The Art of Hunting Big Game in North America

Hardcover Cloth 404 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1967. Attractive waxed tan boards with black and green embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored. Slight shelf wear. Edges and pages have the usual yellowing. AARON rubber stamped on bottom edge. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Previous owner treated this book with microcrystalline wax giving it a shiny, smooth coating that covers the fabric boards all the way to the inside paste downs.

Describes the challenges and successes that can be found in the different game species hunted, combining folk storytelling with scientific naturalism, and social anthropology.

In this book, the author takes the reader across early and mid-20th century America and takes us along to view the panoramas and byways of a time and place that has long disappeared in most places. His writing remains true to an American tradition that doesn't try to hide the realities of life and death. Although the author never wavers in his respect for game, there is no mistaking that the reader must understand the struggle between the hunter and the hunted.

In this careful study, one learns of the various firearms, the hunting techniques, and the knowledge required to successfully hunt the big game species of North America from Canada into Mexico and across the heartland.

Jack O'Connor was best known as a writer for Outdoor Life, magazine, where he served as Shooting Editor for 31 years. His knowledge of hunting and shooting was extensive, and he had a firm opinion on everything. He was one of America's greatest hunting and gun writers of the twentieth century.

Jack O'Connor authored over a dozen non-fiction books, two western novels and the autobiography of his formative years: "Horse and Buggy West: A Boyhood on the Last Frontier."