The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told by Cassell, Jay -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Introduction PART I - Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt: America’s Greatest Hunter/Conservationist A Man-Killing Bear Old Ephraim The Game of the High Peaks: The White Goat The Ranchman’s Rifle on Crag and Prairie

Bringing Home the Game A Prong-Horn Buck Visits Camp The Buck Overtaken

The Wapiti, or Round-Horned Elk Elephant Hunting on Mount Kenia

PART II - The Olden Days

Phineas Finn

The Willingford Bull

The Duke’s Children—Killancodlem

Chapter XL

Red Letter Days in British Columbia The Hunt for the Man-Eaters of Tsavo

The Attack on the Goods-Wagon The Reign of Terror The District Officer’s Narrow Escape The Death of the First Man-Eater The Death of the Second Man-Eater

Tige’s Lion De Shootinest Gent’man Thinking Like a Mountain

PART III - Big Game

Luck of the Draw A Day Out Wolf Hunters

Why Hunt Wolves? The Call of the Wild

Night of the Brown Bear Two Bulls In the Heat of the Rut

Lucky Camp

PART IV - Small Game

Going After the Varying Hare in Vermont’s Snow Woods Squirrel Hunting: The Making of Young Hunters

Shotgun Versus .22 Rifle for Squirrels Different Tactics for Hunting Squirrels Some Thoughts on Safety

Daybreak New Wilderness The Rabbit Runners

PART V - Upland Birds

The Sundown Covey Bobwhites in the Shinnery Showing the Way Quail in the Thorned Land In Fields Near Home Intelligence

Singular Hunting Where They Aren’t Cover

Autumn Quarter

September October November

First Grouse Spiller Country Targeting the Thunder-Maker No Woodcock—but Nothing to Grouse About, Either Convert Green Eyes What’s Worth Saving

PART VI - Waterfowl

The Old Brown Mackinaw “Pothole Guys, Friz Out” The Wings of Dawn Hunting from an Unusual Blind

PART VII - Turkey Hunting

That Twenty-Five-Pound Gobbler The Central Character The Turkey Cure A Successful Fall Hunt Turkey Hunters

Portrait of a Turkey Hunter

PART VIII - Deer Hunting

Trail’s End Three Men and a Buck The First Snow of Autumn Hunting with Lady Luck A Flintlock in the Rain Mobley Pond As Near to Perfect The Third Deer The Rack On Stand

PART IX - Africa and Asia

Karamojo

I.—Into the Unknown II.—Ivory and the Raiders III.—The Coming of Pyjalé

The Thak Man-Eater

II. III. IV. V. VI.

Second-Best Buffalo Among the San

The San Bushman Archery Equipment Hunting Techniques Tracking

Vengeance The Classic Fall-on-Your-Arse Double Everything Your Heart Desires Shadows in the Bush (Part I)

Fair Chase Means ‘Walk’ The Story in the Dirt Any Old Bull Will Do The Vision Thing The Worst Bug in the World

Shadows in the Bush (Part II)

Trigger Time All Heart Buffalo No. 2

The Wire

PART X - Reflections on Our Sport

To Hunt: The Question of Killing The Wealth of Age A Hunting Memory River Notes: Three Days of the Savage Life

Friday, November 21 Saturday, November 22 Sunday, November 23

Forty Crook Branch Acolytes A Sudden Silence

Sometimes it is Not What Happens so Much as What Happens Afterwards

Magic Struggle and Chance: Why We Do It Choices The Measure of a Hunter Integrity Mercy on Beeson’s Partridge Three Days to Thanksgiving Why Hunter’s Moon Log Fires A Christmas Wish Just a Dog

Fort Arrives We Meet Rebel Fort Settles In Fort Reminisces Fort’s Visit Sails By Just a Dog The Day was November 23, 1940.

The Road to Tinkhamtown The Heart of the Game Lost Finding Your Way in the Woods

Acknowledgments

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