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Grizzlies & White Guys: The Stories of Clayton Mack
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Grizzlies & White Guys: The Stories of Clayton Mack Paperback - 1996

by Clayton Mack; Harvey Thommasen (Editor)

The "greatest grizzly bear guide in the world" offers his best tales--close encounters with the legendary sasquatch, the woman with blue lipstick who wanted to shoot her own bear, the grizzly who stole Old Chief Squinas's homebrew--every tale is true and packed with "thrills, chills, and knee-slapping humor".


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The extraordinary life story of Clayton Mack (1910-1993), a legendary hunting guide from the Nuxalk Nation (Bella Coola), is told in his own words. To Clayton Mack, who loved the wilderness and whose most precious memories were of the days when people got around without roads, told time without watches, and took planks from giant cedars without axes, the two most mysterious creatures on earth were grizzly bears and Q'umsciwas (white men) - from Crooked Jaw the Indian Agent to the rich and famous men who hired him to guide them on their trophy hunts.

The tales are told by a natural storyteller, who as a child was carried as a prop in Native ceremonial dances, and who later found himself dining in Hollywood restaurants with California's most powerful people. His stories are wild and bawdy and funny and tragic, and they reach back through history. They are like native ritual dances, in that it's impossible to separate the magic from the realism: at the end, you will wonder what was real and what was dream. The arnazing thing is, it's all true. It's all true.
-Mark Hume, journalist for the Vancouver Sun, National Post and author of The Run of the River

First line

I am the last one, and my brother Orden, that's all.

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  • Title Grizzlies & White Guys: The Stories of Clayton Mack
  • Author Clayton Mack; Harvey Thommasen (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada
  • Date January 1, 1996
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781550171402 / 1550171402
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
  • Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America - British Columbia, Bella Coola Indians
  • Dewey Decimal Code 799.292
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