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Filed In: Culture, Dog, Experience, Memories, Stories, The Sporting Life
I wrote a book about my Brittany named Winston and our travels together and how he pointed all of North America’s 18 major upland birds, from Alaska to Mexico. My......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Memories, Sport, Stories, The Sporting Life
It all started in the early 1950s. Back then, English pointers were the preferred bird dogs south of the Mason-Dixon Line, English setters were the grouse dogs of the North......
Filed In: Dog, Memories, Stories, The Sporting Life
In the last two issues, we’ve examined gastric bloat and torsion, hypoglycemia, hypothermia, and heat stroke. In the last part of this special series, we’ll look at poisoning. At 14......
Filed In: Experience, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
I met Mike when I moved back to River City after completing medical training. He sold medical equipment–everything one needed to set up practice. A quintessential salesman, loquacious and voluble......
Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Brief bits of wisdom, aphorisms, and proverbs are sometimes called pearls because they are precious and valuable. (These are the kinds of pearls you wouldn’t want to give to the......
Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Founded by John Barbour in 1894, the renowned British apparel manufacturer Barbour originally supplied oilskins and other garments to protect the growing community of sailors, fishermen, and dockworke...
Filed In: Experience, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
It was half past noon and the day was sad and gray like the underside of a bat’s wing. The drizzling sky stretched unending from horizon to horizon and made......
Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Although he personally wrote two books of note on upland game hunting and edited two more, Eugene Virginius Connett (1891–1969) made far more lasting and important contributions to the literature......
Filed In: Experience, History, Memories, Stories, The Sporting Life, Travel
Gardone, Val Trompia, isn’t a tourist town. Though that part of northern Italy is thick with natural beauty—ragged mountains, shimmering lakes, rolling green valleys—and Gardone’s ristorantes ...
Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Although he personally wrote two books of note on upland game hunting and edited two more, Eugene Virginius Connett (1891–1969) made far more lasting and important contributions to the literature......
