The Best of Field & Stream; 100 Years of Great Writing from America's Premier Sporting Magazine

by Edited by J. I. Merritt with Margaret G. Nichols and The Editors of Field & Stre

• ISBN13: 9781585745869
• ISBN10: 1585745863
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

Celebrate the heritage of Field & Stream, America's premier sporting magazine, with this fine collection of more than fifty great articles from more than a century of the very best in outdoor writing.

Author Biography

J.I. Merritt is the author of two books, as well as many articles that have appeared in magazines including People, Field & Stream, and Modern Maturity. He is the editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, and lives in New Jersey

Table of Contents

``The Soul of the American Outdoors''	1	(10)
J. I. Merritt
Song of the Angler	11	(6)
A. J. McClane
The ``Ferocious'' Commuter	17	(4)
A. J. McClane
Izaak Walton: His Friends and His Rivers	21	(7)
Roderick Haig-Brown
The Truth About Izaak Walton	28	(2)
Ed Zern
Roger's River	30	(7)
Ralph D. Conroy
Mecca	37	(10)
Nick Lyons
How I Didn't Fish the Little Lehigh	47	(4)
Ed Zern
Midnight Stripers	51	(6)
Russell Chatham
Not Far From Sundown	57	(7)
Arthur Gordon
Big Tuna	64	(6)
Zane Grey
Silver Savage Aboard	70	(6)
Hart Stilwell
The Early Days	76	(4)
Byron W. Dalrymple
Adrift With a Ditty-Bag Nut	80	(6)
Robert H. Davis
A Woman Through Husky-Land	86	(9)
Florence A. Tasker
Nothing to Do For Three Weeks	95	(7)
Gordon MacQuarrie
Burt's Gun	102	(6)
William G. Tapply
You Have to Know Them	108	(5)
Burton L. Spiller
Song of the Woodcock	113	(2)
H. G. Tapply
Love Me, Love My Dog	115	(2)
H. G. Tapply
How to Hunt Chukars	117	(3)
Ed Zern
When A Man's Thoughts Are Pure	120	(6)
Havilah Babcock
A Bird Like Christmas	126	(5)
Datus C. Proper
Growing Up	131	(6)
Norman Strung
The XIVth of John	137	(8)
Nash Buckingham
Monsters Real and Unreal	145	(9)
Harold McCracken
Tall Tales But True	154	(5)
George Reiger
Continuum	159	(5)
Tom H. Kelly
Miss Seduction Struts Her Stuff	164	(4)
Archibald Rutledge
Mastodon and Other Rare Meats	168	(5)
C. E. Gillham
I Don't Want to Kill a Deer	173	(7)
Ted Trueblood
The Last Buffalo Hunt	180	(7)
Jim Merritt
Saga of the One-Eyed Bull	187	(3)
Walter L. Prothero
Knife Against Fang	190	(9)
Frank C. Hibben
Crazy Caribou	199	(5)
Frank Dufresne
Alaska Peninsula	204	(5)
Duncan Barnes
Brown Bear the Hard Way	209	(8)
Bob Brister
Tenderfeet and Bears	217	(12)
Russell Annabel
Where Trees Grow Too Close Together	229	(6)
Keith McCafferty
When the Eiders Flew	235	(4)
C. E. Gillham
All for the Love of a Lady	239	(9)
Brian O'Brien
On the Ivory Trail	248	(13)
Bwana Cottar
Death in the Morning	261	(4)
Warren Page
The Elephants of Chirisa	265	(7)
Bob Brister
The Lion Hunt	272	(3)
Gene Hill
The Old Man and the Boy	275	(4)
Robert Ruark
Of Miracles and Memories	279	(5)
Bill Tarrant
A Hunter's Story	284	(5)
John Barsness
Fishtail Poker	289	(5)
Frank Dufresne
Bingo	294	(4)
Gene Hill
Tommy's Fiddle	298	(5)
Norman Strung
The Road to Tinkhamtown	303	(6)
Corey Ford
The Contributors	309