The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told; Twenty-Nine Unforgettable Hunting Tales

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Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2000-09-01
Publisher(s): Lyons Press
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Summary

"I don't regard nature as a spectator sport." -Ed Zern, 1985 Hunting is a serious business-but it's also about camaraderie, achievements and failures, seeing new places, and revisiting cherished ones. The true stories here feature a variety of game, in locations that range from high Yukon Territory mountain peaks to lowland swamps off of Mobile Bay, Alabama. This is an indispensable volume for all lovers and students of the natural world. If your definition of home includes fields and marshes, creeks and river bottoms, plains and mountains, consider this required reading.

Author Biography

LAMAR UNDERWOOD, former Editor-in-Chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life magazines, is presently Editorial Director of the Outdoor Magazine Group of Harris Publications in New York. He has edited The Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told, Man Eaters, The Bass Almanac, and The Quotable Soldier. He is the author of the novel, On Dangerous Ground.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Lamar Underwood
Last Shell in the Rifle
1(7)
Ben East
The Dawn Flighting
8(7)
Patrick O'Brian
The Heart of the Game
15(11)
Thomas McGuane
In Fields Near Home
26(17)
Vance Bourjaily
Race at Morning
43(15)
William Faulkner
Spirit of the North
58(7)
Thomas McIntyre
Mister Howard Was a Real Gent
65(17)
Robert C. Ruark
Slim Boggins' Mistake
82(8)
Havilah Babcock
The Black Death
90(5)
Peter Hathaway Capstick
Out on the Land
95(6)
Charles Fergus
The Ninety-Seven
101(6)
John Barsness
To the Open Water
107(8)
Jesse Hill Ford
Pheasants Beyond Autumn
115(8)
John Madson
Tracks to Remember
123(3)
Tom Hennessey
Remembering Shooting-Flying: A Key West Letter
126(6)
Ernest Hemingway
A Bearded Legend: My Best All-Time Trophy
132(10)
Charles Elliot
The Wings of Dawn
142(5)
George Reiger
Susitna Moose Hunt
147(13)
Russell Annabel
Great Morning
160(4)
Gene Hill
Dog Upon the Waters
164(8)
John Taintor Foote
The Game of the High Peaks: The White Goat
172(13)
Theodore Roosevelt
Forty-Crook Branch
185(7)
Tom Kelly
``Pothole Guys, Friz Out''
192(7)
Gordon MacQuarrie
The Forest and the Steppe
199(6)
Ivan Turgenev
Bob White, Down't Aberdeen
205(8)
Nash Buckingham
Rams in the Snow
213(7)
Jack O'Connor
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
220(5)
Robert F. Jones
The Thak Man-Eater
225(36)
Jim Corbett
A Mixed Bag of Zern
261
Ed Zern

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