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ISBN: 978-1-57510-139-2. Copyright 2008. Softcover. 141 pages. 25 B&W photos. Dimensions: 5.25" x 8.25" x .25". Foreword by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin From the front cover: "Almost like listening to Slim in person. A fine job of conveying Slim Moore's philosophy humor and woods lore. Historic. A must read for hunter's interested in Alaska's wildlife, and hunting in times past." - Darrell Farmen, 40 years a registered guide, and a long-time friend of Slim Moore. From the back cover: In 1955, responding to Slim Moore's urging, the Territorial Game Commission set aside the McNeil River area for brown bear viewing. Now people flock here from all over the world to see the bears. Slim Moore Alaska Master Guide - the stories of Alaska Master Guide Slim Moore found in this volume were tape-recorded by the author in 1956. Told with humor, and in exciting detail, they recall a sparsely inhabited Alaska, with old-fashioned month-or-more mixed-game guided hunts- a far cry from most of today's hurry-up guided hunts. In 1931, Moore became a registered big game hunting guide, and, with packhorses, started taking client hunters into the remote mountains on four-week to six-week hunts. He had two goals; to give his clients the best hunt possible, and to keep them safe. Hunts with Slim Moore were strictly fair chase; his hunting ethics were of the highest level. Throughout his near-fifty-year guiding career, Territorial and State wildlife biologists often conferred with him on wildlife issues. Moore was one of Alaska's first ten Master Guides. In 1973 the Alaska Professional Hunters Association named him Guide of the Year. In 1974 the APHS presented him with the Simon-Waugh award, its highest honor. In 1978, the Alaska Legislature award him an honorary Master Guide license for life and congratulated him for his almost half a century of guiding. When he retired at 80, he was the oldest active guide in Alaska. Slim Moore died in Anchorage on April 3, 1982, at 83. Author Jim Rearden - "When Slim Moore talked about wildlife, people listened, for he was a careful observer. His years of guiding and trapping made him an expert at interpreting the impact of nature and humans on wildlife." -Sterling Eide, retired Alaska Department Fish and Game wildlife biologist, and one time next-door neighbor to Slim Moore. Table of Contents Foreword, by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1. When Hollywood Came to Alaska
2. M.W. (Slim) Moore
3. Riding a Ram Down a Mountain
4. Chasing Moose
5. Chasing Griz Over a Mountain
6. A Bare-handed Encounter with a Wolf
7. The Parbuckled Brownie, and other Bear Oddities
8. Close Encounters with Interior Grizzlies
9. The Midnight Charge of a Brown Bear
10. One-shot Bill, a Trophy Bull, and the Ways of Moose
11. The Johnson-Brennan Record Ram
12. Woes of a Guide
13. Stalking Sheep, and Memories of Early Days  |
