Of Wolves and Men
Page 34
federal policies for, 291
see also reintroduction of wolves
wolfing, 178-80
for sport, 153-66
“Wolf in the Dust, The,” 257
“Wolf in the Kennel, The,” 252
wolflike canids, 14
Wolf Man (Cheyenne), 119
Wolf-man (Freud patient), 267
“Wolf-man, The,” 269
wolf moss, 113
wolf mother, benevolent, 226, 246m, 248-49
“Wolf of Chungshan Mountain, The,” 261
Wolf Road, 132
wolf’s bane, 208
“Wolf’s Breakfast, The,” 262
“wolf’s head, the,” 208
Wolf Star, 133m
Wolf Star (Pawnee), 102
wolf star (Sirius), 132
“Wolf, the Sheep and the Lamb, The,” 253
“Wolf Tracker,” 193
“Wolves, The,” 268
wolves as individuals, 3, 18, 34, 82-84
wolves as prey, 27, 29
“Wolves Eating Caribou,” 84
wolves killing wolves, 4, 29, 51-52, 66, 100
Wolves of Mount McKinley, The (Murie), 224, 290
Wolves of North America, The (Young, Goldman), 223, 290
Woman Who Lived with Wolves, 121-22
Wood Buffalo National Park, 58
Wyoming, 71m, 290
yearling wolves, 28, 36, 85, 101
Yellow Wolf, 118
Yellowstone National Park, 290
Yes and No Stories, 261
Young, Arthur, 172-73
Young, Stanley, 180, 192, 223, 288, 290, 292
Young Wolf Medicine Society, 120
Ysengrimus, 259
Yukon, 195
Yury, Saint. See George, Saint
Zeus, 231, 232
Zimen, Eric, 169
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Page 8: Adult female, by John Bauguess.
Page 76: Pre-Columbian wolf mask, Key Marco, Florida. From collections of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.
Page 136: Skull of three-year-old male, from Brooks Range, Alaska, by John Bauguess.
Page 202: Representation of the beast of Gévaudan, illustrator unknown, 1756. From The Werewolf, by Montague Summers. © 1966 by University Books, Inc. Published by arrangement with Lyle Stuart.
The photographs on pages 8, 22, 23, 24, 34-35, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 91, 103, 125, 136, 151, and 190 are by John Bauguess.
Page 15: Barry Lopez.
Page 20: James Cloutier.
Page 28: Barry Lopez.
Pages 42 and 43: Fred H. Harrington. Art by Donald Johnson.
Pages 51, 60, and 68: Barry Lopez.
Page 84: Peter Niego.
Page 96: Courtesy of National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution.
Page 107: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
Page 117: From Walter McClintock, The Old North Trail: Life Legends and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians, by permission of the University of Nebraska Press.
Page 130: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
Page 141: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, photograph courtesy of the Wildlife Management Institute.
Page 155: Courtesy of North Dakota Game and Fish Department and Mrs. Ted Pope, Amidon, North Dakota.
Page 161: Walter M. Baumhofer.
Page 165: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
Page 174: Courtesy of Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.
Pages 181 and 183: National Archives.
Page 207: The Pierpont Morgan Library.
Page 214: Agence TOP, Paris.
Page 217: The Pierpont Morgan Library.
Page 228: By Dorothy Fitch, from Book of Fabulous Beasts, by A. M. Smyth (London: Oxford University Press, 1939).
Page 235: By Maurice Sand, from The Werewolf by Montague Summers. © 1966 by University Books, Inc. Published by arrangement with Lyle Stuart.
Page 245: Courtesy of Harvard University Press.
Page 248: City Museum, Leeds, England.
Page 260: Clockwise from upper left: by Thomas Bewick, from Fables of Aesop with Designs on Wood by Thomas Bewick, © 1975 Paddington Press Ltd.; by Alexander Calder, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Monroe Wheeler, 1949; by Charles H. Bennett, from Fables of Aesop, compiled by Willis L. Parker, J.J. Little and Ives Co.; by Arthur Rackham, from Aesop’s Fables, compiled by V S. Vernon Jones, Wlliam Heinemann Ltd.
Page 265: By Gustave Doré. From French Fairy Tales.
Page 274: By Hans Gerhard Sørensen, from Of Gods and Giants, by Harald Hveberg, Forlaget Tanum, Norli a.s.
A Biography of Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez (b. 1945) is the author of thirteen works of fiction and nonfiction including his landmark study of the Far North, Arctic Dreams, and several collections of essays and short stories. He writes regularly for a variety of magazines including Harper’s and National Geographic, and his work is frequently anthologized in such collections as Best American Essays, Best American Non-Required Reading, Best Spiritual Writing, and the “best-of” collections periodically issued by Outside, the Paris Review, Orion, the Georgia Review, and other publications.
He is a recipient of the National Book Award, the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing, the Christopher Award for humanitarian writing, the Friends of American Writers Award in fiction, and major awards from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Association of American Geographers, and the New York Public Library. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, the Lannan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Parents’ Choice Awards. He is an elected Fellow of the Explorers Club and serves on the honorary boards of Theater Grottesco in Santa Fe, the Mountain Lion Foundation, Cities of Refuge, and Reader to Reader, among other groups and institutions.
Lopez grew up in agricultural Southern California and New York City, attended college in the Midwest, and has lived in rural Oregon since 1968. His work has taken him to nearly seventy countries and he has spent long periods of time in the field with research scientists and traditional hunters in such places as the interior of Antarctica, northern Kenya, the Canadian Arctic, and the Northern Territory in Australia.
Lopez is often described as a travel or nature writer but his work is difficult to categorize. His principal concern in nonfiction is the relationship between human societies and the places they occupy; in his fiction, his characters deal most often with issues of personal identity and intimacy. He has also been described as a philosopher and social critic.
In both his fiction and nonfiction, Lopez draws heavily on the thinking of indigenous peoples, most often Native Americans, Eskimos, and Aborigines. His New York Times bestseller, Crow and Weasel, an illustrated fable, is steeped in indigenous North American tradition, and his pioneering work on wolves, Of Wolves and Men, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the National Book Award, devotes several chapters to Native American and Eskimo perceptions of Canis lupus.
After a benign encounter with a polar bear in the Chukchi Sea in 1981, Lopez, who until then had been a landscape photographer and writer, put his cameras away. (He explains why in an essay called “Learning to See” in About This Life.) He has continued, however, to work with a loose-knit group of photographers, composers, painters, playwrights, and other artists and artisans on a range of projects. He collaborates regularly with book artists, for example, on fine-press limited editions of his writing, and recently worked alongside ceramist Richard Rowland to design a reconciliation ceremony between the Comanche Nation and Texas Tech University. (He wrote about Rowland in an essay called “Effleurage,” also in About This Life.)
Although he rarely teaches, Barry Lopez has been, the distinguished visiting scholar at Texas Tech University since 2003, where his papers are archived in the Sowell Family Collection in Litera
ture, Community and the Natural World. He works regularly with graduate and undergraduate students there, both in class and on field trips. In 1989, he was the W. Harold and Martha Welch visiting chair in American studies at the University of Notre Dame, and in 2006, he was the Glenn distinguished professor at Washington and Lee University.
In recent years, Lopez has turned his attention increasingly toward the plight of humanity in various parts of the world and to the impact of globalization, war, and climate change on the spiritual and social lives of both modern and traditional peoples. He is currently at work on a book about his travel experiences.
Learn more about the author at www.barrylopez.com.
Lopez in 1948 in California’s San Fernando Valley. The rider third from left is his mother, Mary, who, incidentally, made the shirt he is wearing.
Lopez at Christmas circa 1951. From left: family friend Grace Van Sheck; Lopez’s younger brother, Dennis; their mother, Mary; and Lopez. Grace’s husband was Sidney Van Sheck, who had been Mary’s first husband. The Van Shecks befriended Mary and her sons after Mary divorced the boys’ father. (Photo courtesy of Sidney Van Sheck.)
Lopez as a junior at Loyola School, a Jesuit preparatory school in New York City, in 1961.
Lopez as a junior at the University of Notre Dame, having dinner at the home of Odey and Nettie Cassell with his roommate Pete Lewis in February 1965. This was one of several visits Lopez made to the Cassells’ farm near Cass, West Virginia, which he later wrote about. (Photo courtesy of Pete Lewis.)
Lopez (right) with Alaska Department of Fish and Game wolf biologist Robert Stephenson, radio-collaring sedated wolves in Nelchina Basin, Alaska, in March 1976. (Photo courtesy of Craig Lofstedt.)
Lopez carrying a sedated eight-year-old female wolf in Nelchina Basin, Alaska, in March 1976. Field biologist Robert Stephenson is behind Lopez, who is conducting research for Of Wolves and Men. (Photo courtesy of Craig Lofstedt.)
Lopez at an undisturbed Anasazi ruin on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon while on a 1982 expedition with anthropologists Robert Euler and Trinkle Jones. (Photo courtesy of Robert Euler.)
Lopez on the upper Boro River in Botswana in 1987. The group of seven with whom he was traveling was attacked by this wounded male hippo. While others attempted to maneuver their boats around the highly territorial animal, Lopez (left) and his friend Ben (right) kept the hippo distracted on the opposite side of the river. (Photo courtesy of Michele Chapman and Margaret Stemp.)
Lopez (left) in a sterile clean suit, with then-Senator Al Gore (right) at a drilling site for ice cores at 6,000 feet on Newell Glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica, in November 1988. Gore traveled to this remote site to acquaint himself with ice-core drilling technology and the field processing of uncontaminated sections of ice core, which would later provide data for the study of global climate change.
Lopez at camp about twenty kilometers from the South Pole during an expedition to collect snow samples in Antarctica in 1988. The temperature was -29°F.
Lopez in situ with a sixty-eight-pound meteorite on the Polar Plateau at about 88° south in December 1998. Lopez and the five meteoriticists he was traveling with established an unheated field camp at Graves Nunataks, about 120 miles from the South Pole. During their field season, the group found and collected 192 meteorites.
Lopez (left) with expedition leader John Schutt in the Transantarctic Mountains in December 1998, at the start of a forty-five-day field season, picking out a route across a crevasse field to Graves Nunataks, the expedition’s destination.
Left to right: Juanita Pahdopony of Comanche Nation College; Comanche tribal chairman Wallace Coffey; Lopez; and Kim Winkelman, president of Comanche Nation College, at a reconciliation ceremony between Texas Tech University and the Comanche Nation at the Comanche tribal headquarters in Lawton, Oklahoma, in September 2007.
Lopez (left) with Archbishop Desmond Tutu (right) at the second Quest for Global Healing conference in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, in May 2006.
Lopez with his wife, Debra Gwartney, and his stepdaughters. Left to right: Amanda, Mary, Stephanie, Debra, Mollie, and Barry, at Stephanie’s home in Alford, Massachusetts, on the occasion of her graduation as an Ada Comstock Scholar from Smith College, in 2010. (Photo courtesy of Otis Lougheed.)
Lopez and Debra with their grandchildren, Ezabelle and Owen Knight, at the couple’s home on the west slope of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains in 2011. (Photo courtesy of Amanda Woodruff.)
Lopez with his grandson, Owen Knight, at the USS Arizona Memorial, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 2012. (Photo courtesy of Debra Gwartney.)
Lopez and Debra at a rooftop restaurant in Istanbul, Turkey, with Hagia Sofia in the background, in May 2012.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Memorial University of Newfoundland for permission to quote from Georg Henriksen, Hunters in the Barrens: the Naskapi on the Edge of the White Man’s World, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1973; and to Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., for permission to quote from Frank B. Linderman, American, pp. 262–65, copyright 1930, 1957 by Frank Linderman.
Photograph p. 151 copyright © 975 John Bauguess; photographs pp. 8, 22–24, 34, 35, 40, 41, 44–46, 91, 103, 125, 136, 190 copyright © 1979 John Bauguess.
Copyright © 1978 by Barry Holstun Lopez
Afterword and bibliography copyright © 2004 Barry Holstun Lopez
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