John C. Mouat

Tales of the Beartooth: Book One- Critter Encounters John C. Mouat

The snow-capped Beartooth Mountains, Montana's highest and most rugged, lie on the northern rim of Yellowstone National Park, and separate Montana from Wyoming. It was to this remote and forbidding area inhabited by bears, mountain lions, moose deer, Big Horn Sheep, beaver, and many other forms of wildlife that the author settled down with a new wife and a newly-adopted son, after flying combat in three wars. There, with the help of two older sons, they carved the Stillwater Valley Guest Ranch and the Montana School of Fly Fishing out of the Beartooth Wilderness. This book describes the daunting - but eventually successful - attempts by the author and his family to live in peace and harmony among all of these beautiful, but often difficult and cantankerous (especially the thieving bears and the persistent beavers), without harming a single one of them.