Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Todd Tognazzini
Preface: Murray Outfitters, a Career Choice? A Labor of Love
¿1.¿The Horses: My Friends for Life
¿2.¿Turkeys by the Half Dozen: Spring Romance
¿3.¿A Lifetime of Adventure in One Day:
deleteSnakes and Turkeys Gone Wild
¿4.¿The Guide Should Take His Own Advice:
deleteNo Place for a Nap
¿5.¿Hot Boulder, Angry Snake: Snake in My Lap
¿6.¿If You Hire a Guide, Listen to Him: The Shadow
¿7.¿Foot Powder Where? A Very Uncomfortable Story!
¿8.¿Trophy Blacktail on a Harvest Moon:
deleteBested by a Big Buck
¿9.¿One Big Buck, Six Mighty Hunters:
deleteBuck on the Payroll
10.¿Two Men on a Hillside: Bluebirds Are
deleteAlways Good Luck
11.¿Rifle Shot in the Night: Lost but Not Afraid
12.¿Miracle Cantaloupe at 3:00 a.m.: Water in
deleteCow's Track (Rain?)
13.¿When Your Clients Are Family: If This Story
deleteGets Back to My Wife!
14.¿A Deer Hunt Too Perfect to Repeat
15.¿Are Those My Horses? Tired, Mean and Hungry
16.¿In the Dark and Lost: A Great Plan
17.¿Three Days in August: You Had to Be There
18.¿A Miracle in the Night: Sammi
deleteand the Moonbeam
19.¿A Spot of Gray at Two Hundred Yards:
deleteMore Than a Hunch
20.¿First Came the Letter: Cat Nap
21.¿Valley Quail Rags to Riches: I Can't
deleteSee a Thing
22.¿Fair Chase Mountain Quail: A Hard Mix
23.¿Even Guides Make Mistakes: You Put
deletethe Snake Where?
24.¿Tired, Frozen and Ornery.... Was It Bad
deleteWeather, Bad Luck or Bad Judgment?
deleteA Guide's Lonely Lament
25.¿Bone Marrow or Nothing: A Meal Fit for a King
26.¿Cold, Wet and Staggering Tired: Where
deleteDoes That Weatherman Live?
27.¿It Was a Long Day, Maybe Longer! Mistakes
deleteand Dumb Luck
28.¿Some Hard Lessons for All: It Should Have
deleteBeen a Great Adventure
29.¿Memories of the Places I Have Been:
deleteSpecial Places and Then Some
30.¿The Shortest of My Short Stories:
deleteAre These Stories Legal?
31.¿Those Unsung Heroes: The Women
deleteBehind My Adventures, a Special Kindness
32.¿My Version of Wilderness Hygiene:
deletePlease Don't Try These Methods at Home
33.¿Clients Both Good and Bad! Do the
deleteRight Thing
Index