Andrew Sacco
09-01-2026, 08:03 PM
One of the rare benefits of being the Parker Pages advertising dude is I often get solicited, approached, reproached or sometimes even hugged for the work I do (the pay is so good I don't need all of the above :rotf::rotf:) So with some permission I'm posting this for our members and interested others to see.
In all honesty I got an out of the blue email right before our site went down from a very interesting woman named Sunni Leavell about a book she and Dave Fjelline co-authored titled "The Lion Men: Letters, Hounds and the Legacy of the West." She asked if I might bring this to the members here and when I asked how she heard of us, she said, "David told me to approach you guys, you know who he is." Without a doubt I've only heard of him and all comments I've had on him are kind of like, "Oh, Dave...yeah, he's the dude, the stories he must have," or, "You don't know Dave?????" So at some point I have to meet him and even though I'm plugging this book I don't know much about him or Sunni- but they're two people I'd love to spend time with.
I spoke to Sunni and she's quite an interesting woman and I'd ask anyone interested to check out this very unique book. I am just now digging into it and it is available for purchase on Amazon. From the introduction it says "The Lion Men draws on letters, reports and personal exchanges of the Western States professional lion hunters and houndsmen...These documents provide a rare, unadulterated view of an occupational culture that bridged state wildlife management, rurual livelihoods, and the evolving ethics of predator control." If you're the type who enjoys history, wildlife biology and management and likes perusing letters, photos and documents detailing this topic I'd ask you to check it out. It is about 350 pages. I've just started reading it but I may have to save this for a wintry night and a fine glass of Scotch in front of the fire. It is full of letters, correspondence and photos of cats, hounds, horses and the West, things most of us out East only can imagine. This book is helping me realize a world I didn't know existed.
Sunni also asked us to stay tuned for Dave's biography "The Narrow Trail" due out very soon.
In all honesty I got an out of the blue email right before our site went down from a very interesting woman named Sunni Leavell about a book she and Dave Fjelline co-authored titled "The Lion Men: Letters, Hounds and the Legacy of the West." She asked if I might bring this to the members here and when I asked how she heard of us, she said, "David told me to approach you guys, you know who he is." Without a doubt I've only heard of him and all comments I've had on him are kind of like, "Oh, Dave...yeah, he's the dude, the stories he must have," or, "You don't know Dave?????" So at some point I have to meet him and even though I'm plugging this book I don't know much about him or Sunni- but they're two people I'd love to spend time with.
I spoke to Sunni and she's quite an interesting woman and I'd ask anyone interested to check out this very unique book. I am just now digging into it and it is available for purchase on Amazon. From the introduction it says "The Lion Men draws on letters, reports and personal exchanges of the Western States professional lion hunters and houndsmen...These documents provide a rare, unadulterated view of an occupational culture that bridged state wildlife management, rurual livelihoods, and the evolving ethics of predator control." If you're the type who enjoys history, wildlife biology and management and likes perusing letters, photos and documents detailing this topic I'd ask you to check it out. It is about 350 pages. I've just started reading it but I may have to save this for a wintry night and a fine glass of Scotch in front of the fire. It is full of letters, correspondence and photos of cats, hounds, horses and the West, things most of us out East only can imagine. This book is helping me realize a world I didn't know existed.
Sunni also asked us to stay tuned for Dave's biography "The Narrow Trail" due out very soon.