A Peek into the Life of the Cowboy Archaeologist
As I was fruitlessly trying to find a link on Pricegrabber so you, dear reader, could easily buy Larry Lahren's new book, Homeland: An archaeologist's view of Yellowstone Country's Past (it was privately published so I figured it might be a lost cause), I discovered that there is a cottage industry of personal reminiscences of the park, books with names like Yellowstone Wild and Beautiful, Yellowstone Impressions, Bears I Have Known, Portrait of Yellowstone, and my favorite, Who Pooped in the Park?
The tremendous number of books on Yellowstone is probably not the only reason that Homeland was privately published; its cantankerosity (I'm sure that's a word) and split personality would have driven an editor absolutely mad. Although an editor might have kept Lahren from making some of the rash statements he does about the political machinations that occurred around the excavations at the Anzick Clovis site, the result would have had a completely different flavor from what Lahren has published on his own.
Nevertheless, Lahren's book is a strange, rangy combination of autobiography, cultural history, and cultural resource management site report. Aw, go ahead, pilgrim, read the review.
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