Chairman of the Lower Forty

Chairman of the Lower Forty

From this moment forward, their association will finally go down as one of the greatest in the annals of outdoor writing. Our paths converged in a field called the Lower Forty. Corey Ford owned it, I own it — in this very real, very rural, picture-postcard New England...
People Like Us Never Grow Up

People Like Us Never Grow Up

I do not mean to sound bitter about this, for perhaps it is not the fault of the wet-eared young… This piece is being written in a bug-ridden swamp on the banks of the sluggish yellow Tana River, in northeastern Kenya, where the big elephants bugle and the...
Chris Dorsey on Fox News

Chris Dorsey on Fox News

Sporting Classics TV host Chris Dorsey joins Fox News to talk hunting and conservation. Chris Dorsey joined Fox News Tonight host Joey Jones to discuss the many differences between green environmental groups and conservation organizations…and who does more for...
Does It Still Happen?

Does It Still Happen?

Words and values were their greatest legacy — the outdoors their greatest gift. Tell me. Do kids somewhere still grow up with Cochise, Robin Hood and William Tell, rather than the Terminator and Robo-Cop? Do they still forge blood-brother pacts with the Ogalala Sioux?...
Francis Lee Jaques Shape of Things

Francis Lee Jaques Shape of Things

It has been suggested that Lee Jaques was the first American bird artist to put his subjects into the landscape, not merely against it. Francis Lee Jaques grew up on the Kansas prairie, fascinated by the myriad delights of nature. When he wasn’t helping on the...
The Odyssey of An Artist

The Odyssey of An Artist

“From the very beginning, being an artist was my first choice.” You can tour the most discriminating galleries, visit the most thoughtfully-curated exhibitions. As you walk these clean, well-lighted places, you stop, as much from duty as interest, to study...
Pilot

Pilot

Aviator, treasure hunter, sportsman, and fearless rescuer, Hall Watters was as unmatched as he was widely unrecognized.