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Ben Lilly left behind enough writings to fill a book - and this is it! It includes Ben's hunting diaries, his chapters on bears and lions, magazine articles, an interview, and personal letters. Plus over 30 photos of Ben Lilly, many never before published. Known as "the last of the mountain men," Ben grew to legendary status in both the Old South and in the Great Southwest. With careful, well researched annotations by editor Neil Carmony, "Ben Lilly's Tales" does much to separate the truth of Ben Lilly the man and hunter from the Lilly legend. This book will be primary source material for anyone interested in one of the great characters of Southern history, Western history, and the history of those hunters who have followed big game with hounds.

Meticulously researched, a fascinating and thoroughly documented account of Silver City and Grant County New Mexico.

A thrilling, suspenseful account of a lifetime spent as a professional cougar killer - with fascinating sidelights on forking rattlers, tracking deer, catching trout, and many secrets of hunting and fishing lore.

More Essays of Game, Fish, and the Rural Life.

A life-long hunter and guide relates the mysteries of the mountains and reveals facts about lions and bears, secrets of scent and successful hound training and breed philosophies.

More Essays of Game, Fish, and the Rural Life Like its predecessor, the original Country Sports (2004), Country Sports-II (2015), features near 100 essays of outdoor sport that range well beyond the usual "where-to-go" and "how-to-do-it" of the Hook & Bullet press. Sporting sharp opinion, insight, and the skills of a natural-born raconteur, M.H. Salmon trails his teen-aged son on a wilderness hunt to a quarter-mile shot at a mule deer buck; and, on a hunt for snowshoe hare, is saved from a killer blizzard by a clairvoyant Bassett. Elsewhere, the author takes on the fearsome, corporate-backed Hudson Institute in an organic farming debate, and the environmental movement for its failure to take on the issue of population growth in our own USA. He initiates, describes, and hunts with the prototype of a new breed of hunting hound; and fly fishes in Hemingway's footsteps. And more! "It sounds funny to say so, because I'm sixty-five, but sometimes I think I'd like to be Dutch Salmon when I grow up. It's not so odd when you think about it. M.H. Salmon is not only the model of the modern sporting writing, but I have been following his tracks for more than 30 years now...I salute him as not only a friend who has been a leader in so many of my own pursuits, but also as a pioneer conservationist and defender of all the Old Ways and things we must hold onto lest our civilization become too artificial to live." From the Introduction by Steve Bodio, author of Querencia

Originally published in 1950, first-hand memoirs offer a rare look at ranch life and big-game hunts in the Davis Mountains of West Texas and the Gila region of Southwest New Mexico, 1880s to 1920s. Indexed with black and white historical photos.

Deputy Sheriff, Town Marshall, Deputy U.S. Marshall, Train Agent, Livestock Inspector, Dan Tucker was the quintessential lawman during the violent frontier period of southwest New Mexico.

It was the "late days of the Depression," times were hard and money scarce, and Ben Green "had about used up all the hard ways to make a living a-horseback." So when he heard talk of wild mustangs free for the taking in the Big Bend country of West Texas, he saddled a road horse, put his camp on a pack horse, and headed west from Weatherford, Texas. Eventually, he rides, ropes, trades, and talks his way through the mountains and deserts of West Texas, northwest Mexico, and Arizona, gathering horses, mules, and an assortment of characters along the way. More than a year and a thousand miles later, he will try to cut the deal that will make it all worthwhile. Displaying a wry wit, sharp opinions and a measure of luck, Ben emerges from the wild unknown a survivor. But his greatest accomplishment will be to tell A Thousand Miles of Mustangin', a range classic that rides the Western Myth well into the 20th Century. "Ben Green was an expert story-teller, one of the best I have ever listened to, and having grown up around cowboys, I have listened to some of the great ones . . . I have seen him start telling a story to one or two people in a hotel lobby, and in a short time he would have a goodly crowd gathered around, listening. A master of the oral story-telling art, he simply transferred that knack to the written page." From the Foreword by Elmer Kelton

Since its first limited American printing in 1928, "Recollections of a Western Ranchman" has been largely unavailable and, even when found, affordable only by collectors. Herein is Captain French's original volume in a reader's edition, the story of a man who lived through the wildest years of the New Mexico/Arizona border country to leave us a frontier memoir with a human voice. In the midst of the final astonishing stand of Geronimo and his renegades, French displays a perceptive and balanced admiration for both the soldiers and the Apache tribe. At the siege of Elfego Baca, the author deftly delineates the hero from the bullies. When the outlaw Black Jack steals his horses, the Captain delightedly steals them back. And nobody has written better of Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch than French. Finally, his descriptions of ranch life and the Southwest wilderness are those of a natural raconteur who still held to the facts. Never the hero, though often heroic, French saw it all, with balance, perception, and a droll British wit.

MEET MR. GRIZZLY A Saga on the Passing of the Grizzly Bear Reprint of British Edition, 1950. Includes b&w historic photos. The memoirs of a one-armed Englishman who ranched, fought Apaches, and mostly hunted bears with hounds in New Mexico, 1882-1900. Educated at Cambridge, he was one of the most literate chroniclers of New Mexico's rural history. A great Old West memoir, and a superb hound and horse training book. His well reasoned comments on natural history, dog training, and the life of an early day cattleman are an invaluable reference. This edition contains a new story by Stevens about an unforgettable Old West character. Called "Front Name Dick;" a classic tale of rough, frontier humor.