Tracking Down Coyote

by Mike Helm

Haunting, lovely, book blends imagination, sweat, pain and opinion, history myth and legend. 5 by 8" 1990

219 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Megan Koblegarde]

This book was a trek and a half to get through. The first section and last were by far the strongest. The middle however is muddled with diary entry after diary entry of seemingly repetitive motions of Helm as he hikes the trail of his ancestors.
The retellings of the ancient myths and stories of Meek were really interesting and captivating and would have liked more of that than the diary entry’s by Helm. The final section was the shortest but one of the most important. Monkey wrenching tactics on what an individual can do against the big bad timber industry (which I have seen the effects of first hand) and overall political standpoint that no doing anything is the same as supporting the unjust system.
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a man is also a prison”
Oregon really is a magical place. I’m glad to call it home

[David Betz · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this in 1993 at Art Quake. It was lost after several moves and I just found it a few months ago. The book took a little getting used to, the transition from one scene to another were a little jarring. Overall I liked it, though the end made me a bit sad.