Bill Pinnell and Morris Talifson created a world-famous legacy for Alaska bear hunters. They have guided over 1000 big game sportsmen since 1949, including princes and diplomats, some of the world's most famous outdoorsmen, and big game hunters from every walk of life. And their clients have accounted for one-third of all Kodiak Brown Bear listed in Records of North American Big Game, published by the Boone and Crockett Club of New York. No other guides in Alaska's history have ever matched the P&T record-book success, and probably none ever will. Pinnell and Talifson truly are the LAST OF THE GREAT BROWN BEAR MEN

The rigors of nature, the excitement of the stalk, and the total thrill of the hunt are recorded in this book written by one who has experienced many hunts with Bill Pinnell and Morris Talifson. These are not tales of simply killing huge Kodiak Brown Bear, but contain the very essence of outdoor life as Pinnell and Talifson have known it for over half of a century. Their story begins in Montana where they were fur farmers, and relates many memories of the hardships they endured as vagabond gold miners during the Great Depression. Those hardships formed the two guides of Olga Bay, and this book tells how they have become the last great vestiges of a bygone era left on Kodiak Island.