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“Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches” by Theodore Roosevelt is an enthralling collection of tales and essays that vividly captures the essence of the American West during a time of exploration and adventure. This book is more than just a series of hunting stories; it's a profound reflection on nature, wildlife, and the human spirit's connection to the wild. Roosevelt, a renowned figure in early conservation and a former President of the United...
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A great collection of bear attack true stories for hikers, hunters, and all who venture into the outdoors.
Bears are one of nature's apex predators, gentle and fuzzy to watch from a distance, fierce and unpredictable when aroused-and then it's too late for humans to escape a dangerous, fearsome, or fatal encounter. In this collection, we gather the most thrilling and frightening bear-attack stories of the past few decades. Grizzlies, brown bears,...
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What is the true real life story behind the famous character "Natty Bumppo" in James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of famous novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales?
Why is Nathaniel (Nat) Foster Jr. (1766-1840), famous pioneer hunter and trapper in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York widely credited with being the model for Natty Bumppo?
Famous Adirondacks resident and historian A. L. Byron-Curtiss (1871-1959) has surprising answers to...
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The most comprehensive guide to reading the signs and tracks of dozens of animals! "To derive the greatest pleasure from the pursuit of game," Brunner writes in the foreword to this classic hunting guide, "it is necessary to be versed in the science of interpreting the meaning of tracks and trails." With these words, the author begins his comprehensive survey of how to track and read animal signs. To the author-and hunter-this is not simply a matter...
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Part of the challenges and rewards of being a field biologist is being able recreate a predation event. But that experience is often difficult and frustrating, as time, weather, and other factors can be make clues sparse. Even the most careful of investigators can spend hours of time second-guessing themselves while exhausting every possibility from inconclusive evidence. The Predation ID Manual is designed to help assuage some of those difficulties...
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I determined early in my experience that to run away from an angry bear was useless, is but one sound observation Pickett imparts from his years of hunting the grizzly in Wyoming and Montana.
After serving in the Mexican and Civil War, fighting Comanches on the border, in 1876 a voice from the wilds was heard beckoning William Pickett to follow to the solitudes and grandeur of the plains and mountains of the Great West, where practically everything...
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In Scouting's Guide to Tracking, current Scouts, Scout alumni, and readers interested in the outdoors are provided with time-tested advice on how to track big and small animals over different types of terrain. Some practical tips include:
• How to determine the age of tracks in any circumstance
• How to recognize the distinctive marks of dozens of different species
• How to track in desert, forest, snow, and grassy areas
• How to identify...
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Born in Pennsylvania in 1810, Edwards' family moved to Ohio in 1812. Upon reaching adulthood, Edwards took up the life of a hunter in order to support his family of 16 children. By means of hunting and tracking with dogs Samuel E. Edwards (1810-1895) was able to make a comfortable life hunting bear, deer, racoon, wolf, wild cats, as well as by fishing the rivers. Life was full of danger from the wild animals as well as Indians and other hunters which...
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