A Master of Stellar Heights
On a summer afternoon long ago in Bozeman, Montana, a grouping of paintings stopped me in my tracks. These were not major works by painter Ralph Oberg, but depictions of high elevation lakes in Glacier National Park of Montana. Their water, set in bowls carved out by...
Trout Magic in Words: The Anatomy of a Fly Fisherman
More years ago than it is completely comfortable for me to ponder, I wrote a series of profiles on celebrated angling writers for a little publication, Fly-Fishing News. The bimonthly offering, featuring noted sporting scribes such as John Gierach, Lefty Kreh and Paul...
Highly Desirable Turkey Books From The Library of an Icon
Soon after the National Wild Turkey Federation was founded in 1973, the organization began publishing its house magazine, Turkey Call. The publication’s first editor, Gene Smith, was a veteran in the field who had cut his editing teeth working for Florida’s state...
Pat McManus: Into the Twilight, Endlessly Making People Laugh
The last shall be first, we’re told, and for many years, when Outdoor Life arrived in the mail, readers would skip straight past the latest on guns and gear to get to the back page. “I heard that almost daily,” says Todd W. Smith, who served as editor of the magazine...
Copley Spotlight: Shorebirds from the Estate of Henry Bishop
Henry Bishop was a good friend of legendary decoy collector Dr. Peter J. Muller Jr., and there is substantial overlap between their collections. Both from Atlanta, the Muller and Bishop Collections are known for their near-mint birds by top makers, including Elmer...
Copley Winter Sale 2026
Copley Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary With An All-Star Lineup at the Winter Sale 2026 As Copley Fine Art Auctions celebrates its 20th year in business in 2026, the firm will host its annual Winter Sale on February 20 and 21. Consisting of approximately 640 lots, this...
Worth Mathewson Books for Sale
Click Here to View All Geoffrey Boothroyd, Boothroyd on British Shotguns. Amity, OR: Sand Lake Press, 1993. [viii], 222,[32—reprint of 1914 Webley & Scott catalog], [xv—index] pages. Hardbound in dust jacket. Illustrated, index. Copy #2 of a printing of 1500...
The Men Behind the Scenes
Theodore Roosevelt’s historic safari through British East Africa was more than a year in the planning and took nearly a year to complete. It became the most significant expedition ever taken on the Dark Continent. TR’s safari collected more specimens and identified...
Remembering Mr. Buck
Perhaps the greatest Nash Buckingham story was the one he lived.