Ben shouted the Indian’s name until his throat became raw. Much later, on the far side of the camp in rock shadows, he found a note held down and partially hidden by rock. Ben Choat, the lean, dark-skinned river guide, met the old Indian at the railing entrance...
I point, the bird goes into the air, the hunter shoots — and the hunter misses. I love to point birds, and whether I raise a front or rear leg and point with my nose and a prolonged fixed stare, the obvious result is I point. For you hoomans who think dogs must point...
He returned to find that someone had broken into his house . . . the only thing missing was the Parker. Red Timmons disappeared while hunting chukar partridge on a cold day in January. According to Sheriff Charlotte Beingasser, he drowned in the Salmon River, a few...
Each day’s end brought fear and a sense of unease to the small ranching community of Center City, Texas in the fall of 1903. Whispered throughout, the terrible term “El Tigre.” Warner Glenn knelt on the shallow tracks of the desert floor, carefully...
Still ruled by the spirits of Mayan kings, Mexico’s Espiritu Santo Bay is a timeless place of ancient temples, unexplored tropical forests alive with strange and wondrous creatures, and hidden lagoons where on some days, eager bonefish snatch every fly tossed...
Whether he was shooting grouse or skeet, painting bird dogs or promoting wildlife conservation, William Harnden Foster never wavered in his unrelenting pursuit of perfection. I would like to have known William Harnden Foster — hunted with him, sat in his study talking...
It was boots and chaps. Gents and hats. Shotguns and spats. It was dog-folks gentle and gay. It was dignified old live oaks, bearded grizzled and gray. It was a lazy old mule wagon, creak rattle and sway. “The Lord’s own symphony,” my Grandma Betts would say, “in the...
Introduction To Hunting And Cooking Wild Turkey Nearly 2.5 million hunters in the United States pursue wild turkey each year, making it the second most hunted game after deer. The wild turkey is often mistakenly thought of as an “upland game bird.” But...
“Many people have the basic ability to draw what they see. All children love to draw. It’s just that most lose interest in it for whatever reason. But I never did. I fell in love with art and the outdoors when I started fishing the stream by my house as a...
Drive north from Jackson on Highway 89, into the heart of the National Elk Refuge. If you’re alert, if you know it’s there and you’re looking for it, you might see the museum. On the other hand, you might not, and that’s intentional. When my...
