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Trail Creek: A North Fork Saga
A terrific account of life in the last remaining American Wilderness in1940's Montana. Trail Creek follows a brave author and his young wife from post world war Milwaukee to the far reaches of civilization in the North Fork of the Flathead River, Montana. Struggling against an impossible nature, the couple start a tragically beautiful life told in poetic chapters with rich detail of love, animals and the elements of homesteading North West Montana."My Walden Years" - In 1946, fresh from the battlefields of World War II, a 26 year-old Dan Block, fancying himself a knight in shining armor, sets off to homestead the wilds of northwest Montana with his young bride, a truck full of mink cages, and a dream carved from the bones of wilderness.
What follows is a breathtaking and heart felt chronicle of homestead life on the last American a place where snow falls six feet deep, bears roam the woods, and where only the night sky is crowded. Through firewood shortages, frozen pipes, lost horses, wild neighbors, and trout-filled streams, Dan and GeRayne carve a life from scratch on the old Price homestead near Trail Creek - fifty miles from town and a thousand miles from comfort.
Told with wit, wisdom, and an unflinching eye for detail, Trail Creek is more than a survival memoir - it's a love story, a coming-of-age tale, and a tribute to the forgotten art of making do, holding fast, and finding joy in the hardest places.
It is truly the best of non-fiction Wilderness Literature.
The Legacy of Dr. Daniel G. Block
A gifted writer, educator and natural storyteller, Dan later became a professor sharing his passion for biology, literature, wilderness and self-reliance with generations of students. Trail A North Fork Saga is his vivid memoir of those early, hard, unforgettable years - a tribute to adventure, his marriage, a one-of-a-kind life and the last true frontier.
With a voice as clear as a mountain stream and prose as enduring as the timbers of his hand-hewn cabin, Dan captures the American Wilderness experience like few writers ever have. His work belongs on the shelf beside Thoreau and Leopold - yet it remains entirely his funny, unvarnished, lyrical, and brimming with hard-earned wisdom. Trail Creek isn’t just a memoir; it’s a masterwork of literature, authentic and resonant.
What follows is a breathtaking and heart felt chronicle of homestead life on the last American a place where snow falls six feet deep, bears roam the woods, and where only the night sky is crowded. Through firewood shortages, frozen pipes, lost horses, wild neighbors, and trout-filled streams, Dan and GeRayne carve a life from scratch on the old Price homestead near Trail Creek - fifty miles from town and a thousand miles from comfort.
Told with wit, wisdom, and an unflinching eye for detail, Trail Creek is more than a survival memoir - it's a love story, a coming-of-age tale, and a tribute to the forgotten art of making do, holding fast, and finding joy in the hardest places.
It is truly the best of non-fiction Wilderness Literature.
The Legacy of Dr. Daniel G. Block
A gifted writer, educator and natural storyteller, Dan later became a professor sharing his passion for biology, literature, wilderness and self-reliance with generations of students. Trail A North Fork Saga is his vivid memoir of those early, hard, unforgettable years - a tribute to adventure, his marriage, a one-of-a-kind life and the last true frontier.
With a voice as clear as a mountain stream and prose as enduring as the timbers of his hand-hewn cabin, Dan captures the American Wilderness experience like few writers ever have. His work belongs on the shelf beside Thoreau and Leopold - yet it remains entirely his funny, unvarnished, lyrical, and brimming with hard-earned wisdom. Trail Creek isn’t just a memoir; it’s a masterwork of literature, authentic and resonant.
352 pages, Hardcover
Published June 4, 2026
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June 23, 2026
“Man always kills the thing he loves… said Aldo Leopold.
Dan Block's book embodies that with poetic philosophy and first hand, hard earned knowledge of life of the last American frontier. It's a wonderful book, a marvelously described, life-affirming account with an undertone of tragic loss. Simply profound.
Dan Block's book embodies that with poetic philosophy and first hand, hard earned knowledge of life of the last American frontier. It's a wonderful book, a marvelously described, life-affirming account with an undertone of tragic loss. Simply profound.
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