A Slithery Bedmate

A Slithery Bedmate

Texas’ Wild Horse Desert is home to many things that stick, prick, bite and a few that “slither,” but also a land of “change.” It was here aboriginal tribes were forever changed with the arrival of the shipwrecked Spanish explorer, Cabeza de Vaca and a small handful...
TR In The Land Of Giants

TR In The Land Of Giants

By September 1909,Theodore Roosevelt’s year-long safari had moved on to the Meru region on the northeastern slopes of Mount Kenya where, with the help of Edward Butler Horne, the first district commissioner, they would hunt for more elephant. TR had already shot his...
Elk Camp

Elk Camp

The challenge is great, the reward even greater for the bowhunter who outwits a big bull.   It begins around the end of August in the Rockies when the dawns turn chilly, the aspen leaves turn golden, the small ponds freeze over at night, and the bull elk get a little...
Fallow

Fallow

“What two species of deer do you think have been introduced to more continents than any other?” Asked Scandinavian Prohunter’s Stefan Bengtsson. “Hmmmm…it would have to be either red deer or fallow deer based on my personal experience. I’ve hunted introduced red stag...
Taking the Sacred Beast

Taking the Sacred Beast

He caught a glimpse of something white among the herd, its body illuminated by the setting sun–he recognized the animal as an extremely rare white bison. The fall was changing into winter and the buffalo hunters were getting ready for the huge herds to gather on the...
Man-Killing Cougar

Man-Killing Cougar

It was a cold, dull and dreary day, the 17th of December 1924, with the thermometer hovering around zero in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains of Okanogan County, Washington, when a man-eating cougar killed and devoured a 13-year-old boy. Reports from all over the...
The Magic Quarter

The Magic Quarter

“Son, I’ve got something for ya,” said the grizzled hunter, poking our late November campfire and sending ember offerings and prayers to the Man Upstairs. I had known my friend ever since I was a tyke, and I always called him Uncle John, even though he was not among...