Publisher's Synopsis
In Jackson, Wyoming, a cache of documents in a deceased man's attic confirms a childhood vision a journalist experienced on a camping trip in Grand Teton National Park. Learning his memories of a mother grizzly who transforms the lives of those crossing her path were real, Bill Larkin embarks on a life journey, intertwining his autobiographical Stories of the Mother Bear with current events: foremost, the Vietnam War and aftermath. The family of the deceased were black cowboys; his grandfather a freed slave who kept a journal from his days as a cattle hand through the family's settling in Teton. Portrayed in the journal is an engraved key a Kiowa youth gave his son along the Chisholm Trail. Who is the estate's rightful heir? And what connection does the family have with the Mother Bear?
