After encountering mountain lion tracks near her home outside Yellowstone National Park, Leslie Patten began a journey to learn above these elusive, unseen animals by collecting anecdotal information and then interviewing biologists, professional trackers, houndsmen, and conservationists.
After encountering mountain lion tracks near her home outside Yellowstone National Park, Leslie Patten began a journey to learn above these elusive, unseen animals by collecting anecdotal information and then interviewing biologists, professional trackers, houndsmen, and conservationists.
Leslie Patten has worked as a horticulturist, habitat specialist, and landscape designer. After moving to Wyoming, she has volunteered at the Buffalo Bill Museum of the West—preparing bird and mammal specimens and measuring wolf skulls for scientific research. Patten is the author of several books, including Shadow Landscape: Notes from the Field; The Wild Excellence: Notes from Untamed America; and Koda and the Wolves.
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List of Illustrations Foreword by Harley G. Shaw Preface 1. The Quiet Rapture of Observation 2. Broom Riding and Human Meddling 3. A Language without Tongues 4. The Twenty-Three-Million-Acre Expanse of Wonder 5. Clues from beyond the Visible 6. The Houndsmen 7. The Deadliest Journey 8. The Zen of Mountain Lions 9. Bound in an Urban Forest 10. The Gordian Knot of Bighorns and Mountain Lions 11. Great Things Begin in the Tiny Seed of Small Change Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Foreword by Harley G. Shaw Preface 1. The Quiet Rapture of Observation 2. Broom Riding and Human Meddling 3. A Language without Tongues 4. The Twenty-Three-Million-Acre Expanse of Wonder 5. Clues from beyond the Visible 6. The Houndsmen 7. The Deadliest Journey 8. The Zen of Mountain Lions 9. Bound in an Urban Forest 10. The Gordian Knot of Bighorns and Mountain Lions 11. Great Things Begin in the Tiny Seed of Small Change Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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