Field and Forest: Classic Hunting Stories

by Stephen J. Bodio (Editor)

Overview

For hunters, listening to the accounts of kindred spirits recalling the drama and action that go with good days afield ranks among life's most pleasurable activities. This newly updated volume - with an introduction by editor Stephen J. Bodio — contains some of the best hunting tales ever written, stories that sweep from charging elephants in the African bush to mountain goats in the mountain crags of the Rockies, from the gallant bird dogs of the Southern pinelands to the great Western hunts of Theodore Roosevelt. Stories include: The Wilderness Hunter by Theodore Roosevelt Tige's Lion by Zane Grey Lobo: The King of Currumpaw by Ernest Seton-Thompson My Antelope by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson The Alaskan Grizzly by Harold McCracken Wolf-Hunting in Russia by Henry T. Allen Hunting on the Turin Plain by Roy Chapman Andrews

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762792887
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/17/2013
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Stephen Bodio is a Massachusetts native who has lived in tiny Magdalena, New Mexico, for three decades. He is the author of a half dozen books about the natural world, including A Rage for Falcons (1992) and Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia (2003). Bodio is also an avid falconer. On the Edge of the Wild: Passions and Pleasures of a Naturalist (1997) is a more eclectic collection of essays on hunting and fishing and adventurous travel.

Table of Contents

Introduction Stephen Bodio ix

The Prairie Chicken Capt. Charles Askins 3

De Shootin'est Gent 'man Nash Buckingham 19

The First Gun Richard Jefferies 29

That Twenty-Five-Pound Gobbler Archibald Rutledge 42

Bear Hunting in the Smokies Horace Kephart 53

The American Wilderness; Wilderness Hunters and Wilderness Game Theodore Roosevelt 74

Tige's Lion Zane Grey 92

Lobo: The King of Currumpaw Ernest Thompson Seton 103

My Antelope Grace Gallatin Thompson Seton 122

The Woman Afield Capt. Charles Askins 127

The Mountain Goat at Home William T. Hornaday 131

Red Letter Days in British Columbia Lt. Townsend Whelen 162

The Alaskan Grizzly Harold McCracken 179

The Hunt for the Man-Eaters of Tsavo Lt. Col. J. M. Patterson 195

Some Tiger Stories Sir Richard Dane 239

The Gentle Art of Tiger-Hunting Harry Caldwell 265

Wolf-Hunting in Russia Henry T. Allen 277

Wolf Chase Roy Chapman Andrews 302

Hunting on the Turin Plain Roy Chapman Andrews 306

The Forest and the Steppe Ivan Turgenev 316