Pilgrims of the Wild (His Classic Autobiography)

Grey Owl is often remembered, first, as someone who pretended to be someone else. This is not fair, as it assumes that a confidence job has been enacted against all of us. Grey Owl was truly a fur-trapper, and worked with other fur-trappers, in the very country that he describes so beautifully in this work. He came to love the many faces of the forest so much that he eventually gave up trapping and turned to writing, to share his discovery with others. This happened long before the concept of "conservation" assumed its corrent form. In that time, it was more likely to imply that an area of countryside (probably containing mountains) would be preserved as if encased in plastic. But Grey Owl wrote about the living world.