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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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, an...