| Darryl Patton—Author
Mountain Medicine: The Herbal Remedies
of Tommie Bass
Darryl Patton is also the author of Tommie
Bass: Herb Doctor of Shinbone Ridge, America’s
Goat Man (Mr. Ches McCartney), and co-author of Grandpa
Whiting’s Mountain Medicine. Darryl has been featured
in FoxFire Magazine as well as on Public Broadcasting
Service and Comedy Central.
For 12 years, he was privileged to study under
the late A.L. “Tommie” Bass, one of the last of
the old mountain herb doctors. During this time, Tommie taught
Darryl the identification and uses for literally thousands
of the plants found on the mountains of Appalachia. It is
this passion for plants and the folk characters of America’s
past that led Darryl to research and write Mountain Medicine.
Currently an adjunct faculty member of Clayton College of
Natural Health, Darryl is in demand as a speaker on the identification
and historical uses of herbs as medicine.
A past publisher of Wilderness Way Magazine,
Darryl is the editor and publisher of Stalking The Wild…The
Magazine of Outdoor Discovery, The Southern Herbalist,
and co-founder of Wild Alabama, a nationally recognized
environmental magazine.
Primitive and wilderness survival skills, outdoorsman,
adventure traveler, herbalist—you name it and Darryl
does it. He is a member of Randall’s Adventure Training
and is a veteran of many trips to the Peruvian Amazon where
he graduated from the Peruvian Air Force’s Jungle Operations
and Survival School. He has instructed classes and training
seminars on primitive and wilderness survival skills.
Living with his wife Jane on Lookout Mountain,
not far from Tommie’s shack, Darryl operates a wilderness
survival training school in the mountains of north Alabama.
He can be reached by writing P.O. Box 8481, Gadsden, AL 35402.
On the internet, you can visit his Web site at www.stalkingthewild.com
for more information. |
