The Bald Face, and Other Animal Stories
Hal G. Evarts, Charles Livingston Bull
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This book was originally published in 1921 and is illustrated with over 20 ink and pen drawings. It has 10 stories written from both from Evarts personal experience and the lore of the Soshone and their god-ancestor Manitou. It covers the lives of various animals from their birth to their death, with descriptions of how they eat, hunt, raise young, and mate. It follows the massive decrease in animals in the Yellowstone region after the land changes from the hands of the Shoshone to the white man, shows the different ways humans hunt and trap animals, and describes the various physical and spiritual connections between some animals and the humans they interact with.This book has the following stories:THE BALD FACE: About three bears: Tumwa, the yellowish-brown grizzly, Saka-Tumwa, the silvertip, and Logo-Tumwa, the bald-face.THE TAWNY MENACE: About the mountain lion Loupang.THE PALMATED PIONEER: About Stranger the moose.THE VANISHED SQUADRONS: About the white cranes Latakinee and his mate Matinak.TRAVELING OTTER: About the otter Talagwa.THE BLACK RAM OF SUNLIGHT: About Tukuar, a black ram.DOG TOWN: About the prairie dogs Weekin and his mate Weechi.THE BLACK AND CINNAMON TWINS: About the two bears: the cinnamon Wakinoo and the black bear Wakinee.SAVAGERY: About Wawina, the silver-black fox and Wameechin, the red she-fox.THE LAST MOVE: About Fleet, the pronghorn buck.About the Author: Hal George Evarts, Sr. (1887-1934) was a best-selling author of western adventure in the 1920s and 1930s. He traveled all over the west, and at various times was a rancher, trapper, a surveyor in the U.S. Indian Territory, a back-country hunting guide in Wyoming, and raised fur-bearing animals for their pelts. He became an acknowledged expert on hunting and trapping, and in his midlife became outdoors editor of "The Saturday Evening Post", specializing in articles about hunting.