An Artist In Big Game Country: Almost Skunked!

An Artist In Big Game Country: Almost Skunked!

Often, it is my custom to make careful pencil sketches of the characteristic rocks and growth of a locality, and from time to time an adventure is the result of the quiet and waiting. On a remote lake in Maine, two deer were feeding at the water’s edge, and just...
Ezra Bogg’s Moose Hunt

Ezra Bogg’s Moose Hunt

“Yep” sighed old Ez, as he bunched a forkful of chewing and elevated it into the gap in his features, “I’ve seen ’em.  An’ I can say that jedgin’ by what I see of  ’em they’re tough customers. I hain’t a-hankerin’ to renew my acquaintance with ’em—they’re a trifle too...
Never Give Up: The Half Day Hunt

Never Give Up: The Half Day Hunt

It’s midnight when we pull into elk camp, dark and cold with a clear sky. There’s no moon. The only light comes from the huge canopy of stars hanging low over the mountains, reflecting off the frost-covered ground. The stars are so low I feel like reaching...
Idaho Odyssey

Idaho Odyssey

One of the great wonders of young boys is never realizing how a chain of everyday events can so forcefully change and redirect your own life in years ahead, even into adulthood. For me, raised up in a 1940s small town in the foothills of northern California’s lovely...
Scotland’s Ultimate Sporting Quest

Scotland’s Ultimate Sporting Quest

The 1925 adventure novel John Macnab is the story of three high profile Scottish friends who are suffering from severe cases of the doldrums and are instructed by their physician to try something out of the ordinary, perhaps with an element of danger to snap them out...
Pronghorn: High Plains Drifter

Pronghorn: High Plains Drifter

A six-legged demon was ripping pieces out of my face. I didn’t dream of flinching. Not now, not after all I had been through the past three months.

What Happens in Colorado Won’t Stay There

What Happens in Colorado Won’t Stay There

American sportsmen have justifiably celebrated the success of the so-called North American model of hunter-funded conservation, but the approach has a tragic flaw that now threatens to undo a generation of work. Hunter-conservationists have been so focused on saving,...
A Tribute to Theodore Roosevelt

A Tribute to Theodore Roosevelt

The great-grandson of our 26th President shares his unique insight into Theodore Roosevelt’s legendary determination and diligence and his lifelong passion for hunting and the outdoors.

America’s Drift from Tradition

America’s Drift from Tradition

If our children work hard, love, protect and abide, maybe they can survive. . . and maybe one day before it’s all too late they can bring America back again.