Jim Casada the editor and compiler of this work, was a university history professor before taking early retirement to write full-time on hunting, fishing, and other outdoor-related topics. He serves as series editor of the Firearms Classics Library from Palladium Press and of the Outdoor Tennessee Series from the University of Tennessee Press. He is a senior editor of Sporting Classics magazine and a contributing editor for The Hunting Magazine, Cabela’s Outfitter Journal, and Sporting Clays. He serves as editor at large for Turkey and Turkey Hunting and has contributed hunting and gun-related pieces to dozens of publications, including Outdoor Life, American Hunter, North American Hunter, Sports Afield, Shooter’s Bible, Deer & Deer Hunting, and Gun Hunter Magazine. He has written, edited, or contributed to more than 30 books, including The Best of Horatio Bigelow (1994), The Lost Classics of Robert Rourke (1996), Africa’s Greatest Hunter (1998), Innovative Turkey Hunting (2000), Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails (2001); on Theodore Roosevelt as a hunter and naturalist, and a quartet of works bringing together the finest hunting writings of Archibald Rutledge. With his wife, Ann, he has coauthored a number of game cookbooks. Casada is a past president of both the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association and the Outdoor Writers Association of America.