Upland authors

[stumpstalker]

The cold winds are starting to blow again.

So, by following Forum posts (thank you all) and looking elsewhere, I have assembled a non-alphabetical and desultory list of North American "Upland" authors.

Please feel free to add, comment or challenge my entries or the notes -- my notes or those I have derived from Forum and other sources.

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UPLAND HUNTING BOOKS

Harold P. Sheldon-- the TRANQUILITY trilogy; strongly endorsed by the Editor.
Henry William Hebert ("Frank Forrester"), novelist, "father of sporting literature")

Corey Ford
Nash Buckingham
George Bird Evans, prolific , an "all-time great", friend of the Ruffed Grouse, Old Hemlock line of English Setters

Jack O'Connor ---Master gun and hunting writer; a few Upland stories, i.e., on Western Quail and wrote "Pheasants I love You!" under a pseudonym

John A. Knight-- RUFFED GROUSE; WOODCOCK
C. T. Buckman -- 75 YEARSWITH A SHOTGUN
George King --THAT'S RUFF
Paul E. Chase -- MEANDERINGS OF A SNAKE MEADOW EDITOR, essays about upland fine arts, books, history, guns, dogs -- "the peripherals"; book collector

Frank Schley
Ted Nelson Lundrigan
Gene Hill -- THE WHISPERING WINGS OF AUTUMN
Havilah Babcock
Ray Holland
John C. Phillips -- Bostonian; ranged South to Pamlico Sound.
Archibald Rutledge -- Southerner transplanted to Union College, NY; PA and then home again.

Ben Ames Williams
Burt Spiller -- hunting hijinks; abundant brio
John Taintor Foote -- dog stories
Horatio Bigelow -- Bostonian turned Virginian, lived and worked in Connecticut, too. Railway man.

Vereen Bell --
Robert F. Jones -- Labrador Retrievers
Steve Mulak
Charles Norris -- EASTERN UPLAND SHOOTING
Nick Sisley
Steve Smith
I. K. Stanford
Mark C. Dilts
Henry Marion Hall-- Canadian perspective; full color plates; strong on biology and management

Frank Woolner -- mid-20th Century local New England hunts with friends
Don L. Johnson -- how to
Ken Allen -- how to
Dennis Walrod -- how to
Charles Fergus -- belletrist; British gun fancier
Tom E. Waters -- TIMBERDOODLE TALES
Mark Parman -- A GROUSE HUNTER'S ALMANAC
Art Wheaton-- GROUSE COUNTRY
Fred Everett -- FUN WITH GAME BIRDS
Ted Trueblood -- THE HUNTER'S HANDBOOK, how to, leavened with narrative, includes some Eastern and Western upland.

William Arthur Wheatley -- obscure works; see PGCA Forum post 6-17-17
Steve Smith
Edmund W. Davis -- WOODCOCK SHOOTING , early 20th Century; reflective; hunted New Brunswick Province

[Opening Day]

Tom Hugler authored Woodcock, grouse and quail books

[Dean Romig]

I'm sure it must just be an oversight that William Harnden Foster escapes mention and Steve Smith appears twice...

I would add Bill Tapply, author of several books on upland shooting and fishing, not to mention his Brady Coyne mystery novels.



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[Garth Gustafson]

Upland Tales published by Safari Press is a collection of upland shooting stories from late 1800s - early 1900s

[Big D]

Gordon MacQuarrie - mostly duck shooting and trout fishing, but probably my favorite

[OH Osthaus]

Frank Edminster ( one of the authors of the NY study on Ruffed Grouse - The Ruffed Grouse: Life History, Propagation, Management )

also wrote a book simple entitled "Ruffed Grouse" which is a good read for the hunter

[C.O.B.]

The following titles were all put out by Amwell Press.
Feathers & Fins- Tom Hennessy
On Point- Henderson
A Quail Hunters Odesey- Joseph Greenfield
Opening Shots & Parting Lines- Charley Dicky
Hunting The South Lands, The Duck Hunter's Book, Bobwhite Quail Book- LaMar Underwood
Fireworks in the Peafield Corner- Archibald Rutledge
The Ruffed Grouse and The Woodcock books- George Bird Evans

[CHE]

Pheasant hunting - John Hightower with illustrations by Lynn Bouge Hunt

[Kevin McCormack]

Gordon Gullion - Grouse of the North Shore
John W. Mackay - "Mark!"
Frank Woolner - Timberdoodle
Worth Mathewson - Reflections on Snipe
J.J. Pringle - Twenty Years' Snipe Shooting
Guy De La Valdene - Making Game (An essay on Woodcock).

[David Yeatts]

Less we forget one of the greats Michael McIntosh and Jim Carmichael. I am reading Classic Carmichel now, which I picked up at the southern, a wonderful way to spend a cold winter evening in front of the fire with a glass of that dark stuff.