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MOUNTAINEERING
A Climber’s Guide to the Teton Range, 4th Edition
By Reynold Jackson and Leigh Ortenburger, Greg Winston (photographer)
Covering 932 routes on more than 235 peaks and canyon walls in the Tetons, the newest version of this essential guide features fresh aerial photography and route overlays, plus a detailed section on the history of climbing in the Tetons. Renowned retired GTNP climbing ranger Renny Jackson has added new traverses, route links and access, difficulty classification, first ascent info, routes of descents, and estimated times needed.
WYOMING COWBOYS
The Virginian
By Owen Wister
First published in 1902, this classic American western novel delivers a strong, silent cowboy hero, plucky spinster schoolmarm, evil rustlers, a terrible villain, and the first known shootout scene in American literature. Law and order had not come yet to Medicine Bow, Wyoming, and the offended hero is torn between his sense of frontier justice and the love of a good woman.
SERIES SPOTLIGHT
Out of Range (A Joe Pickett Novel)
By C. J. Box
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is the hero of this series of 24 mysteries. In the fifth book of the series, he is sent to Jackson to manage the district of a fellow warden who seemingly killed himself. Joe is soon way over his head battling politicians, environmental extremists, and the rich and powerful of Jackson Hole.
GRIZZLIES!
Track of the Grizzly
By Frank C. Craighead Jr.
Starting in 1959, the author and his twin brother, John, lived in the Yellowstone backcountry for 13 years, tracking hundreds of bears. The book is a detailed portrait of the carnivores and a look at the lives of pioneering wildlife biologists at work. Craighead was a leading authority on the grizzly who worked with the National Geographic Society, U.S. Forest Service, and the U.S. Department of the Interior while living with his family in Moose. JH
