Doug Peacock

Doug Peacock is a Vietnam veteran, former Green Beret medic, filmmaker, and naturalist known for writing on wilderness issues. He is the real-life model for George Washington Hayduke in Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang. His best-known book is the memoir Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness. His 2022 collection Was it Worth It? A Wilderness Warrior's Long Trail Home was published by Patagonia Books. Whitefish Review has published Peacock's original work, and the journal's materials quote him calling it one of the most refreshing journals to hit the literary scene in years. In September 2022 he read from his new book at a Whitefish Review event in Whitefish, Montana.