What is this? (Sent by Jonathan Hanson) UPDATE: (Jonathan): “Apparently you screw it into a log or something, stick a piece of bait on the hook, and when something pulls on it . . . bang. Twenty two caliber.”
Month: August 2012
Our culture…
As demonstrated in our social center, the Golden Spur Saloon (I have for the moment ignored ranchers and cowboys, though the Spur’s site doesn’t). Click or double to enlarge either photo. Below, my late mentor Floyd Mansell in our front yard in 1986, with son Brandon, who now has his own kids, and a morning’s …
Bad news for houndsmen…
.. and all hunters. David Zincavage reports, furiously, here. From an unremarkable story, earlier: “California Fish and Game commissioner Dan W. Richards travelled deep into the wicked terrain of Idaho’s Flying B Ranch to fulfill a long-held goal. “It was the most physically exhausting hunt of my lifetime. Eight hours of cold weather hiking in …
Black Drink
This NY Times article took me back to my salad days in Southeastern archaeology. We know from accounts of the earliest European explorers that the Mississippian Indians drank a tea brewed from holly leaves that was referred to as “black drink.” Other than the fact that it was caffienated and played a role in some …
Malheur Butte
I took this picture of Malheur Butte in Oregon while in the field last summer. Malheur Butte was a landmark along the Oregon Trail. I really liked this picture because I caught the clouds building up behind it.
Aspen Pole Wickiups
After reading the comments on my Monday post about the collapsed structure we found at Kenosha Pass, it was clear to me that I had totally whiffed on trying to describe ” Native American wickiups, lean-tos, or tipi-like lodges built of aspen poles like these” and needed to use some photographs. These two aspen pole wickiups are …
Quote
Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. – H.L.Mencken
More on what is essential
James Caldwell, of the excellent Outdoor blog Old Gunkie in WY, wrote in with some thoughtful things to say about the meaning of “essential” possessions (see post below): “I’m finding hard to know what the word “essential” means. My wife has been taking students to Central America on medical missions for years now. When she …
Michael Gruber
Michael Gruber, our most original so- called “Thriller” writer, has a new blog up on writing and other matters of interest to Q- Philes. Gruber is nothing less than remarkable as a person & author. After a long history of ghost- writing, he emerged from obscurity with Tropic of Night, which is set in Miami …
Up on Kenosha Pass
Yesterday Connie and I took the dogs up to Kenosha Pass to do some hiking around and to see if we could get out of the heat. It was actually pretty warm up there, about 80 degrees. Last fall I posted some pictures of aspens we took on a visit up here. The dogs had …