A Great and Tainted Genius

A Great and Tainted Genius

There’s the greatest writer of the last century and wanderings across the continents with gun and rod, and it begins in 1951 just outside Havana Way up in the Sawtooths, the day comes creeping on the wind. The aspens rattle and the stars fade as the first light hits...
14 Key Tips for Game Cookery

14 Key Tips for Game Cookery

If you are planning to include wild game recipes in your Thanksgiving menu this year, The Derrydale Game Cookbook offers a few tips to bring out the best flavors in your game meat. 1. An old guard of a game bird has no other place in cookery but to be used either for...
Down the Writer’s Rabbit Hole

Down the Writer’s Rabbit Hole

What is writing, if not the sharing and resharing of life itself? It’s done.   Finished.   Written and designed; printed, bound and finally shipping out to a host of readers, both old and new…this latest book that’s been growing from my head and heart and...
Reading Season

Reading Season

This has been a big season for books. You’ve undoubtedly caught wind by now of the Sporting Classics book on famed outdoor illustrator (and Hemingway pal) Lynn Bogue Hunt, Lynn Bogue Hunt: Artist, Angler, Hunter. It just so happens that I scribbled the text for it,...
King of Beasts – A Study of the African Lion

King of Beasts – A Study of the African Lion

My raison d’être often finds me capturing the wild and raw sides of nature, where just surviving the night is a landmark event. The tallest animal to walk the planet today is an old bull giraffe. Often standing 19 feet tall and weighing more than 3,000 pounds, these...