Carefully researched and skillfully written by award-winning Colorado writer Laura Pritchett, these stories describe the fascinating science and natural history of bears along with gripping tales of deadly and near-death encounters with people.
"A valuable and wide-ranging work of scholarship, love, and respect, Pritchett's book is a great source for the history of bears in Colorado – black and grizzly."
- Rick Bass, author of Why I came West and The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado
"In Great Colorado Bear Stories, prize-winning author Laura Pritchett has clearly done her homework, and then some. Whether your interest is the history of human interactions with grizzly and black bears in Colorado, bear attacks, the avoidance of bear attacks, basic bear biology, techniques for living peacefully with bears as neighbors, or you merely want to read some great Colorado bear yarns, this book is a reliable and highly readable resource"
- David Petersen, author of Ghost Grizzlies: Does the Great Bear Still Haunt Colorado?