Last of the Mountain Men [Paperback]

Harold Peterson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Backeddy Books (June 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0960356665
• ISBN-13: 978-0960356669
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #474,018 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a mountain of a hero from yesterday ways., October 6, 1998

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This review is from: Last of the Mountain Men (Paperback)

Sylvan hart lived as remote and pure a life as any man in the last half of this century. He was supremely skilled in survival, yet his skills were art. Perhaps his knowledge of natures resources and techniques of self sufficiency encouraged his retreat from society, but he must have also have been drawn by ancestral voices. This book delivers the reader to pristine, soon to be rediscovered Salmon River wilderness in Idaho. Looking over the shoulder of this man's calm, deliberate and happy practices of early skills may be your only insight to the price you are paying for societal safety.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars my friend bill, February 3, 2009

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Bram Glaeser (Healdsburg, Ca.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last of the Mountain Men (Paperback)

Bill was our cloest neighbor for year we spent at Mackey Bar. Here was a man with emense talents in gardening, engineering, wilderness survival and with a very humerous side. The first time I met Bill he told me the story about a teacher (I was the teacher at Mackey Bar) who came back there many years ago. The story goes that a certain lady had taken a liking to him but he was unresponsive to which they found him face down in a ditch, retired. That was my introduction to Bill. This book captures much of Bills life and is an excellent story of a truly great American. In all our fantasies we think we can go to the wilderness and live happily ever after. Not so, not true. It's a jungle out there folks but Bill did it with flare and grace. He was a frontier gentleman. He really took a liking to my wife. He changed her name to Bridget because he said she reminded him of the patron saint of the Celts. I found in Bill someone I could talk to about current events (he subscribed to the New York Times), art, literature and of course, living in the wilderness. His life was art as you can see by the many illstrations in Peterson's book. My hats off to Peterson for capturing a truly unique individual. A must read for those interested in a man of our time living in another time.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Last of the Mountain Men, December 10, 2008

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John W. Lisowski "AlaskaLynx" (Juneau, Alaska, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last of the Mountain Men (Paperback)

My review is very brief. I met the Last of the Mountain Men in 1975 and contrary to those who think he was not a Mountain Man, they are very much mistaken. I lived in Idaho at the time and went to the River of No Return, the Salmon River near where Buckskin Bill lived. But, I saw him in Donnelly, Idaho instead and he wrote in the paperback book I had about him, entitled "Last of the Mountain Men," the following two words only: "Be Prepared!" And, he signed it in hieroglyphics (in this sense: A system of writing which uses pictures for concepts and ideas). He drew in crayon for me in the book a picture of a deer head with antlers (buck), a picture of a skinned deer, and a picture of a beak of a bird (bill). This is all TRUE! Hence, Buckskin Bill!

I give this book a 5 star rating because I read it, but more than that, I met the man and he definitely was a Mountain Man.

John Lisowski

Juneau, Alaska