A tip if you go to the Library you will find the books of the articles he wrote for the big Three sporting mags of the time Field and Stream, Sports Afield and Outdoor Life. The books may be under his name but look also for Zack Taylor and Keith Crowley. The last author wrote a good book about MacQuarrie I got this off the web for ya. If ya ever sat in a duck blind or wet a line in a trout stream or shot a grouse or two this is required reading.
Gordon MacQuarrie: The Story of an Old Duck Hunter
Keith Crowley Biography
Table of Contents
By Keith Crowley with Foreword by Michael McIntosh
Hardcover: $34.95
ISBN: 0-87020-343-6
Paperback: $22.95
ISBN: 0-87020-344-4
186 pages, b/w photographs, 6x9"
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Although his typewriter has been silent for nearly fifty years, Gordon MacQuarrie's words continue to inspire generations of hunting and fishing enthusiasts. Through his "Stories of the Old Duck Hunters," most of which are still in print, MacQuarrie captured the intangible, emotional qualities of the outdoor life in a way that made him unique among his peers. As a result, his audience and his legend continue to grow.
Gordon MacQuarrie: The Story of an Old Duck Hunter is the first full-length biography of this literary legend. It explores the relationships he nurtured and treasured; records his coming of age during Theodore Roosevelt's Conservation Movement; documents his rise to national prominence as the first full-time, professional outdoor writer in America; and follows his life as journalist, storyteller, husband, father, outdoorsman, and conservationist. and By Zack Taylor who basically compiled MacQuarrie's articles into several books: Stories of the Old Duck Hunters and Other Drivel, More Stories of the Old Duck Hunters, Flyfishing with MacQuarrie: Fifteen Classic Tales
, Gordon Macquarrie Trilogy: Last Stories of the Old Hunters/More Stories of the Old Duck Hunters/Stories of the Old Duck Hunters.
Gordon MacQuarrie
1900-1956
Inducted 1998
Gordon MacQuarrie, born July 3, 1900, was a native of Superior. Following his graduation from UW-Madison, he became a cub reporter for the Superior Evening Telegram and became its managing editor until he joined the Milwaukee Journal in 1936. Even before 1936, he wrote guest columns for the Journal on outdoor subjects at a time when this was new and unusual.
He penned personal tales of trout and bass fishing, duck and grouse hunting, retrievers, hounds, and the whole spectrum of the outdoors. He authored articles for national outdoor magazines as well as the newspaper, and his collected stories were compiled into books like Stories of the Old Duck Hunters and Other Drivel. MacQuarries' contributions were cut short be a fatal heart attack at the age of 56. The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters annually awards the Gordon MacQuarrie Award in his memory for "distinguished contribution to and achievement in environmental communication."