Best of Outdoor Life : The Greatest Hunting, Fishing and Survival Stories from America's Favorite Sportsman's Magazine

by Compiled by William E. Rae and the Editors of Outdoor Life Magazine

• ISBN13: 9781585743117
• ISBN10: 1585743119
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: The Lyons Press

Summary

This anthology selects the cream of the crop from "Outdoor Life", including timeless accounts from such authors as Zane Grey, Rex Beach, Townsend Whelan, and more, fleshed out with introductions and biographical sketches of the authors. Photos.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Introduction	xv
A Moose Hunt in Alaska	1	(4)
Dall DeWeese
My First Pneumatic	5	(4)
C. C. Hopkins
Duckville	9	(6)
Major Daniels
The Roosevelt Lion Hunt (PART 1)	15	(4)
John B. Goff
The Roosevelt Lion Hunt (Conclusion)	19	(4)
John B. Goff
Trout-Casting in Washington	23	(4)
W. I. Agnew
The Quest of the Ptarmigan	27	(5)
Rex E. Beach
Red Letter Days in British Columbia	32	(8)
Lieutenat Townsend Whelen
Camping With a Motor Car	40	(4)
A. Whiteman
Outdoor Life Ads, 1898-1909	44	(4)
A Record Grizzly Fight	48	(3)
James Bryce
The Pursuit of the Elusive Forty	51	(3)
James Oliver Curwood
Mushing in the Frozen North	54	(5)
Geo. F. Waugh
Colorado Trails	59	(5)
Zane Grey
Colorado Trails	64	(5)
Zane Grey
Western Myths	69	(5)
Chauncey Thomas
Outdoor Life Ads, 1910-1920	74	(4)
Northern Lives, August 1921	78	(4)
The Case of the Elmwood Buck	82	(4)
Archibald Rutledge
The Giant of the South Seas	86	(9)
Zane Grey
He Makes the Finest Rifle Barrels in the World	95	(4)
Edwin Teale
Are Posted Waters Free?	99	(5)
Ben East
Babe's in the Woods	104	(5)
Bob Edge
The Man With the Meat Dog	109	(4)
Wm. Cary Duncan
Outdoor Life Ads, 1921-1940	113	(4)
Pa'tridge Fever - Cause and Cure	117	(5)
Gordon MacQuarrie
Wild West Gunmen Were Not So Hot	122	(6)
Charles Askins, Jr.
An Old Man Told Me	128	(5)
Geo. W. Heinold
The Kentucky Rifle	133	(6)
Fred R. Zepp
Outdoor Life Covers and Paintings	139	(2)
Horseshoe Luck	141	(5)
E. C. Haase
Frozen Terror	146	(9)
Ben East
I'm No Ted William	155	(6)
Charles Elliott
A Double for the Captain	161	(4)
Allen Parsons
Outdoor Life Ads, 1941-1951	165	(4)
The Year the Pickerel Came	169	(6)
Don Holm
A Striper for the Consul	175	(10)
Harry R. Caldwell
Tale of the Minister's Dog	185	(6)
Arthur Grahame
The Three Musketeers	191	(6)
F. H. ``Bert'' Riggall
Santiago and the Lady	197	(5)
Jack O'Connor
Mucha Trucha	202	(6)
Red Smith
Fisherman	208	(6)
George Tichenor
Never Say Uncle	214	(6)
Fred Meyer Schroder
Robert Easton
Never Trust a Moose	220	(6)
Eric Collier
Lions Don't Come Easy	226	(7)
Jack O'Connor
Worth Two Shells	233	(5)
K. C. Randall
Lost for Forty Days	238	(12)
Robert J. Mullins
Look At Those Bass!	250	(4)
J. Harvey Jeffries
A Tiger Has Killed	254	(7)
Jack O'Connor
The Gamest Fish of All	261	(5)
Roderick Haig-Brown
Dalls of the Yukon	266	(7)
Charles Elliott
Stag Line	273	(8)
Bill Rae
Brown Bears Do Attack	281	(6)
Ralph W. Young
My Last Grizzly	287	(6)
Dan Ludington
James Doherty
Ray Bergman Says Goodbye	293	(6)
Ray Bergman
Easy Does It	299	(5)
Robert Traver
New Record Whitetail: A Five-Year Stalk	304	(7)
Al Dawson
This Happened to Me	311	(14)
The Myster Beasts	325	(7)
Ted Janes
The Illusion That Kills - A Thing Called Early Blur	332	(6)
Frank Woolner
How to Shoot the Bird of Peace	338	(6)
Nord Riley
I Had to Have Moose	344	(7)
Olive A. Fredrickson
How It Feels to Die	351	(7)
Dr. Judd Grindell
Wolves Don't Live By Rules	358	(8)
Frank Glaser
Jim Rearden
Heaven Is a Steelhead	366	(6)
Joe Brooks
Breakfast at Midnight	372	(7)
Jey Mellon
The Henry Poolman Story	379	(7)
J. S. Barrett
My Toughest Patrol	386	(6)
Don D. Ellis
Old Paint	392	(6)
Larry Dablemont
Hunt for a Man-Killer	398	(6)
Raymond R. Lyons
Pheasant from the Butt	404	(5)
Nord Riley
Billabong Buff	409	(4)
Jim Carmichel
Greatest Mule Deer of Them All	413	(5)
Doug Burris, Jr.
Twist's Last Morning	418	(2)
David Michael Duffey
The Leap	420	(3)
Jerry Gibbs
Danger Stalks Their Jobs	423	(5)
Amos Burg
Ben East
Doggone!	428	(4)
Joel M. Vance
Deer Camp	432	(4)
John D. Randolph
The All-Time No. 1 Whitetail	436	(5)
Ron Schara
The Teeming Desert	441	(5)
Byron W. Dalrymple
Last Gobbler	446	(5)
Bruce Brady
Record Book Bear the Hard Way	451	(4)
Creig M. Sharp
John Cartier
Index	455