Cutthroat and Campfire Tales : The Fly-Fishing Heritage of the West

by Monnett, John H.

• ISBN13: 9780870815690
• ISBN10: 0870815695
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado

Summary

To cast a fly on high country waters in the West is to be part of an angling tradition that stretches back over a hundred years. First published in 1988, John H. Monnett's Cutthroat and Campfire Tales brings that heritage alive with its stories of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fishing expeditions. To the nineteenth-century angler, the West's resources appeared inexhaustible -- there seemed to be as many cutthroat trout in the rivers as there were stars in the sky. Monnett shows how the error of that assumption became all too quickly apparent, and also traces how the inevitable depletion of the trout led to early stocking efforts and changing attitudes toward conservation.

Table of Contents

Prologue	ix
For a Century to Come	1	(15)
In Search of Western Natives	16	(16)
Fishing the Diminished Wilderness	32	(13)
The Museum: A Yellowstone Reverie	45	(11)
Western Trout Flies: A Maverick Tradition	56	(11)
The Gilded Age in California: An Image of the Western Fly-fisher	67	(10)
A Rod Maker For the West	77	(6)
The Gentle Art: Woman's Place is on the Stream	83	(10)
High Lakes	93	(8)
The Grand Old Man of the Wind Rivers	101	(8)
The Finest Rod in Colorado Territory	109	(8)
Western Campfires	117	(8)
Bear Stories	125	(14)
The Old Fishing Lodge	139	(7)
Growing Old	146	(9)
Epilogue: The Legacy of History	155	(4)
Bibliography	159	(8)
Index	167