Synopsis
The stories in this anthology demonstrate why the pheasant has become America's favorite game bird. Some of the best writers in the field take their best shots at John Ringneck, covering the guns, dogs, lore, history, and conservation.
About the Author
Doug Truax is a writer, editor, and publisher whose interests include hunting, fly fishing, and managing land for wildlife. He lives beside a small northern Michigan lake that is home to nesting wood ducks and loons and is visited each year by hundreds of migrating ducks and geese.
Leading the list of notable authors-which include E. Donnall Thomas Jr., John Barsness, Michael McIntosh, Ted Lundrigan, and Doug Larsen, among others-is Sandy Smith, the former investigative reporter for Time magazine who helped break the Watergate story. Smith puts his veteran reporting skills to the task of uncovering the truth behind Panther's thwarted quest for a national title.
PHILIP BOURJAILY has hunted gobblers for nearly two decades across the United States in both spring and fall. He has interviewed turkey experts north and south as contributing editor for Field & Stream, and is the co-author of Fishing by Mail: The Outdoor Life of a Father and Son. Bourjaily lives in Iowa.
Jim Fergus is the author of "One Thousand White Women", "The Sporting Road", "A Hunter s Road" and "Wild Girl". His articles and essays have appeared in a wide variety of national magazines and newspapers, including "Newsweek, Newsday, The Paris Review, Esquire, Sports Afield", and" Field & Stream". Fergus was born in Chicago and attended Colorado College. He worked as a teaching tennis professional before becoming a full-time freelance writer. He lives in southern Arizona.
Steve Grooms has been studying and writing about wolves since 1977. From 1976 through 1981 he was managing editor of Fins and Feathers Magazine. He is the author of 13 books on pheasant hunting, outdoor philosophy and humor, natural history, fishing and fishing boats, trophy deer, health, cooking - even a memoir. Earlier editions of Return of the Wolf won endorsement from the National Wildlife Federation; it appeals to the general public but has also been used as a textbook. Steve is a member of the International Wolf Center and serves on the Center's magazine committee. He lives in St. Paul, MN and has spotted five wolves on his way to his cabin in Cornucopia, WI.Main photographer Michael H. Francis, trained as a wildlife biologist, is a wildlife photographer based in Montana. His photography has been internationally recognized for its beautiful and informative imagery. Michael's work has been published by the National Geographic Society, The Audubon Society, The National Wildlife Federation, as well as by Field and Stream, Outdoor Life, and Sports Afield magazines, among others.
Robert F. Jones was a novelist, contributing editor to Men s Journal, and writer for Sports Illustrated and Field & Stream. His books include Blood Sport and Bloodroot as well as multiple other works of fiction and nonfiction, among them the award-winning Jake and Upland Passage. He spent much of his life in western Vermont.
George Olson recently retired from the faculty of the College of Wooster in Ohio, where he taught art from 1963 to 2000. His prairie plant studies have been shown widely in the U.S. and England, includ-ing more than thirty one-person exhibitions at such venues as the British Museum (Natural History), the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Chicago Botanic Garden, and the Royal Horticultural Society. John Madson (1923-1995) is considered the father of the modern prairie restoration movement; his books include Where the Sky Began (Iowa reprint 2004), Up on the River, Stories from Under the Sky, and Tallgrass Prairie.
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