The Ninemile Wolves

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003 - Gray wolf - 161 pages
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One of Rick Bass's most widely respected works of natural history, The Ninemile Wolves follows the fate of a modern wolf pack, the first known group of wolves to attempt to settle in Montana outside protected national park territory. The wolf inspires hatred, affection, myth, fear, and pity; its return polarizes the whole of the West -- igniting the passions of cattle ranchers and environmentalists, wildlife biologists and hunters. One man's vigorous, emotional inquiry into the proper relationship between man and nature, The Ninemile Wolves eloquently advocates wolf reintroduction in the West. In a new preface, Bass discusses the enduring lessons of the Ninemile story.

 

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THE NINEMILE WOLVES

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Bass continues his essays about Montana (Winter, 1991, etc.) with this masterful life history of a contemporary wolf pack. In the 19th-century West, Bass notes, wolves were relentlessly trapped ... Read full review

The Ninemile wolves: an essay

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This essay by popular writer Bass ( Winter: Notes from Montana , LJ 2/15/91) examines the attempt to reintroduce an orphaned wolfpack to the Ninemile valley of northwest Montana. Conducted by the U.S ... Read full review

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
15
Section 3
38
Section 4
45
Section 5
48
Section 6
70
Section 7
75
Section 8
87
Section 9
94
Section 10
144
Copyright

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The Ninemile Wolves: An Essay
Rick Bass
Snippet view - 1992
The Ninemile Wolves: An Essay
Rick Bass
Snippet view - 1993

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About the author (2003)

RICK BASS's fiction has received O. Henry Awards, numerous Pushcart Prizes, awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and his memoir, Why I Came West, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.

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TitleThe Ninemile Wolves
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AuthorRick Bass
Editionillustrated
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003
ISBN0618263020, 9780618263028
Length161 pages
  
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