By the time Parker showed up, Trevor had recovered sufficiently to lead them on a nine week “species tour of the Rockies,” as Parker referred to it. His observations, sketches and paintings were lauded in the press and in academic circles. All told, he documented over a thousand new varieties of plant and animal life.
Parker went on to became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He eventually headed their Ornithology Department. He was a prominent member of the American Philosophical Society and a fellow of the Linnaean Society, where he rose to the position of vice president.
Robert Parker never married. He led a quiet, scholarly life. For thirty years he lived in a small house near the university. His most prized possession, according to friends and acquaintances, was a painting he hung in his bedroom.
It was not a painting of the birds he loved so much or any of the animals or plants he discovered. It was a painting of a woman, and all who saw it praised it as the best painting he ever did. He was offered large sums of money for it, but he refused to sell. No one ever learned the woman’s name. All Parker would tell them was that she was a Flathead.
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#1: KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
#2: LURE OF THE WILD
#3: SAVAGE RENDEZVOUS
#4: BLOOD FURY
#5: TOMAHAWK REVENGE
#6: BLACK POWDER JUSTICE
#7: VENGEANCE TRAIL
#8: DEATH HUNT
#9: MOUNTAIN DEVIL HAWKEN FURY (Giant Edition)
#10: BLACKFOOT MASSACRE
#11: NORTHWEST PASSAGE
#12: APACHE BLOOD
#13: MOUNTAIN MANHUNT
#14: TENDERFOOT
#15: WINTERKILL
#16: BLOOD TRUCE
#17: TRAPPER’S BLOOD
#18: MOUNTAIN CAT
#19: IRON WARRIOR
#20: WOLF PACK
#21: BLACK POWDER
#22: TRAIL’S END
#23: THE LOST VALLEY
#24: MOUNTAIN MADNESS
#25: FRONTIER MAYHEM
#26: BLOOD FEUD
#27: GOLD RAGE
#28: THE QUEST
#29: MOUNTAIN NIGHTMARE
#30: SAVAGES
#31: BLOOD KING
#32: THE WESTWARD TIDE
#33: FANG AND CLAW
#34: TRACKDOWN
#35: FRONTIER FURY
#36: THE TEMPEST
#37: PERILS OF THE WIND
#38: MOUNTAIN MAN
#39: FIREWATER
#40: SCAR
#41: BY DUTY BOUND
#42: FLAMES OF JUSTICE
#43: VENGEANCE
#44: SHADOW REALMS
#45: IN CRUEL CLUTCHES
#46: UNTAMED COUNTRY
#47: REAP THE WHIRLWIND
#48: LORD GRIZZLY
#49: WOLVERINE
#50: PEOPLE OF THE FOREST (Giant Edition)
#51: COMANCHE MOON
#52: GLACIER TERROR
#53: THE RISING STORM
#54: PURE OF HEART
#55: INTO THE UNKNOWN
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