Bøker av Terry Grosz

In 1806, the return to St. Louis of Lewis and Clark from their epic journey across the unexplored American West with their tales of untold abundance of valuable furbearers, especially beaver, excited the populace! Men like General Ashley and Major Henry responded to such tales of valuable furbearers in abundance by forming a fur company, employing 100 adventurous young men as company trappers, and keelboating up the Missouri River to the Yellowstone to establish a fort and trading post. There they initiated trade with the Indians, the principal harvesters of animal furs in America, and sent their own company trappers out to harvest valuable furbearers, especially beaver.¿Thus begins Vince "Buck Snort" Toni and his Indian "Brother", Wind Horse's lives, first as orphans at a 'hellhole' orphanage, which by fate, exploded them into a life as fur trappers in the beautiful but dangerous largely unexplored American West! In the adventurous years that followed, Buck Snort Toni and Wind Horse trapped beaver and wolves along the Bighorn River facing freezing waters, violent "Ball Lightning" thunderstorms, buffalo stampedes, a deadly Frontier web of revenge, "Winter Bears", vicious Northern Arapaho 'Sons of the Prairies', renegade Hudson Bay fur trappers, dangerous 'pasts' from their earlier days in the orphanage, killed horse thieves, and joined the brotherhood of adventurous fur trappers known today as "Mountain Men". Then when Fate forced them from the field, they discovered a 'circle of life' surrounded by a Frontier Grace…¿"Buck Snort" Toni and "Wind Horse", Mountain Men is an epic story of two intertwined lives, formed by destiny, forged in the fires of the American West and ultimately framed in "Frontier Grace".

Terry Grosz returns to the largely unexplored American West in his fifth historical novel in the Mountain Man series, "The Saga of the Barnes Clan, Mountain Men."Wallace, Oliver, Otis, Cedrick and Sterling, sons of Barnes Clan Patriarch Rufous Barnes, in one day suffer the loss of their father to a heart attack and lose their family farm and Missouri Moonshine business to the Federal Government over unexpected and unpaid whiskey taxes!Thus begins the Saga of the Barnes Clan, forced out of necessity because of family disasters into new beginnings facing their destinies in the unparalleled and often times dangerous American West as Mountain Men fur trappers. What starts out as a new life with the signing of a three-year contract with the American Fur Company as Mountain Men, soon finds destiny rearing its head at every turn in the trail in the form of adventure and deadly misadventure, as the Barnes Clan travels and traps its way across the beauty, danger and savagery of the untamed American West. In following years, adventures of the Barnes Clan includes facing the deadly Blackfeet, Northern Cheyenne, Arikara and Gros Ventre Indians, fierce attacks by the frontier's dominant predator, the grizzly bear, killing adventures with the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trappers hellbent on destroying the livelihood of the Barnes Mountain Men, thefts of valuable traps and horses by Indians and competing fur trappers, freezing to death in blizzards, freezing water temperatures when immersed setting their beaver traps, and the agony of a stray bullet! Throughout the men's fortunes and misfortunes, they never lose sight of their humanity or dream of making enough money to return to their beloved Missouri, buying land and settling down. Their fortunes are ultimately realized both monetarily and in unplanned human surprises, ending in a totally unexpected turn of fate…The Saga of the Barnes Clan, Mountain Men, is an epic story of the life and times of a close-knit family of Mountain Men, who rise from the ash heap of humanity, struggle throughout an adventurous and many times dangerous life, finding 'life' once again, then upon returning to the 'smoothness of West Tennessee Moonshine', discovering fate dealing an unexpected hand…

Ride the wildlife outlaw trail with Federal Conservation Officer, Terry Grosz, and "live" his real life adventures in the deadly and savage world of wildlife law enforcement. In this last book of the series, age and dimming memories are bringing to a close Terry's life's adventures as a wildlife officer, putting those in the business of extinction out of business.Work undercover during the fabled Abalone Wars of the Pacific Coast of California; target shooters in Missouri slaughtering mourning dove over baited fields; work covertly in freezing weather in South Dakota on the largest illegal Canada goose killing operation in the history of the state; fight the wildlife import/export border wars along the Canadian border; enjoy a magical moment with a Black Wolf in Colorado; seize illegal walrus ivory; arrest motorcycle gang members; threaten a crooked cop and other real life action tales await the reader in this latest book.This is first person wildlife law enforcement at its living best as told by a solitary lawman protecting those in the world of wildlife for over a thirty-two-year period who had little or no voice.

Terry Grosz goes back to his early years as a California State Fish and Game Warden in Volume One. Poachers commit wholesale slaughter on innocent creatures, and catching them has been sometimes dangerous, sometimes humorous, but always vital to species survival. Terry Grosz dealt with set-guns, cold stakeouts, and unusual detective work to catch the most dedicated of animal killers. And at last, Terry Grosz writes about "The Ronald Reagan Factor" and other political obstacles to wildlife law enforcement. Terry Grosz's memoirs have excited thousands of readers, and have been valuable in the instruction of the next generation of wildlife law enforcement officers. Terry Grosz has been a champion for those in the world of wildlife who have little or no voice and those Americans yet to come.

In "Wildlife Wars," Terry Grosz serves up fascinating stories-alternately hair-raising, hilarious, and heart-wrenching-from his 30-year struggle to protect wildlife in America. A natural storyteller, Grosz writes about the remarkable characters he met-on both sides of the law-as he matched wits with elk poachers, salmon snaggers, commercial-market duck hunters, and a host of other law-breakers. Best of all, though, these stories are so remarkably entertaining you won't want to put them down. Wildlife Wars is the winner of the 2000 National Outdoor Book Award, Nature and the Environment Category.

In 1829, Jacob and Martin left Kentucky to become Mountain Men, trappers of the Rocky Mountains. The rugged mountains that lay beyond America's frontier remained mostly unexplored. In those days, when beaver were plentiful and the buffalo roamed freely, the killing was good. The two young men would also find that life would be hardscrabble in the high frontier. They would face grizzly bears and hostile Indians. And they would risk horse wrecks and mountain storms to trade their furs each year at "rendezvous." Crossed Arrows is the story of two adventurers who lived hard in the earliest days of the Wild West.

In the 1830s, Jack Kelly is an Irish lad sold into indentured servitude. Jack's master turns out to be a mean-tempered drunk in frontier St. Louis and treats him harshly. There, Jack learns how to hunt, shoot a bow and arrow, trap, and throw a Tomahawk superbly-gaining his nickname "Hatchet Jack." One day, Jack's master beats him to within an inch of his life. Jack vows to escape to the untamed West to become a Mountain Man fur trapper. Thus begins an adventure involving turncoat fellow trappers, deadly betrayal, death on the frontier, battles with hostile Blackfoot Indians, loss, love, fortune, and an ultimate surprise. The Adventures of Hatchet Jack is an epic story of the life and times of a Mountain Man when the West was young, dangerous and yet beautiful beyond compare ... told only as Terry Grosz can tell it.

Terry Grosz returns to the unexplored American West in his ninth Mountain Man novel, "Elliott "Bear Scat" Sutta, Mountain Man." Sixteen-year-old Elliott Sutta is sent out by his father to kill a deer for future family meals. Killing the biggest deer in his life, Elliott's joy is short-lived when he is swooped down upon by a tornado, which 'whirls away' his deer and leaves him battered and bruised without family or farm, all destroyed by the airborne killer. Elliott finds himself alone and soon hunted by old friends who realize that he has discovered a hoard of Spanish silver dollars hidden in his father's "Posthole Bank"! Thus begins Elliott's adventures as a man and fur trapper in the wilderness, attempting to find his fur trapper brother Jacob. As a 'greenhorn', he finds himself betrayed by trappers posing as friends who soon abandon him on the prairie! There he faces starvation and then a chance meeting with a mentor occurs. In the years that followed, "Bear Scat" faces capture by the deadly Sioux, becomes a Mountain Man in the territory of the deadly Blackfeet, faces grizzly bear attacks, 'moose madness', deadly Indian battles, experiences heartaches in opportunities lost trying to find his elusive brother, is engaged in a deadly fight with white trappers resulting in a sad loss, all ending in an unexpected surprise! Elliott "Bear Scat" Sutta, Mountain Man is an epic story of the life and times of a Mountain Man who rises from the ashes and tries to find his brother in an unexplored West that was young, dangerous and yet beautiful beyond compare, told only as a man can tell it who "was there"…

Terry Grosz returns to the unexplored and many times dangerous early American West in his sixth mountain man novel, The Adventurous Life of Tom "Iron Hand" Warren, Mountain Man. Tom Warren, a giant of a man in stature and physical strength, experiencing a deadly tragedy, turns to his new life as a mountain man in the largely unexplored mountain west, facing its many dangers in an attempt to forget his earlier life. Tom soon discovers new friendships among his kind at historic Fort Union, matched only by subsequent dangers and challenges from grizzly bears, renegade fur trappers, an Indian out to kill him and the rescue of an Indian maiden in distress which gains him more deadly enemies. He achieved the name of "Iron Hand" because of his immense strength in battle and is so honored by the fierce Blackfeet Nation as a sign of respect and in that new life, gains a son and ends his adventures with a violent surprise that will eventually leave his readers with a smile as they too find themselves "chasing the winds of destiny"...Terry Grosz was a Conservation Law Enforcement Officer for 32 years, initially for the State of California and later with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He has written fourteen memoirs and seven historical novels. His memoir, "Wildlife Wars" was a National Outdoor Book Award winner for the nature and environment category. A number of his memoir stories were broadcast as a docudrama on the Animal Planet series.

Harlan Waugh is a lone Mountain Man. He hunts in the Rocky Mountains of the early 1830s. Two Crow Indian boys in need of a family cross his path, and Harlan adopts them and teaches them the ways of beaver trapping and buffalo hunting. In their travels, they befall one cruelty after another, until the Mountain Man can't stand it anymore. If Harlan takes a liking to your miserable carcass, he is a friend for life. But break the unwritten laws of the Western Frontier or the principles of humanity, he will hunt you down as ruthlessly as only a Mountain Man can. In a lawless land, justice must come from the hands of a tireless vigilante such as this.

In The Thin Green Line, Terry Grosz stays closer to home with a major piece on a massive undercover sting operation that netted more than one hundred arrests for poaching and illegal wild game crimes. These arrests led to the conviction of almost all those caught and at least temporarily halted the vast slaughter of wildlife in Colorado's San Juan Valley. Other stories are more personal and complete a portrait of this dedicated conservation veteran.

In No Safe Refuge, Terry Grosz continues the chronicle of his remarkable career defending America's wild creatures from those hunters, poachers, and commercial market hunters who just didn't know when to stop. Since his first days as a game warden in 1966, Terry Grosz has been fighting against the business of extinction.

Josiah Pike, a captive of the Lakota, Sioux, came into manhood the hard way…a slave, an outcast, a young man constantly tested…who finally proved himself as a warrior among a people being driven and overwhelmed by a force they didn't understand and came to despise.A turbulent story of man against man, man against the elements, and oft-times, man against himself… who he was, who he found himself to be, and who he eventually evolved into. Terry Grosz is a man who understands the outdoors as few men do, who worked the west all his life, often alone in weather and wild country that few men would willingly face. Don't miss this intense tale of the west.