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Ain't No
Such Animal $12.95
"Ain't No Such Animal, ...Stories from the Ozark Hills" is a
collection of outdoor stories about the Ozarks, some true and
some fiction, originally published in the 70's and 80's in
National Outdoor Magazines. The first one, for which the book is
named, is the true account of an adventure by the author's
father in 1939. It concerns his first experience as a young
trapper on the Big Piney River of Southern Missouri, in pursuit
of a huge mink which his own father refused to believe existed,
and the peculiar circumstances stemming from a winter flood
which was providence in disguise. That article was published in
Outdoor Life Magazine in 1975. Another story, "Old Paint" was an
account of the author's boyhood on the river, fishing and
hunting and guiding from an aging wooden johnboat built by his
grandfather. That short story, published in Outdoor Life in
1972, won a national award as the best outdoor feature of that
year, and was published in a New York book entitled, "The Best
Sports Stories of 1972, by Ehre and Dutton. The book "Ain't No
Such Animal is in it's third printing, and contains 20 short
stories, illustrated with dozens of pen and ink drawings by
acclaimed wildlife artist Tom Goldsmith. It contains 256 pages.
Other stories in the book are, Fargo, Old Fighter, The Big Deer
Bet, Blizzard on Netley Marsh, Ghost Gobbler of the Phantom
Ridge, Catfish That Size Never Die, Silent Jack and the Master,
Tommy's Brother, The Shoot-Off, He Jus' Loves to Watch 'em Fly,
The Painter Creek Buck, The First Gobbler, A Lesson Never
Forgotten, The Relentless Pursuit, Come November, A Riverman's
Advice, Miracle on a Snowy River, and The Hymns of Christmas
Eve.
The Front
Bench Regulars $12.95
"The Front Bench Regulars...Wit and Wisdom From Back in the
Hills". This book is the author's recollections of his boyhood,
working after school in an Ozarks pool hall owned by his father
and grandfather, and the old farmers and rivermen who were his
best friends. He writes a hilarious account of what he remembers
of the nightly occurrences woven around the hunting and fishing
stories and tales those old men told which helped to steer a
young boy toward a life as an outdoor writer. This true account
of those years in the 1960's is all about real people and real
situations, and will bring a lot of laughs to anyone who
remembers the wit and wisdom of old-timers just like these.
Illustrated with dozens of Tom Goldsmith's pen and ink drawings,
the book is 240 pages in length.
Memories
From a Misty Morning Marsh $12.95
Memories From a Misty Morning Marsh, A Duck-Hunters Collection,
is a book filled with experiences of the author in pursuit of
his favorite winter past-time. It covers 48 years of
duck-hunting, from Canada through the northern plains states
into Arkansas. It is filled with duck-hunting adventures,
favorite retrievers and indeed, memories from far-off marshes,
flooded cornfields and bottomland hardwoods. The first printing
of this book is nearly sold out, a new printing is scheduled for
later this winter, and the book will be expanded, and given a
new cover. It's first printing was 224 pages, filled with pen
and ink art by illustrator Tom Goldsmith, and lots of photos
taken over the years. You can learn a great deal about
duck-hunting from this book, and a lot about choosing and
training a good retriever. But you will also enjoy the stories
and memories which come from almost five decades of
duck-hunting.
Dogs,
Ducks, & Hat-Rack Bucks $12.95
"Dogs, Ducks and Hat-Rack Bucks...Short Stories for the
Outdoorsman" is a twin to "Ain't No Such Animal", containing 28
more short stories published in the '70's and '80's in National
Outdoor Magazines. This book has a total of 240 pages, and is
also illustrated in pen and ink by Tom Goldsmith. Short Story
titles in this book include The Hat-Rack Buck, First Mallard, A
Christmas Puppy, The Last Covey, The Henry Hayes Catfish, The
Early Buck, The Slough, Old Crip, A Deer Hunter's Prize,
Christmas of '49, The Homeplace Covey, The Turkey Guides, Old
Smoke, A Christmas Lesson, Outlaw, Wally's Buck, The Legend of
the Creaking Wagon, The Ghost of the Dutchman Bottoms, The River
Buck, Mr. Magoo's Gobbler, The Ghost and the Graveyard Buck, The
Best There Ever Was, Stormophobia, Pfed Up With Pheasants, Mr.
Thompson's Field, The Lighter Side of Bowhunting, The Coon
Swimming Contest and The Great Flock. Buy these two books
together, because reading one will make you want to read the
other!
The
Greatest Wild Gobblers $12.95
The Greatest Wild Gobblers...Lessons Learned From Old-Timers and
Old Toms". Larry Dablemont's experiences with wild turkeys goes
back more than 40 years. He has killed more than 100 wild toms,
and called up more than 60 gobblers bagged by other hunters he
has guided over those decades. In this book he recalls the
greatest of them, some which fell, and many that got away,
recalling instances which helped teach him what to do and what
not to do as a turkey hunter. He also remembers the old-timers
who taught him what they knew, and those he hunted with in years
long past, and the stories they told. Filled with lots of humor
and nostalgia, this page book will teach you a great deal about
turkey hunting, but mostly it will provide turkey hunters of all
stages, from the greenest to the most experienced, some great
fireside reading as good as you will find on the subject of this
great game bird. You'll read it several times. This is the
second printing, and it is well illustrated with pen and ink art
and old photos from as far back as the 1960's.
Rivers to
Run $12.95
Rivers to Run, Swiftwater, Sycamores and Smallmouth Bass,
includes about anything you would want to know about rivers,
including plans for making a wooden johnboat. It is filled with
the history of the early days of float-fishing, the old time
river guides, tie-rafting, trot lining, gigging, trapping and
all the things early Midwesterners did to make a living on the
river. From this book you can learn how to fish the rivers, how
to paddle, how to camp on a gravel bar, pack a boat or canoe, or
go after a big smallmouth. It also contains several chapters on
natural history, the trees, the birds, furbearers, fish and
other unique creatures of the rivers, above and below the
surface. This book delves into the history of the people along
the river going back to the time of the bluff dweller Indians,
and includes accounts from writers in the earlier decades of the
last century, describing the rivers they floated and fished, and
what they were like in that time. It has 384 pages, and dozens
of old photos....and fish pictures as well.
Ridge
Runner $12.95
"Ridge-Runner...From the Big Piney to the Battle of the Bulge"
is the life story of the littlest paratrooper... He ran the
ridges of the Ozarks as a boy, helping his family survive the
depression by running traplines and paddling johnboats on the
Big Piney River. When World War II broke out, he joined the
101st Airborne and fought at Bastogne, where a small group of
paratroopers were trapped in the snow and besieged by German
troops in one of this nation's greatest and bloodiest battles.
He returned to become a top-notch fishing guide and one of the
Ozarks' most knowledgeable fisherman. This is the story of one
of the Ozarks' most colorful native sons... and this is a book
filled with humor and nostalgia and a backwoods philosophy that
will lift your spirits. The revised, second edition of the book,
"Ridge-Runner, From the Big Piney to the Battle of the Bulge" is
now available. The first 250 of the new books have been numbered
and signed by both Norten Dablemont and Larry Dablemont, and
will be personally inscribed at your request, until they are all
gone. The new edition has been added to, with new stories and
photos, and includes 360 pages, 56 more than the first edition.
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Ridge Journal Issue 1 $4.00
First Issue Winter 03 Issue 1 - Contents First Big Buck, The
Christmas Hunt, The Bird Dog--Old Spike, Old Bone and Cheap
Steel, Cold Nights Gigging Fish, Zane Grey's Bonefish, Dangerous
Game, Natures Corner, Reader Stories, The Outdoorsman's Quiz,
Newton Dudley-Current River Confederate, Colonel Calhoun
Hedgerow
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 2
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Issue 2 - Hunt Gobblers With Me, The Intruder, Dead Turkeys
Don't Talk, The Story of a Turkey Hunter, Stalking Wild Turkeys,
Outdoorsman's Quiz, Haunts of the Wild Turkey, King of the
Woodlot, The One that Got Away, Short Stories From Our Readers,
An Ode to the Wild Turkey, Colonel Calhoun Hedgerow
Lightnin'
Ridge Outdoor Journal $0 SOLD OUT of Issue 3, No longer available. Fishing '04, Spring
Crappie, Lunkers Under the Lights, Memories of an Ozark Guide.
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 4 $4.00
Issue 4 - Meditations of a Squirrel Hunter, October on Lake of
the Woods, Maybe They'll Be There in the Morning, Armour and the
Panther---Part 1, Be Still, Magic on a Fall Stream, Katelyn's
First Hunt, A Day For a Quail Hunter, Hunters!, Take Your
Mother-in-Law, Colonel Calhoun Hedgerow
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 5 $0.00 SOLD OUT of Issue 5 - Deer Hunter '04 One Last Hunt, Deer Camp,
Wally's Buck, Tribulations of a Deer Hunter
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 6 $4.00
Winter 04-05 Issue 6: Contents: The Buck That Got Away;
The Old Mallard; Legend of Old Iron Pete; Armour and The Panther
Part II; Ozark Christmas; Colonel Hedgerow The Way I see it
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 7 $4.00
Spring 2005 Issue 7- Contents... Crappie and Slip Bobbers, Brown
Trout, Mushroom Hunting and Turkey Hunting
Lightnin'
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Doves and Snakes
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 9 $4.00
Fall 2005 Issue 9 - Contents I Call Ducks, I Hunt Ducks, I Love
Ducks; The Great Minnesota Fire; Fall Turkey Hunting; An Old
Hunter's First Deer; Colonel Hedgerow Hates Pointers
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 10 $4.00
Winter 05-06 Issue 10; Contents - A Bird Issue 10 - Dog's First
Covey; Firewood For Christmas; Fox Squirrel Ridge; When I Was A
Boy; Sculling for Water Fowl; The Making of Tunnel Dam; Colonel
Hedgerow
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 11 $4.00
Issue 11 - Contents...Letter From an Ex Turkey Guide, Fine Art
of Sucker Grabbing, Bobble Your Stopper, Hobart and the Ground-Raker,
One More Hawg For Dad, Spring Dance, Night of the Skunk, Boat
wreck, The Smallmouth and I, The Catch, Colonel Calhoun Hedgerow
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 12 - SOLD OUT!!! $0 SOLD OUT of Issue 12, No longer available. Issue 12 - Contents... Gernonimo Knows Best, A Storm on the
River, The Rogue Gobbler, You Can't Go Back Again, The Whonka
Booger, My Stint as A Pro, A Hole in the Canoe, Don't Load the
Boat, Callin''Ol George Beamer, Spring Rescue, Conservation,
Colonel Calhoun Hedgerow
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 13 $4.00
Contents....Reader Letters, Grandpa's Bass, Gizmo's First Deer,
Quail, Quail, Cottontail, The Church in the Deer Woods, Always a
Fisherman, First Coon Hunt..and Last, Hank Says, The Circle of
Water, A Camp in the Mountains, On a Hillside in the Fall,
Colonel Calhoun Hedgerow, and The Duck Hunter
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 14 - SOLD OUT!! $0 SOLD OUT of Issue 14, No longer available. Christmas 06, Issue 14; Contents - Old Lures,
Christmas Memories; A Shotgun For My Brother-In-Law; Those
Magnificent Old Counterfeit Ducks; Disabilities Are Only
Relative; Grandpa's Christmas Trip; Colonel Hedgerow
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 15 $4.00
Spring 07 Issue 15 - Contents Wild Pork; Trout Fishing; Turkey
Hunting; Ambience and the White Bass; Biggest Smallmouth Ever;
The Bird the Devil Chases
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 16 $4.00
Summer 07- Issue 16; Contents - Beavers Bugs and Big Brown Bass;
Joe the Birdman; An Old Frogger Remembers; Several Snakes; Start
Early and Diversify; Pioneers of the Ozarks; The Sweet War;
First Fishing Trip; The Secret Pond; Colonel Hedgerow
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 17 $4.00
Fall 07 Issue 17; Contents - Scent of Hunting; The Kid From
Across The River; The Iron Forge Buck; Old Tramp, The
Specialist; A Man's Best Friend; How Duck Hunting Began
Lightnin' Ridge
Journal Issue 18
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Winter 08-Issue 18;
Contents - Catch a Winter Striper; That Turkey Hunting Thing; My
Choice...The Cottontail; The Kid From Across The River
Lightnin' Ridge
Journal Issue 19
$4.00
Summer 08-Issue 19;
Contents - Smallmouth By Sign; The Kid From Across The River;
Frog Legs And Catfish; River Memories
Lightnin'
Ridge Journal Issue 20
$4.00
Fall 08 Issue 20; Contents -The First Buck; Bluegill - Trout;
Meditations of a Squirrel Hunter; Colorado Elk Hunt; The Kid
From Across The River; Colonel Hedgerow
