![]() ![]() His mother, Kathryn Peacock, said Doug was an outgoing and adventurous child who had spent hours hunting for arrowheads and Indian relics in the Michigan lake country where he grew up. “I had no talent for reentering society.” “I found it easier to talk to bears than priests,” he wrote. Just back from Vietnam, he was weapon-laden and “frenzied on the inside.” He admits to smashing a TV set in a motel room and to blasting a phone booth with a shotgun when it failed to refund his change.įor two years, Peacock didn’t talk to anyone. When Peacock left his parents’ Michigan home and drove his Jeep West in 1968, no tourist would have dared shake his hand. ![]() The book is not so much about macho heroics (although the death-defying encounters in Vietnam and grizzly country are vivid), but about redemption. The Peacock myth is bound to grow with the recent release of his book “Grizzly Years” (Henry Holt & Co., $22.95), an account of the author’s years spent befriending and defending grizzlies in the back country of Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks. ![]() For instance, Outside Magazine called Peacock “a legendary celebrity of anti-development politics.” And the Montana essayist William Kittredge says Peacock is “a legendary environmental warrior.” ![]()
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