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Mount Skook Davidson, 2,382 metres (7,815 ft), [1] is a mountain in the Kechika Ranges of the Cassiar Mountains in far northern British Columbia, Canada. It overlooks the "Diamond J Ranch", which was founded by John Ogilvie Davidson also known as "Skook" Davidson or "Skookum" Davidson because of his stature (big and strong, see skookum ).
A skookum is a variety of mountain giant or monster similar to the Sasquatch or Bigfoot. [3] In the surviving Chinuk-Wawa spoken in Grand Ronde, Oregon, this variant is pronounced differently—skoo-KOOM—but when used in English with this meaning, it is pronounced the same way as the "big and strong" meaning.
Dave Langford reviewed The Skook for White Dwarf #79, and stated that "His escape story is an epic quest in little, beset by extinct creatures of the underworld deep. . Meanwhile, the minor characters glow with life, from Span's semi-nympho wife, to bikers who outdo Charles Manson in nasty inven
Daniel Hernandez, Daniel Michael Hernandez (1980- ) - Mexican-American author of Down & Delirious in Mexico City, (Scribner, 2011) and former correspondent for Vice News Tonight on HBO. Former bureau chief of Vice News in Mexico City. Current culture staff writer at Los Angeles Times, former staff writer at The New York Times.