Indian Creek Chronicles
Pete Fromm
Lyons Press
<span>The wardens climbed into their truck, ready to leave. 'You'll need  about seven cords of firewood. Concentrate on that. You'll have to get  it all in before the snow grounds your truck.'"<br>"Though I didn't want to ask, it seemed important. 'What's a cord?'"<br>So  begins Pete Fromm's seven winter months alone in a tent in the  Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness guarding salmon eggs. After blundering into  this forbidding errand as a college lark, Fromm gradually come face to  face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man.  Brutal cold, isolation, and fearful risks balance against the  satisfaction of living a unique existence in modern America.<br>This  award-winning narrative is a gripping story of adventure, a rousing  tale of self-sufficiency, and modern-day Walden. From either  perspective, Fromm lives up to his reputation as one of the West's  strongest new voices.</span>