Zane Grey & the Model 1895 Winchester
What Zane Grey termed as the “Tonto Rim” in Arizona is officially the Mogollon Rim, named for Juan Ignacio Flores de Mogollon (pronounced ‘muggy-own’) who was capitan-general of Spanish-held New Mexico back in the early 1700s. The Rim, which is now home to a...
Zane Grey’s Guns
Zane Grey, who became one of America’s most successful authors, hunted the “Tonto Rim” of Arizona for most of a decade with Model 1895 Winchesters in .30 Government (.30-06). What Zane Grey termed the Tonto Rim in Arizona is officially the Mogollon Rim,...
America’s Best Trout Streams
The middle of the night is a wonderful time to go fishing. No matter how heavy the flow, we can wade to the most advantageous position. Our casts unfurl with uncanny precision, and flies drift wakelessly until the dimpled take. It is then that slashing rainbows,...
A Christmas Present
The colorful flats around Christmas Island are the world’s best place to fly fish for giant trevally.
Dorsal Fins On the Cape
Was that a great white that swam by in the Cape Cod darkness?
Tigers In the Surf
Angry breakers guarded the Devil’s Elbow of Padre Island’s wild and remote beaches. Watch out, others had warned us, or the surf will eat you alive. Billy Sandifer, a three-tour veteran of Vietnam and now a surf-fishing guide, faced the roaring whitecaps...
The Romance of Brandywine
The men and women who studied under Howard Pyle all but dominated American illustration during the first half of the 20th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, Howard Pyle of Wilmington, Delaware, was most popular illustrator in America. He had only one...
Poetic Soul On Painted Sea
John Doyle sees the ocean as one of the last frontiers where man can test his courage. John Doyle once showed me a photo from his boyhood in the mid-’40s. The picture was of him, standing next to a string of five largemouth bass that his father had caught on a...