking beauty is everywhere in his writings. Sometimes Slim and his various companions encounter animals most of us would just as soon avoid: moose bears cougars skunks and worst of all wolverines. Sometimes he helps the reader sense the ghosts of history in the Wild West and sometimes he recounts tall tales like the story of the Alaska trapper who ate a bear with its own teeth. Always he blends reverence for nature with a highly developed sense of humor usually poking fun at his own misadventures with horses fish and women. His tales are impossible not to enjoy.