Hunting North Amer 1885-1922

Most hunting today is a pale shadow compared to what it used to be like. The game is there, and in droves, but the wilderness is largely now occupied, and more and more hunters compete for less land, and fewer tags for prized animals. Hardly the wild, free experience of our grandfather's and great grandfather's day, when they would take a train to the very end of its track, then hire a guide to take them to the very end of the road, then get in a canoe, and not come back for a month. Noone, no matter how rich, can hunt today the way a common insurance salesman did in 1900. This is a wonderful anthology of the golden age of American big game hunting. You will find things here you've read about in other places, but could never find anywhere else. Some of them are very famous stories, some are inconsequential letters to the local newspaper about a sheep hunt or a good day in a trout stream, but they are all written from a truly lost era. Pre-Hemingway, pre-Ruark, pre-Boddington, pre-Jack O'Connor even - this is the pure essence. Do yourself a favor and snag a couple of copies of this - one for yourself and one for a special young person in your life who is at "that age" when the lights start to come on in their mind. "Sports Afield" and "Sporting Classics" are all fine and good, but there is nothing like going back to the pure source for the story of when hunting was truly an adventure, and not just a day's pastime.