Smokey Bear: The Cub Who Left His Pawprints on History

This is the first novel written about the real bear cub who survived a forest fire high in the New Mexican mountains to become the living representative of his namesake, the icon Smokey Bear, famous for preserving wildlife and wilderness.
As the story opens, the runt of a black bear litter witnesses a mountain lion’s attack on his littermates. Despite this trauma, the cub is rambunctious enough to venture out of his mother’s den and risk attack by an adult male bear.
His early days learning h...