164円 "The most adventurous figure in the history of the 'Oregon country' is Colonel Joe Meek, Virginian, 'squaw man' and first marshal of Oregon. He was a frontiersman of the highest type." The Pacific Monthly 1905 Known by the Crow Indians as "Shiam-shaspusia" meaning "biggest liar of all," Joe Meek ...

164円 "In one season man-eating lions had killed and carried off thirty five natives from a Wonki settlement and when our expedition arrived the villagers had built huts in the trees and were literally roosting with the fowls for safety." In 1911, Frederick Russell Burnham published a short 12-page art...

164円 "Full of information on the mountain men, the fur trade, and the Indians." -Americana Catalogue, 1843 "Smith left Independence in 1839 in good company... mountain men Andrew Sublette, Louis Vasquez, Philip Thompson." -It Happened in Colorado "One of the best records of conditions and activity in ...

164円 Samuel Baker lived as a reputed Victorian Nimrod and was a milestone in the history of modern hunting through his works and deeds. The most interesting article in the December 1891 edition of the English Illustrated Magazine was Sir Samuel Baker's 30-page account of "Tigers and Tiger-Hunting." It...

2,122円 Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land. Fritz Dörries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world. Travelling alone or with his brothers, he climbed mountains, traversed great rivers, explored remote islands and crossed treacherous l...

1,657円 "A great explorer and scout of the West, the first American to cross the Sierra Nevada, a great pioneer." -California Senate Resolution (1953) "His escape from the dangers of the wilderness seem like miracles. Grizzly bears, Indians, and starvation stalked his path but just missed him." -Putney, ...

5,518円 Firearms: An Illustrated History tells the story of the gun using photos of hundreds of weapons. It traces every milestone from the first muskets to modern automatic weapons. Pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, machine-guns and artillery are profiled with beautifully photographed weapons and st...

164円 "Seizer of Eagles...is a true story: I have written it just as Old Sun told it to me." -James Willard Schultz (as quoted in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 6, 1922) "Braver, self-control and loyalty...the boy of this story learns these in ordeals he undergoes to realize his dreams of becoming a 's...

1,692円 The latest collection from one the country's most highly regarded outdoor writers takes readers bowhunting around the United States and the world. Don Thomas' rich prose brings alive not just the adventure of the hunts, but also the people, places, and natural history he encounters along his trav...

1,692円 For the past decade, Don Thomas's "Closing Time" columns in Ducks Unlimited magazine have received wide critical praise. Divided into five sections-Waterfowl, In the Field: Ducks, In the Field: Geese, Retrievers, and The Waterfowling Culture-this collection of those columns also includes eight ch...

1,326円 "A story of sport and adventure...by C.E. Gouldsbury...contains the sporting reminiscences of Digby Davies...whose reputation as a hunter of big game was so great...appointed...Tiger Slayer to the Presidency." -Boston Evening Transcript, Sept. 29, 1915 "Gouldsbury is a retired member of the Imper...

164円 "One of the truest and best sportsmen that ever shouldered a gun, strung a snare or set a trap." -The Pennsylvania Sportsman "One of the state's most famous trappers...an unsurpassed picture of an outdoorsman's Northern Tier Pennsylvania of long ago." -The Express (Lock Haven, Pa.), Feb.22, 1966 ...