Morning Comes to Elk Mountain: Dispatches from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge (Southwestern Nature Writing Series)

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Organized as a series of monthly journal entries, Morning Comes to Elk Mountain is Lantz’s response to ten years of exploring the rough and unexpected wonderful thing about the Wichita Mountains Flora and fauna Refuge. A combination of memoir, natural history, Native American history, and geology, this book is enriched by 20 color photos and a map to appeal to the seasoned visitor in addition to the newcomer to the refuge.

The national Flora and fauna refuge that’s the focal point of the book used to be some of the first established by President Theodore Roosevelt. He helped save the Wichitas from miners and land speculators, and as an alternative the harsh yet scenic area became the nation’s first bison refuge, established to keep this American icon from slipping into extinction.

As of late the refuge hosts more than 1,000,000 visitors a year, most of them coming to hike the trails, climb the rocks, photograph bison and prairie dogs, or simply commune with a beautiful, wild area that remains a non secular landscape for the Kiowa and Comanche Indians who call it home.

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