The Story of the Sporting Gun
Firearms, of a sort, are supposed to have been used before gunpowder was invented; but the history of sporting guns is not concerned with the prototypes of these early weapons, and they need not be specified. Nor do the early cannon devised for military purposes call...
Leopards are Different
Of all the African big game animals, Chui the leopard is the most beautiful and exotic – even in death.
The Parson Lied
First published in the April 1939 issue of Hunting & Fishing magazine, and then in Tales of Quails ’n Such in 1951.
The Phantom Trout of Sullivan County
The First of April has for untold ages been the Day of Fools! Why? No one in particular seems to know. There are patron saints for everyone from the prelate thief, but who is the Saint of All-Fools?” Thus spoke Tom Marks, one of a merry trio of trout fishers who had...
Fish Are Such Liars
In this classic from the pages of The Saturday Evening Post, you’ll be surprised to learn that fishermen aren’t the only ones who stretch the truth.
The Mysterious Red Ghost
A camel carrying a ghastly burden would haunt the locals for years on end.
Notes on Dangerous Game
The Third Tanganyika Letter This article originally appeared in the July 1934 issue of Esquire magazine. In the ethics of shooting dangerous game is the premise that the trouble you shoot yourself into you must be prepared to shoot yourself out of. Since a man making...
Hunting Rhinoceros On the Upper Nile
In the last despairing hope of obtaining fresh supplies from Kampala by the road from Uganda to the Upper Nile, I remained at Wadelai, Emin Pasha’s old station, for upward of a month. Lieutenant Cape, R. A., was in command of the station, and together we went into the...