Mary Richardson McBee

Of Norse/Scottish descent, born and raised in the upper rural Midwest, Mary has long had concerns about the enormous impact of humans upon this planet.

At the age of thirty, Mary and her two amalgate Native American children migrated to the west and southwest. During the 1970's while in Colorado, she became deeply involved with the survival of wolves and other large predators in the wild, animals at that time fast disappearing from the vast western landscapes. While living near Lake Mead and western Grand Canyon with her National Park Service husband, Don McBee, during the early 1970's and again throughout the 1980's, Mary spent years hiking, back country exploring, interviewing, and intensely researching the human history of this remote and fascinating high desert country, all of which resulted in this inclusive work.

The author left the Long Shadow lands in 1990 and since has shared time between her native Heartland in Iowa, family, and continued roaming of her beloved Southwest.