My old friend Steve Grooms, author of two fine books on pheasants (here and here), as well as ones on wolves and cranes, called today. We probably haven’t talked in over twenty years. After much catching up, he gave me an email for more– but it keeps bouncing! He has a good- gun- and book …
Author: Steve Bodio
Good News!
If given my many hints and more it IS news. I have just signed a contract for, not one, but two books with Globe Pequot Press! The first, The Eagle’s Shadow, is virtually done: a natural and cultural history of All Things Eagle, with over 100 already- acquired illos from petroglyphs and shamanistic religious objects …
Radio
An interview with Guy de la Valdene, on The Fragrance of Grass, in which among many other things he says good things about writing by me, Joe Hutto, and Joel Vance, as well as his better- known hunting friends McGuane and Harrison. A cheerful reminder of why his book is so good…
PLF and John Huston
Leigh Fermor’s one venture into movie writing was with my favorite (and most literary) director, John Huston, but apparently it was not a success (although there were still some good times enjoyed by the pre- PC group. As the only available version of the movie is in Spanish, in Euro format, and subtitled in English, …
Hal Herring on Colonel Cooper
As mentioned below. In his excellent Amazon review of To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth, Hal Herring writes: “…Cooper is an authentic American voice, and the rare man who has read and written as much as he has studied weaponry, ethics, and war. He is opinionated- I never agreed with him about the …
Linkfest plus…
Good news announcement imminent (no, not the pending grandchild or as Mr P calls it “the Forthcoming Offspring”)– but I think I will wait until it is “on paper” so to speak. Somehow pixels are not quite as real… Also other news: going to Wyoming in August, where Libby will cook for an old friend’s …
Another Letter: Fran Hamerstrom
Or in her Beacon Hill accent and at her insistence, “Frahn”. She was a force of nature, a well- born Bostonian who defied convention and became Aldo Leopold’s only female student, a biologist, a hunter, a writer, and a falconer. She and her beloved husband Frederick lived for as many years as I have been …
The Girls in Santa Fe
Much more in a little, but just downloaded this pic of The Girls looking rather formal and on their best behavior while staying at the Peculiar’s last week midst the chaos. They behaved well, were a great comfort, and went to the graveside, though Lashyn (left) remained rather nervous the entire time. (She has a …
Bill Haast dead at 100…
The legendary reptile man Bill Haast died in Florida last week at 100. According to the NYT: “Mr. Haast was bitten at least 173 times by poisonous snakes, about 20 times almost fatally. It was all in a day’s work for probably the best-known snake handler in the country, a scientist-cum-showman who made enough money …
Belated Answer
Too busy! But re “digs him up again” in Mesabi below: the ref is from Ezra Pound in his pre- Modernist period; from “Sestina: Altaforte”, his sketch of the warrior troubador Bertrans de Born. He prefaces the poem: “Dante Alghieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer up of strife. “Eccovi! …