Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter in the Bitterroot Wilderness (with signed postcards)

NY: Lyons & Burford, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed on the title page by Fromm. Additionally laid in are two postcards from Fromm to an Oregon journalist about buying first editions of this and another book direct from him. Apparently they weren't readily available then, and a first edition of Indian Creek Chronicles appears to be uncommon now, with no other obvious copies available online. This is Fromm's terrific debut, a memoir telling of the winter he spent alone in a wall tent in the Bitterroot to tend two-million salmon eggs planted in a remote creek by the Montana Fish and Game. Many passages in this book are searing: an encounter with a bobcat, dressing an elk, and more. This bookseller recommends it highly. Fromm has gone on to an impressive career, mainly as a novelist, and is a four time winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Awards; he is a writer acclaimed in the Northwest who should probably be much better known beyond the region. One postcard depicts the Bitterroot River, which is a nice touch laid in here, and the other is of the Montana prairie. The recipient was a career newspaperman with a passion for the outdoors, and notably he covered the eruption of Mt. St. Helens for the Oregonian. A fine book in fine jacket. Comes with a fine Picador paperback reading copy. .