This is either overdue or redundant. But when I sent some of these to not very “Anonymous” commenter- in- chief Lane Batot, to satisfy his curiosity about the country, he thought I should blog them. The physical “structure” of the land, and its use patterns, will be utterly familiar to Westerners but perhaps a bit …
Tag: The West
Working Rifles
A .30- 06 on an 03 A3 Springfield action (lower) and a modern Euro- style Czech Mauser .223. Any of you scholars know why the Springfield has a military trigger guard but a blind magazine?
“But it doesn’t snow in the southwest!”
Actually said to me a few years ago by a New Jersey Nuevo, in July. As the property he bought was on a dirt road at 7500 feet in Catron county, where the winters can be positively Montanan, I knew he was in for a surprise… The illusion remains. I was idly watching morning TV …
Magdalena Lion Hunt
My friend and “cousin”, local rancher, reader, and hunter Sissy (Mary Helen Gianera Pound) Olney, ran into us in the Capitol Bar in Socorro yesterday and told us to look up this YouTube of her husband Tom and nephew Royce hunting mountain lions in the Magdalenas on horseback with hounds, the traditional way. The video, …
East/ West: Architecture
Or “vernacular” architecture in Christopher Alexander’s words… This is NOT Magdalena (though I have had people insist it is and even locate it); it is Bayan Nuur in Olgii aimag.Nor are these.This is:I even put plastic on the windows.
Born to Hunt
John Barsness has just released his latest book, Born to Hunt, a collection of essays that ranges from his home in Montana to Africa and the Arctic, along with more obscure destinations like Norway and Ireland. If you read magazines you surely know that John is one of the most prolific “gun writers” alive, as …
Sagebrush
Cat had me out on the mesas looking at natural and local history. I saw any number of golden eagles and literally hundreds of antelope– I thought I lived in antelope country– but the p & s made the raptors into dots and only this antelope, one of several bucks who stood his ground, was …
Wyoming
Back from Wyoming, exhausted, behind, but happy we went. Lib cooked for a wedding in Jackson , for the daughter of one of many old climbers and Outward Bound guides who she knew in her days there, when as they say “the billionaires hadn’t kicked out the millionaires.” In her day it was more a …
“Zarzo”
…is what Tom Russell calls Montana poet, sometime cowboy, and hard- core writer Paul Zarzyski Recently Tom sent me Zarzyski’s 51–“30 poems, 20 lyrics, 1 Self- Interview”, and it is the best “Western” book and the best “Writing” book I have read in an age. Paul is often lumped with the Cowboy Poets and has …
Season’s Change: A little Photo Bogging
… to hold you. Apologies for light content; I have been very busy on everything from house repair to mushrooming to just exercising for my health (exhausting). I am also trying, no, plotting, to revive Q- the- Book, at least in NM… Meanwhile: Monday, my neurologist gave me a thumbs- up. Performance was up in …