Short Synopsis
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man.

Full Synopsis
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West's premier voices.

"An absorbing personal account. . . . Entertaining nonfiction." ---School Library Journal

"A fine tale of adventure and self-sufficiency." ---Publishers Weekly

“A swift, absorbing tale . . . [Fromm] has made me shake out my heavy winter sleeping bags with renewed enthusiasm.” ---Chicago Tribune

“Honest, lyrical, and full of a kind of ineffable wonder. Anyone who has ever loved a place truly will surely love this book” ---Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness