Tales of the Beartooth: Book One- Critter Encounters

The snow-capped Beartooth Mountains, Montana's highest and most rugged, lie on the northern rim of Yellowstone National Park, and separate Montana from Wyoming. It was to this remote and forbidding area inhabited by bears, mountain lions, moose deer, Big Horn Sheep, beaver, and many other forms of wildlife that the author settled down with a new wife and a newly-adopted son, after flying combat in three wars. There, with the help of two older sons, they carved the Stillwater Valley Guest Ranch and the Montana School of Fly Fishing out of the Beartooth Wilderness.This book describes the daunting - but eventually successful - attempts by the author and his family to live in peace and harmony among all of these beautiful, but often difficult and cantankerous (especially the thieving bears and the persistent beavers), without harming a single one of them.

John C. Mouat was born in 1921, in a two-room log cabin on a ranch near Custer, Montana--not far from the site of the Little Big Horn River where General Custer and many of his troops were massacred in 1876. He attended a one-room schoolhouse using a horse and buggy for transportation.During World War II, he piloted 8th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses from a base in England to targets in Germany. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery during a raid on the ball-bearing plant in Schweinfurt. He also flew combat in Korea from 1950 to 1953.He retired from the Air Force to a remote ranch in Montana's Beartooth Mountains just outside Yellowstone Park. He has written two Tales of the Beartooth books about wildlife, dudes, and cowboys in the Beartooths as well as a novel about the 'Flying Tigers' and the War in Korea. He has plans for three more books - another of the Tales of the Beartooth series, a novel of the Vietnam War, and a third book on a subject he has not disclosed.Colonel Mouat lives with his wife, Carolynn, in Cape Canaveral, Florida.