Borland, Hal: - Hal Borland (1900-1978) was a nature writer and novelist who produced numerous bestselling books including memoirs and young adult classics, as well as decades of nature writing for the New York Times. Borland considered himself a natural philosopher, and he was interested in exploring the way human life was bound to the greater world of plants, animals, and natural processes.
A Young Man's Search for Identity and His Native Culture Thomas Black Bull was raised in the old ways of his Native American ancestors, off the reservation in the mountainous wilderness of southern Colorado. When tragedy tears him from everything he knows, Thomas is thrust headlong into modern Ameri