More Rabid Pursuits of a Redneck Environmentalist
6 x 9, 288 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. Like its predecessor, the original Country Sports (2004), Country Sports II (2015), features near 100 essays of outdoor sport that range well beyond the usual “where-to-go” and “how-to-do-it” of the Hook & Bullet press. Sporting sharp opinion, insight, and the skills of a natural-born raconteur, the […]
Hound-Dogs, Catfish, and Other Pursuits Afield
A Literate, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Humorous Look at Running Dogs, Rural America, and Angling for Fishes Big and Small In this collection of twenty essays and five pieces of short fiction. M.H. Salmon recalls a life of sport in which he seldom casts a fly and rarely swings on a bird. Instead, he roams the […]
One hundred thousand acres of public land, complete with a year-round trout stream, potential ski resort, and butted up against the burgeoning town of Del Cobre, New Mexico, is something the local boomers and boosters – the “money men” — can’t resist. Stuffed with dreams of growth and privatization, they will stop at nothing to […]
When Harley Simmons, a “latter-day mountain man, river rat, and desert scoundrel,” returns from the wilderness to the town of Del Cobre he finds his life in siege. His father, a legendary wilderness hunter, is dead; his wife will have nothing to do with him; his son is protected from him by the courts; and […]
Arriving in Southwest New Mexico, itinerant bookman Jason Niles finds the town of Del Cobre almost too good to be true — a community at ease with its modest size, rich in the heritage of an ancient culture, and uniquely in harmony with the natural world. It is an idyll that cannot last. The boomers […]
A Southwest Journey
Herein is the remarkable story of a 200-mile wilderness journey down the Gila River of New Mexico and Arizona. Traveling partly on foot, mostly by canoe, the author was accompanied by a hound dog and a tomcat. His trip is replete with whitewater thrills, and angling for trout, bass, and catfish; ruminations on the wilderness […]
