Author Topic: The first outdoor writer that comes to your mind. Quick! (Read 1590 times)

slim rem 7 · « **Reply #30 on:** December 15, 2009, 12:02:14 PM »

jack london.. now don t you try an tell me that he wasn t writing about real animals..slim
if they weren t they shoulda been..they were my childhood heros

teamnelson · « **Reply #31 on:** December 15, 2009, 12:21:02 PM »

Outdoor writer ... James Fenimore Cooper.

oldandslow · « **Reply #32 on:** December 15, 2009, 12:47:29 PM »

Of the writers that have passed on Jack O'Conner with Skeeter Skelton a close second. Peter Capstick wasn't too slouchy either. Of today's active writers I'll go with John Taffin.

mechanic · « **Reply #33 on:** December 15, 2009, 02:30:14 PM »

Quote from: TeamNelson on December 15, 2009, 12:21:02 PM

Outdoor writer ... James Fenimore Cooper.

Good thinkin'. I didn't think of old James.....classics.

tucoblue · « **Reply #34 on:** December 15, 2009, 03:24:38 PM »

Skeeter Skelton, Bill Jordan, Elmer Keith, Grits Gresham, Jack O'Conner, Bob Ruark, Ted Trueblood, a fellow whose name eludes me, kind of short, blocky, black moustache. Passed at a fairly young age. Wow........

Wyo. Coyote Hunter · « **Reply #35 on:** December 15, 2009, 03:27:59 PM »

$:-\$ blue, could that be Larry Koller?

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rio grande · « **Reply #36 on:** December 15, 2009, 03:49:34 PM »

Major George Nonte, firearms.
http://shootingwithhobie.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, outdoors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson.

My first thought was Skeeter. He was the real thing. But I liked Nonte too. He was smart, and a character. Don't see many like those two in a Massad Ayoob kind of world.
Hey, tucoblue did mention Nonte..." a fellow whose name eludes me, kind of short, blocky, black moustache. Passed at a fairly young age."
That's him, died at 52.

hunt-m-up · « **Reply #37 on:** December 15, 2009, 04:54:17 PM »

Capstick of "Death in the Long Grass" fame and O'Conner

fredster22 · « **Reply #38 on:** December 15, 2009, 05:17:54 PM »

Jack- Elmer-Skeeter and then a local boy Leonard Lee Rue III

nw_hunter · « **Reply #39 on:** December 15, 2009, 07:18:54 PM »

Quote from: Questor on December 14, 2009, 04:20:51 PM

Elmer Keith.

All these pansified perfumed poppinjany pantywaists writing in the magazines today make me want to puke. The world needs more Elmer Keiths.

Keith

Sourdough · « **Reply #40 on:** December 15, 2009, 07:49:02 PM »

Hunting the Hunters: An Alaskan's Pursuit of North America's Most Valuable Predators. Rick Kinmon (Author)

Won't say he is the best, but I am currently reading it so it popped into my mind when I saw this thread. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best, I would rate it about an 8. While he is not the best writer, he gives some valuable information.

kwells2006 · « **Reply #41 on:** December 15, 2009, 07:50:23 PM »

Aldo Leopold

alsaqr · « **Reply #42 on:** December 16, 2009, 02:28:40 AM »

Jack O'Conner

beerbelly · « **Reply #43 on:** December 16, 2009, 04:07:31 AM »

Robert Rourk
Beerbelly

Glanceblamm · « **Reply #44 on:** December 16, 2009, 04:12:43 AM »

I read Keith & O'conner as a youngster and with great intrest but it was the advice of...

Jim Carmichael

That I followed when I moved up to my first centerfire.

Questor · « **Reply #45 on:** December 16, 2009, 04:18:45 AM »

I think it's important to note the filters of history. Most of the old stuff written by the writers most noted here wasn't all that good. Their surviving work is their best. When we consider some of today's writers, we should take this phenomenon into account. For example, I'm not a big fan of Boddington on a month to month basis, but when I look at his best work, he is a fine writer and will be one of the greats eventually.

bkraft · « **Reply #46 on:** December 16, 2009, 05:12:35 AM »

Hemingway, Falukner, Rourk, and Hill

skarke · « **Reply #47 on:** December 16, 2009, 05:19:38 AM »

Randy Lemmon.......................Oh, he's a Texas Coastal Gardening expert. Does that count? I mean, after all, it is outside stuff.

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #48 on:** December 16, 2009, 05:26:02 AM »

Hate to say this but I think they all wrote indoors. The type writter cords don't reach outdoors.

Peter H. Capstick. +1 but since it was already named. Gotta Love a Jersey Boy.
Lt. Col Patterson (Man Eaters of Tsalvo)
JA Hunter.
Boddington
And don't forget Jim Corbett

rio grande · « **Reply #49 on:** December 16, 2009, 05:54:54 AM »

Great outdoor writer, "Nessmuk".
http://www.oldjimbo.com/survival/racquette/nessmukbydale.html

streak · « **Reply #50 on:** December 16, 2009, 06:13:06 AM »

Warren Page

Empty Quiver · « **Reply #51 on:** December 16, 2009, 06:41:09 AM »

Grisham, and a split second later Wayne Van Zwoll.

Tonk · « **Reply #52 on:** December 16, 2009, 06:48:59 AM »

The first to come to my mind was Jack O'Conner & Elmer Keith, then Bill Jordan & Skeeter Skelton, with Grits Grisham.
However, my favorite reading writer of all time is "Peter Hathaway Capstick", you just could not put his books down until you finished them or at least the chapter. I also enjoyed Finn Aagaard an bunch......he told it like it was simply put. We don't have writers like that anymore and that is a real shame.

Skunk · « **Reply #53 on:** December 16, 2009, 07:24:09 AM »

Quote from: mcwoodduck on December 16, 2009, 05:26:02 AM

Hate to say this but I think they all wrote indoors. The type writter cords don't reach outdoors.

I'm not sure if electric typewriters were even invent when some of the writers named on this thread were around.

AtlLaw · « **Reply #54 on:** December 16, 2009, 03:26:19 PM »

J. O'C no question.

kwells2006 · « **Reply #55 on:** December 16, 2009, 03:27:48 PM »

Quote from: Skunk on December 16, 2009, 07:24:09 AM

Quote from: mcwoodduck on December 16, 2009, 05:26:02 AM
Hate to say this but I think they all wrote indoors. The type writter cords don't reach outdoors.

I'm not sure if electric typewriters were even invent when some of the writers named on this thread were around.

Aldo Leopold wrote free hand and none of his stuff was published till after his death. He was around before the electric typewriters

zoner · « **Reply #56 on:** December 16, 2009, 03:56:05 PM »

Bob Milek

Wyo. Coyote Hunter · « **Reply #57 on:** December 20, 2009, 02:43:50 PM »

Sourdough, where could I purchas the book you menitoned?

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sagegrouse715 · « **Reply #58 on:** December 20, 2009, 06:04:38 PM »

Gordon McQuarrie

SM Bob · « **Reply #59 on:** December 20, 2009, 06:19:28 PM »

Bob Millek, Skeeter Skelton, Col. Charels Askins, Bill Jordan.

Robert

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