Includes magic lantern slide show scripts "In the heart of the Canadian Rockies with horse and camera, part I and part II" by Mary S. Warren. Most images used in book were scanned from original lantern slides taken or collected by Mary Schaffer Warren
Pertains to behaviour of bears and interactions with human activity, as told by local residents and visitors to the Canadian Rockies. Features archive, library and art from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Includes bibliographical references - development of Glenbow Museum exhibit featuring "mavericks" in early Alberta history like Emilio Picariello, D.W. Davis, James Mah Poy, Tom Three Persons', Fred McCall, Japanese-Canadians as "enemy aliens"