U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)-— The Wolves of Alaska A Fact-based Saga, by Jim Rearden, 335 pages, published 2002, Pictoral Histories Publishing Company, Missoula, Montana. Prices vary from under $20 new, to under $10 used, or about $3 on Kindle.
The Wolves of Alaska: A Fact-based Saga
The Wolves of Alaska (Wolves) is a comprehensive, deep dive into wolf habits, management, and the politics of such management in Alaska. It is written in an easy-to-read format, a “faction,” a saga based on fact, with fictionalized names to protect the innocent and give the guilty no action for a lawfare lawsuit.
It is a fine antidote to the misinformation perpetrated on the world with “Never Cry Wolf” by Farley Mowat.
Reardon was a legendary Alaska professor, guide, author, writer, scientist, and civic-minded volunteer. He had a lifetime of experience, 46 years, in Alaska when Wolves of Alaska was finished, about 1996. It would be six more years before it was published in 2002.
Wolves of Alaska relies on the best research, real-world experience, and information gleaned from several lifetimes in Alaska dealing with wolves.
Rearden had already written several books and interviewed people with a lifetime of study of wolves. While wolves are perhaps the most important characters in the book, a host of real and composite characters, made from the real lives of men and women, come to life in the book’s pages. A favorite is Frank Glaser. Reardon devoted an entire book to Frank, several years earlier. Frank was a legendary hunter and trapper in Alaska.
Rearden was an early and perhaps the main proponent of ending the bounty on wolves, which had been with the state for most of the
