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Book Review of Trails of a Wilderness Wanderer: True Stories from the Western Frontier

Trails of a Wilderness Wanderer: True Stories from the Western Frontier
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From his boyhood days through his adulthood as a trapper, guide, naturalist, and outdoorsman, Andy Russell lived a lifestyle that would be near-impossible today. Growing up in the Northern Rockies (Canadian) in a land of "boots and saddles, guns and fishing rods, and the smell of pines and grass," he observed the ways of animals wild and tame, braved rugged mountaintops, and freezing rivers.