Out home
Title:
Out home
JLCTITLE245:
John Madson ; edited by Michael McIntosh ; illustrations by Dycie Madson.
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Edition:
1st University of Iowa Press ed.
Publication Information:
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2008.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN:
9781587297359
Series:
Abstract:
Long out of print, Out Home is the first published collection of naturalist and conservationist John Madson's essays. Written between 1961 and 1977 for such venues as Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, Audubon, and Guns and Ammo, the twenty-one essays and one poem in this classic volume focus on game and nongame animals and the people who love them and their outdoor world. Madson writes of hunting and wildlife management, the tricks of whitetail and cottontail, the bewildering interactions of pheasants with their harsh winter world, the cliff-nesting geese of the Missouri River, biscuits and gravy a.
Local Note:
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
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Contents:
Introduction; Part I: Out Home; Going Out More; An Outdoor Ledger; Dallas Morgan and the Lion; Palace in the Popple; The Secret Life of the Cottontail Deer; The Bum Husband; The Passing of Little Sam; Pheasants Beyond Autumn; Part II: Under the Sun, by the Side of the Wind; Message from a Desert Island; Requiem for a Small River; The Running Country; The Prairie Blizzard; Where the River Fits the Song; The High Beyond; Part III: Old Friends; Giants in the Cliffs; The Dance on Monkey Mountain; Day of the Crane; North Again; Part IV: The Horizons of Home; A Letter to a Young Trapper.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.