Patricia Van Tighem chronicles her recovery after she was attacked by a grizzly bear in 1983 and discusses how she healed both her physical and emotional wounds in the years after the attack.
Explores the impact Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery's expedition to the American West had on grizzly lore and separated the legends from the realities of grizzly bears.
In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.
Recounts a year in the life of a bear and her cubs as they come out of hibernation, wander about a national park, and eventually are returned by rangers to a remote area away from men.