Two young Magdaleneans of our acquaintance attended a”steampunk” wedding in Denver, and from what I could see caught the Mechano- Victorian essence of that subculture better than anyone. Although the style is often credited to this book (and Lord Byron’s daughter is always a founding character) it is really a VISUAL style and came into …
Month: November 2016
Tom’s tour- and Book
A friend in Alberta snapped this photo of Tom Russell and Ian Tyson in fine form at a concert up there. My informant said that he told a story of bringing his Swiss Father-in-law over the Continental Divide at night to visit us and our hounds and hawks. It could have been a fraught scene …
Image
I am as vain as the next guy, and I had come to hate the way I looked in some recent pics, like this one at Helen’s signing: I looked so frail compared to Helen that somebody who did not know me asked if I were taking chemo! I HATE that- PD is bad enough. …
Little Carnivores…
Tiny dinosaur sign: found “art”, the leavings of a shrike, from Trent Kleppen up on the Hi-Line (which makes Miles City look suburban…)
Lion Tracks
Yes, lions follow us when we venture into the hills- I suspect almost always. From fellow Library Board member Bruce Holsapple, who has just published a bio of William Carlos Williams, a recent example:
Lever Gun Legacy
People from cities who hunt once a year think they must have he latest flat- shooting magnum to achieve success. So, often they miss because of an unexpected flinch, or end up destroying meat. Third gen ranchers like Miles City’s John L Moore (well, that is the nearest TOWN) know better: “My dad was a …
Hmmmm…
BEST quality Coggswell & Harrison London – made non- ejector back- action sidelock, 16 gauge, six pounds even with 29″ barrels choked very lightly (near cylinder and SK 1 by today’s standards; probably a “lady’s gun” with its 14″ stock as it is too ornate for a young person’s. Despite the length it fits very …
Chukar Hunting the Old Way
My long- time Canadian hunting correspondent, Alex Sharif, who I met through Valerius Geist, is primarily a sheep hunter and a mountaineer. But when he sent me a few photos from his cousin Afshin in Idaho,I was intrigued. Afshin is a Goshawker, and he hunts Chukar in the kind of country they have always inhabited, …
Wall Street Journal!
The fine writer Jonathan Rosen (The Life of the Skies) did me the great favor of reviewing Hounds of Heaven for the WSJ Review Supplement’s Christmas Books issue. What is more, he showed that he understood the theme of all of my work. If you don’t subscribe, the review is behind a paywall, but here …
Guardian/herding dog differences
I’ve written extensively about our relationship with our working livestock guardian dogs and have written very little about life with our herding dogs. The difference between the two types of dogs is remarkable. None of our guardian dogs over the age of about two months old has ever been willing to play with a …