An Artist In Big Game Country: Hunting For Meat

An Artist In Big Game Country: Hunting For Meat

This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the August 1910 issue of Outing magazine. Rarely is the sportsman so situated that he absolutely depends upon game for food, though as one penetrates farther into the North, the sight of hungry Indians is...
Honoring The 150th Birthday Of Carl Rungius

Honoring The 150th Birthday Of Carl Rungius

Carl Moritz Clemens Rungius is widely regarded as the greatest painter of North American big game animals. He witnessed firsthand the decline of large mammals on the continent when there was an unregulated open season that put some species on the brink of extinction....
Legends Of The Hunt: Theodore Roosevelt

Legends Of The Hunt: Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt’s resolve, his utterly fearless nature and unmatched determination were never more apparent than on this mountain lion hunt in Colorado. In January 1901, the year Theodore Roosevelt became president, he embarked on a five-week hunt for cougar with...
Zane Grey & the Model 1895 Winchester

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...
An Artist In Big Game Country: “No Good.”

An Artist In Big Game Country: “No Good.”

This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the August 1910 issue of Outing magazine. “Going a hunting” has a ring to it of romance and adventure. As your enthusiast holds forth, you sense the mystery of the forest and the mountains and the...