Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-384) and index.

"In December, 1998, San Antonio Express-News reporter Philip True vanished during a solo backcountry trek in western Mexico, home of the reclusive Huichol Indians and the Chapalagana, the Twisted Serpent Canyon, a 150-mile long gash that twists and plunges through the heart of the Sierra Madre. Five days later his editor, Robert Rivard, was part of a small search party that, nearly miraculously, tracked a trail of feathers that had leaked from True's sleeping bag to find his hidden grave." "Trail of Feathers is the story of the search for True and of the quest to find his killers and bring them to justice. It is also the story of another perplexing mystery: Why had True taken such a dangerous trip, into such a raw, uncivilized wilderness, alone and without sufficient safety preparations, in the first place? After an unhappy and unsettled youth, True at the age of fifty had finally settled down to a career and a wife he loved. His first child was about to be born. What was he running from, or to?" "Rivard's search for answers to these questions leads him deep into the Sierra Madre Occidental, one of Mexico's last true wildernesses, and deep into the long-kept secrets of Philip True's past. It also leads him into his own past, into an acknowledgment of the ways in which his life and True's mirrored each other."--BOOK JACKET