Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness

Editorial Review:

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.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Indian Creek Chronicles:

VERY ENTERTAING AND HOLDS YOUR INTEREST VERY WELL; PETE IS A
REAL PERSON ON A REAL ADVENTURE.

Indian Creek Chronicles:

Some friends of mine are certainly going to get "Indian Creek Chronicles" for Christmas this year. A wide variety of interests will enjoy this book.
Pete Fromm is justly known as an excellent writer. This memoir is some of his early material and describes some of his earliest wilderness experiences. He was a tenderfoot in an alien environment. Thus this becomes a true story written on a clean slate. A person must believe that the experience had a profound influence on him and on his writings that we... more info

I hope you like snow:

Hard to find many faults with this book. It had about everything a guy could want. Life in the Bitterroot mountains, a good dog, a little hunting and trapping and fishing, and lots of snow. This is a well told story of the romantic and somewhat serendipitous transition of a Midwest college kid from the life of a dorm rat to the life of a mountain goat. He has a friend, Rader, who pops in from time to time, and his faithful dog Boone, but otherwise is pretty much a hermit. The author does a great job of... more info

Enjoyable reading...:

I really enjoyed the tale of living it out in the wilds for a newbie outdoorsman. Very well written and really takes you into the backcountry to see how he adapted and strived to enjoy the atmosphere. Great job.

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