A Hunter's Road

A Journey with Gun and Dog Across the American Uplands

Jim Fergus

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In an epic season of sport, Jim Fergus and his trusty Lab, Sweetzer, trek the mountains, plains, prairies, forests, marshes, deltas, and deserts of America.

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MY LIFE AS
A DOG TRAINER
Preserve wild game, use a trained dog.
Common ad slogan of
state fish and game agencies
I live in a small town in northern Colorado called Ayn (as in Ayn Rand; local boosters have tried to make a case: that the noted writer actually came here once and that our town is the model for a town in The Fountainhead, but I can find no evidence for either claim). It is a tiny community (population 13), not even on most maps. There aren’t too many shotgunners around and certainly no skeet range at which to practice, so last summer my rancher friend Billy

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"An absorbing, provocative, and even enchanting book. "-Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

"A Hunter's Road is that rarest of books, a word journey that can one minute have you doubled over with laughter, and a few pages later leave you wiping a tear from your eye. "-Tom Dodge, Heartland USA

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Jim Fergus

Jim Fergus is the author of the essay collection The Sporting Road and the novels One Thousand White Women and Wild Girl. His articles and essays have appeared in a wide variety of national magazines and newspapers, including Newsweek, Newsday, The Paris Review, Esquire, Sports Afield, and Field & Stream. Fergus was born in Chicago and attended Colorado College. He lives in southern Arizona.

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A Hunter's Road
A Journey with Gun and Dog Across the American Uplands
Jim Fergus

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Henry Holt and Co.
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October 1993
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ISBN: 9780805030082
ISBN10: 0805030085
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 312 pages
$19.00
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