Paperback. 224 pages. 5.50 x 8.50 x .75 in. 79 B&W photos. Published by Great Northern Publishing and Distributing Company. Copyright 1984. ISBN 0-937708-02-X 

Text taken from: Alaska Outdoor Books

TRACK OF THE KODIAK chronicles the author's foot-journey through Kodiak Island's most remote Brown Bear country. During that sojourn, he visited Pinnell and Talifson hunting camps, and once again enjoyed the thrills and adventures of Kodiak hunting at its finest. The author's trek resulted in many hunting tales from Pinnell and Talifson, and was the ultimate basis for extensive research into Kodiak Island's past -from prehistoric times to the present.

In this volume the author explores Brown Bear territory with Pinnell and Talifson, describes the big bruins' habits and haunts, and provides a graphic manual on Brown Bear hunting and outfitting for hunters everywhere. This book follows the author's previous work, entitled Pinnell and Talifson: LAST OF THE GREAT BROWN BEAR MEN (1980), which contains the biographical sketch of those two famous Brown Bear guides. Many more original Pinnell and Talifson stories are provided in TRACK OF THE KODIAK, including the epic 1967 hunt of Prince Abdorizzi Pahlavi, brother to the late Shah of Iran. Together, the two volumes comprise the most comprehensive treatise ever written on Kodiak Brown Bear and the men who hunt them.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Acknowledgements

Chapter I The original trek
    The author lands at Larsen's Bay and backpacks to Karluk Lake where he encounters bears and hunters.
Chapter II Arrival at Bill Pinnell's Karluk Lake camp
    Hard-hunting with the master guide.
Chapter III Return to Olga Bay
    the Pinnell and Talifson story.
Chapter IV Caring for hides with Morris Talifson.
Chapter V Trek to Red Lake; through the world's largest bear trail
   Kodiak's geographical and geological development considered.
Chapter VI Weathered in at Red Lake
   Ancient Koniag history and culture.
Chapter VII Russian American
   Early development under United States rule.
Chapter VIII Kodiak Blacktail deer; Reindeer; other species.
Chapter IX Brown Bear life history; infanticide.
Chapter X  Trek to the sea; Brown Bear seasonal movement; denning habits.
Chapter XI The danger factor considered
   Charging Brown Bears.
Chapter XII Outfitting hunting camps.
Chapter XIII  Trek to the head of Olga Bay
   Cabin politics and changing times.
Chapter XIV Return to Cannery Cove
   Taxidermists and tanners; the skin scam.
Chapter XV A parting shot
    Pinnell and Talifson hunting methods explained.