Wapiti Wilderness
by: Margaret & Olaus Murie Murie

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 302 pages. A follow-up to Margaret Murie's classic Two in the Far North about their earlier life in Alaska, this book set in and around Jackson Hole was co-authored with her husband Olaus, who died before its publication. In alternating chapters, Olaus, a renown wildlife biologist, writes about his animal studies, especially of elk (wapiti), and Margaret writes more generally about "their life together, on the trail, in the various camps, and nature adventures in the wilderness during four seasons." The Muries were pivotal in the wilderness movement and lived at the base of the Tetons in Moose, Wyoming. Their home is now the Murie Center in the National Park. Margaret has been called "the grandmother of the conservation movement." With photographs and illustrations by Olaus. Clean copy.