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One Life at a Time, Please (1988)
Chuck Adams
Life at Full Draw (2002)
J. Cecil Alter
Jim Bridger (1979)
Cleveland Amory
In Sierra (June 1992)
Russell Annabel
Speaking of Sheep Hunting: Tales of a Big Game Guide (1938)
John James Audubon (with Bachman)
The Quadrupeds of North America (1848)
My Health is Better in November (1947)
John Barsness
Western Skies (1994)
Rick Bass
In the Loyal Mountains (1995)
The Deer Pasture (1985)
Christopher Batin
“Night of the Brown Bear” (1990s)
“Wolf Hunters” (1990s)
Fred Bear
Fred Bear’s World of Archery (1979)
Peter Beard and Alistair Graham
Eyelids of Morning (1974)
W. D. M. “Karamojo” Bell
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Charles Bergman
Orion’s Legacy (1996)
Stephen Bodio
Good Guns (1986)
On the Edge of the Wild (1998)
Vance Bourjaily
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In Fields Near Home (1984)
Trails of Enchantment (1930)
Tom Brown
The Tracker (1978)
Meshach Browning
Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter (1859)
Nelson Bryant
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Charles L. Cadieux
Goose Hunting (1979)
Frank Calkins
Rocky Mountain Warden (1964)
Angus Cameron
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Peter Hathaway Capstick
Death in the Long Grass (1977)
Philip Caputo
“Shadows in the Bush” in Field & Stream (July 2005)
Jim Carmichel
Just Jim (1969)
Jim Casada
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“The Rack” in Sports Afield (1992)
George Catlin (early 1800s)
John Dean Caton
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Samuel de Champlain (circa 1600)
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Richard Connell
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Carleton S. Coon
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Jim Corbett
Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1946)
Walter Cronkite
Jack Curtis
Dawn Waters (1998)
Comte Alfred D’Orsay (1850)
Chris Dorsey
Wildfowler’s Season (1995)
Ben East
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William Elliott
Carolina Sports by Land and Water (1846)
Billy Ellis
Hunter to the Dawn (1988)
George Bird Evans
An Affair with Grouse (1982)
William Faulkner
“The Bear” (1931)
Big Woods (1955)
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Charles Fergus
A Rough-Shooting Dog (1991)
The Upland Equation (1995)
Jim Fergus
A Hunter’s Road (1992)
Peter J. Fiduccia
Whitetail Strategies (1995)
Corey Ford
The Road to Tinkhamtown (1970)
Richard Ford
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Frank Forester (1807-1858)
Reflections, Man and Boy (1997)
William Harnden Foster
New England Grouse Shooting (1947)
Charles Frazier
Cold Mountain (1997)
Pete Fromm
Indian Creek Chronicles (1993)
Mahatma Gandhi
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Erle Stanley Gardner
Hunting Is More Fun than Killing (1964)
Elgin Gates
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Mike Gould
The Labrador Shooting Dog (1998)
Gray’s Sporting Journal (October 1990)
George Bird Grinnell (1879)
Steve Grooms
Pheasant Hunter’s Harvest (1990)
H. Rider Haggard
Autobiography (1925)
Jim Hamm
Bows & Arrows of the Native Americans (1989)
Spring Gobbler Fever (1996)
Robert Hardy
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Jim Harrison
“A Spring Sermon … Or Siberia” in Sports Afield (1994)
Wolf: A False Memoir (1989)
Max Hastings
The Field (April 1997)
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Green Hills of Africa (1935)
David Henderson
Spook and Other Stories: Tales of a Bird Dog (1995)
Eugen Herrigel
Zen in the Art of Archery translated by Richard F. C. Hull (1953)
Gene Hill
A Hunter’s Fireside Book (1972)
Log Fires (1967)
Mostly Tailfeathers (1975)
Ray P. Holland
Shotgunning in the Lowlands (1945)
Mike Huckabee
NRA Conference (September 2007)
Alan Huffman
Ten Point: Deer Camp in the Mississippi Delta (1977)
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Hunter (1952)
M. R. James
My Place (1992)
Allen Jones
A Quiet Place of Violence (1997)
Robert F. Jones
Dancers in the Sunset Sky (1996)
It Wouldn’t Be the Same (1996)
Keewatin Eskimo saying (undated)
Elmer Keith
Africa’s Big Fire (1960)
Big Game Hunting (1948)
Tom Kelly
Better on a Rising Tide (1995)
Forty Crook Branch (late 1990s)
Tenth Legion (1973)
Horace Kephart
Camping and Woodcraft (1917)
Our Southern Highlanders (1917)
Ted Kerasote
Bloodties (1993)
Heart of Home (1993)
James Kilgo
Deep Enough for Ivorybills (1988)
The Jungle Books (1894)
Lawrence R. Koller
Shots at Whitetails (1948)
Sydney Lea
Hunting the Whole Way Home (1994)
Aldo Leopold
A Sand County Almanac (1949)
Red Legs Kicking (1946)
Meriwether Lewis (1805)
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
The Journals of Lewis and Clark (1814)
Jack London
“To Build a Fire” (circa 1900) in The Unabridged Jack London (1981)
Dr. W. Brandon Macomber
“A Double Lion Mauling,” in African Hunter by James Mellon (1975)
Gordon MacQuarrie
Stories of the Old Duck Hunters & Other Drivel (1967)
John Madson
Going Out More (1974)
“Why Men Hunt” in A Hunter’s Heart by David Petersen (1996)
“Deer Hunting” (1994)
John S. Martin
Outdoors Limited (1947)
A. J. McClane
Great Fishing and Hunting Lodges of North America (1984)
H. McCracken and H. van Cleve
Trapping: The Craft and Science of Catching Fur-Bearing Animals (1947)
Terry McDonell
“Who We Are” in The Best of Sports Afield by Jay Cassell (1996)
Thomas McGuane
“The Heart of the Game” (1990)
Thomas McIntyre
Dreaming the Lion (1993)
The Way of the Hunter (1988)
“What the Hunter Knows” in Sports Afield (1995)
James Mellon
African Hunter (1975)
“Breakfast at Midnight” in Outdoor Life (1969)
James A. Michener
Chesapeake (1978)
John Miller
Deer Camp (1992)
The Hunt (1979)
Steven Mulak
Wax and Wane (1987)
John Myers Myers
The Wild Yazoo (1947)
Richard K. Nelson
Finding Common Ground (1996)
T. Edward Nickens
“The Rabbit Runners” in Field & Stream (October 2004)
Geoffrey Norman
The Orvis Book of Upland Bird Shooting (1985)
Ted Nugent (1997)
Kill It & Grill It (2002)
In Sports Afield (1997)
Annie Oakley
“Annie Oakley Ruled the Traps” in Sports Afield (August 1915)
Dan O’Brien
Equinox: Life, Love, and Birds of Prey (1997)
Harrison O’Connor
“Hunting on the Farm” in Gray’s Sporting Journal (1984)
Jack O’Connor
In Outdoor Life (1960)
The Singing Wilderness (1956)
Clyde Ormond
The Complete Book of Hunting (1962)
José Ortega y Gasset
Meditations on Hunting (1942)
Outdoor Life (1899)
John Ozoga
Whitetail Country (1992)
Alfred Pease
Book of the Lion (1987)
B. R. “Buck” Peterson
The Compleat Waterfo(u)wler (1996)
James R. Pierce
Guns and Hunting (1993)
Dr. Saxton Pope
Hunting with the Bow and Arrow (1923)
Jim Posewitz
Beyond Fair Chase (1994)
Datus Proper
Intelligence (1991)
Struggle and Chance: Why We Do It (1991)
Edgar M. Queeny
Prairie Wings (1946)
Chinese Hunter (circa 1938–39)
Austin L. Rand
American Water and Game Birds (1956)
John Randolph
“Hawk Who Walks Hunting” in Seasons of the Hunter by Elman and Seybold (1985)
George Reiger
Heron Hill Chronicle (1994)
The Wildfowler’s Quest (1989)
The Wings of Dawn (1980)
Jerome B. Robinson
In the Turkey Woods (1998)
Theodore Roosevelt
The Deer Family (1902)
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Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (1885)
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (1905)
The Wilderness Hunter (1891)
Robert Ruark
Horn of the Hunter (1954)
The Old Man and the Boy (1953)
In True (September 1963)
Use Enough Gun (1952)
Jonathan Ruffer
The Big Shots—Edwardian Shooting Parties (1977)
“My First Leopard Mauling” in African Hunter by James Mellon (1975)
Archibald Rutledge
Days Off in Dixie (1924)
“Plantation Game Trails” in The Deer Book by Lamar Underwood (1980)
In Shotgunning in the Lowlands by Ray P. Holland (1945)
Why I Taught My Boys to Hunt (early 1940s)
Ernest Thompson Seton
Lives of the Hunted (1901)
Lives of Game Animals (1929)
Sioux buffalo chant (undated)
Steve Smith
Hunting Ducks and Geese (1984)
“Song of the Elk,” according to the Sioux Elk Society in Dog Soldiers, Bear Men and Buffalo Women by Thomas E. Mails
John Philip Sousa (circa 1900)
Burton Spiller
More Grouse Feathers (1938)
Curtis Stadtfeld
Whitetail Deer (1975)
Normal Strung
Hunting with Lady Luck (early 1990s)
“The Measure of a Hunter” in Field & Stream (1985)
The Purification Ceremony (1997)
Daisetsu T. Suzuki
Foreword to Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel (1953)
James Swan
In Defense of Hunting (1995)
William G. Tapply
Sportsman’s Legacy (1993)
Bill Tarrant
In Field & Stream (1983)
E. Donnall Thomas, Jr.
“Autumn Quarter” in Big Sky Journal (Fall 2000)
Two Bulls (1997)
Henry David Thoreau
Walden (1854)
“Walking” (1862)
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina (1877)
War and Peace (1869)
Philip Tome (early 1800s)
Ivan Turgenev
A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852)
Lamar Underwood
On Dangerous Grounds (1989)
For a Handful of Feathers (1995)
Joel Vance
Bobs, Brush, and Brittanies: A Long Love Affair with Quail Hunting (1997)
T. S. van Dyke (1882)
George N. Wallace
High Country News (1983)
Lord Warwick in Jonathan Ruffer’s The Big Shots—Edwardian Shooting Parties (1985)
Col. Townsend Whelen
Mr. Rifleman (with Bradford Angier) (1965)
Walt Whitman
“Song of Myself” (1860)
Casper W. Whitney
“The Cougar” in Hunting in Many Lands edited by Roosevelt and Grinnell (1895)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939)
Roger D. Williams
“Wolf-Coursing” in Hunting in Many Lands edited by Roosevelt and Grinnell (1895)
Craig Woods
“The Endless Cover” in Seasons of the Hunter by Elman and Seybold (1985)
Hunting Trophy Deer (1997)
Albert Hazen Wright
Early Records of the Wild Turkey (1914)
Lee Wulff
Trout on a Fly (1986)
Dudley Young
Origin of the Sacred (1991)
Ed Zern
Hunting and Fishing from “A” to Zern (1985)
To Hell with Hunting (1946)