Hawks Rest

“Dazzling…an Edward Abbey–esque book, full of snappy vignettes and chiseled writing.”

—SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

“Among the many pleasures of re-reading Gary Ferguson’s Hawks Rest is finding the prose even more accomplished than remembered, the wit more agile, the observations more revelatory, its stance in the world proved once again so precisely wise. Hawks Rest is a book I will return to again and again.”

—MARK SPRAGG, author of Where Rivers Change Direction and An Unfinished Life

“Gary Ferguson is one of the preeminent historians of the American West, and of the place and value of wilderness within that history. Hawks Rest is an intense journal of the politics and ecology of one of America’s wildest cores, in Yellowstone National Park. In many ways, this book is an important portrait of one of the foundations of our country’s democracy, and of the struggles to hold on to that idea.”

—RICK BASS, author of All the Land to Hold Us

“Hawks Rest is a long step toward a user’s guide to wilderness, and a reverential and beautifully said hymn to the wild.”

—TIM CAHILL, author of Hold the Enlightenment and Jaguars Ripped My Flesh

“Mournful and defiant as a wolf howl…an eloquent tribute to a threatened place and its lone protectors.”

—LOS ANGELES TIMES