Hunting 31

Mountain men were dare-devils, who feared neither God nor man, nor grizzlies; nevertheless these tragic heroes did good work in their day and generation. They were the scouts who pushed ahead into t……続きを見る

A comprehensive guide to transforming your dog into a valuable wing-shooting companion in the field and at home. Created by Mike Stewart of Wildrose Kennels, the Wildrose Way is a unique, low-force,……続きを見る

"Interesting, this author is an old experienced trapper, and speaks from knowledge." -Herald of Health, 1869 "A very useful and practical manual." -Country Gentleman, 1868 "Everybody who wants to hu……続きを見る

"The author, an old Ceylon Shikari, gives some very interesting, realistic, and thrilling experiences of his adventures after elephants and other wild animals in the jungle, water-hole shooting and ……続きを見る

"I and my Hottentots have killed eight hundred elephants." -Charles Andersson "Trodden on by elephants, ripped up by the horn of a rhinoceros, suffering hunger and thirst, our author has survived al……続きを見る

"The stories of Selous' doings I have often listened to far into the night as described round my camp fire by his excited and admiring followers. Selous is not only known as a hunter, held in awe by……続きを見る

"Born too late for the height of the fur trade, the author still made a living and a life on his own terms." -Reader Review "This man of the woods is amazing." -Reader Review "An almost unbelievable……続きを見る

South Dakota's early fur traders, those that engaged in the traffic directly with the Indians, were men of no ordinary mold. In many instances they were heroes, at all times resolute, self-reliant, ……続きを見る

"JIM BRIDGER stands forth as the most conspicuous figure in the brief but glorious reign of the trapper and trail maker in the far West--the greatest furhunter and the greatest pathfinder of them al……続きを見る

"Smith may have been America's greatest tiger hunter." -Ohmy News, April 18, 2007 "When I first learned the truth about the Chinese tigers, that they were all man-eaters and lived in caves, nothing ……続きを見る

"The next moment a tiger sprang clean off the ground, and seized hold of the lower bar of it with both teeth and claws. There was a crash, the elephant fell on to its side ..." Col. Fitzwilliam Thom……続きを見る

"The most adventurous figure in the history of the 'Oregon country' is Colonel Joe Meek, Virginian, 'squaw man' and first marshal of Oregon. He was a frontiersman of the highest type." The Pacific M……続きを見る

"In one season man-eating lions had killed and carried off thirty five natives from a Wonki settlement and when our expedition arrived the villagers had built huts in the trees and were literally ro……続きを見る

"Full of information on the mountain men, the fur trade, and the Indians." -Americana Catalogue, 1843 "Smith left Independence in 1839 in good company... mountain men Andrew Sublette, Louis Vasquez,……続きを見る

Samuel Baker lived as a reputed Victorian Nimrod and was a milestone in the history of modern hunting through his works and deeds. The most interesting article in the December 1891 edition of the En……続きを見る

Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land. Fritz Dörries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world. Travelling alone or with his brothe……続きを見る

"A great explorer and scout of the West, the first American to cross the Sierra Nevada, a great pioneer." -California Senate Resolution (1953) "His escape from the dangers of the wilderness seem lik……続きを見る

Firearms: An Illustrated History tells the story of the gun using photos of hundreds of weapons. It traces every milestone from the first muskets to modern automatic weapons. Pistols, revolvers, rif……続きを見る

"Seizer of Eagles...is a true story: I have written it just as Old Sun told it to me." -James Willard Schultz (as quoted in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 6, 1922) "Braver, self-control and loyalty.……続きを見る

The latest collection from one the country's most highly regarded outdoor writers takes readers bowhunting around the United States and the world. Don Thomas' rich prose brings alive not just the ad……続きを見る

For the past decade, Don Thomas's "Closing Time" columns in Ducks Unlimited magazine have received wide critical praise. Divided into five sections-Waterfowl, In the Field: Ducks, In the Field: Gees……続きを見る

"A story of sport and adventure...by C.E. Gouldsbury...contains the sporting reminiscences of Digby Davies...whose reputation as a hunter of big game was so great...appointed...Tiger Slayer to the P……続きを見る

"One of the truest and best sportsmen that ever shouldered a gun, strung a snare or set a trap." -The Pennsylvania Sportsman "One of the state's most famous trappers...an unsurpassed picture of an o……続きを見る

"This latest work of Captain Chittenden's...is a history of the early trading posts and pioneer fur companies...the result of years of research among original manuscripts, journals, documents, scatt……続きを見る

"Daniel J. Singer...tells of the pursuit of cougar, jaguar, moose, bear...from British Guiana to Alaska...few have done so much actual hiking in the wilds." -Atlanta Constitution, Jan. 17, 1915 "Dan……続きを見る

"Lord Wolverton, who hunted Somalia in the 1890s (amusing himself...by capturing and putting a large bandit tribe to the lash as well as burning its village) was credited...as having taken on lion m……続きを見る

"Alexander Ross...marched for months, overcoming all difficulties...terrifying the parties of hostile Indians who crossed his path...cutting his way through miles of snow...traversing pathless woods……続きを見る

"Even that mighty hunter, Gordon Cumming himself, must own himself completely surpassed by this young German, Gerstaecker." -"The" Illustrated London News, 1854 "One of the first men to come hunting……続きを見る

"The best known of all Roosevelt's outdoor books." -The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told (2010) "The Wilderness Hunter...included a story about a hunter in Idaho who'd been attacked by a hairy monster……続きを見る

"Baldwin's work is one of the most extraordinary records we have met with of wild adventure, cool daring, and narrow escapes from death." -Daily News (London), December 30, 1862 "A fine horseman and……続きを見る