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Resilience, Romance, and the Raw Beauty of Big Sky Country Revealed in Montana Memoir

Trail Creek: A North Fork Saga

By Daniel G. Block (Indie author/North Air Entertainment, 2025)

Genre: Non-fiction – Memoir

Pages (print): 334

Via: Author request

Note: We received a complimentary copy of this book for honest review.

Other note: Trail Creek wasOriginally written by the late Dr. Daniel G. Block, professor of Biology at the University of Montana, Western and carefully edited and prepared for publication by his grandson, Zach Block with the assistance of the North Fork Landowners Association.”

“Some day we will return – and cry together.”

Throw another log on the fire and grab a hot cuppa for this highly readable and imminently engaging memoir by the late Daniel G. Block, educator, biologist, and natural storyteller.  As bright as a summer sun and as big as a Montana sky, this true story of love, life, and adventure on “the last true frontier” pulls at the heartstrings as it whispers of memories of early, unforgettable years on the North Fork of the Flathead River in Montana and the “tonic of the wilderness.” Set largely in the post-WWII years of 1946 through the early 1950s, Trail Creek: A North  Fork Saga is Walden-esque and Walton-esque in both style and substance.

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