No Fences Here

Apr 11 2006

Hot Topics - Mike EastmanJourney back in time when grizzly bears, wolfs, elk, bighorns and mule deer lived in a wild and natural setting before the on slot of settlers moved in. Back when old trappers were still alive, like ones that trapped with Jim Bridger and Joe Meeks. A time when an adventures soul could stake out a chuck of western grassland, and country needed tamed with wild wilderness right out your cabin door. A book titled Cow Range and Hunting Trails by Malcolm S. Mackay takes you back to this special time. Mackay was an easterner who migrated out west in the 1890’s to find advantage. In the process he became a cowboy and outdoorsmen. The book published by Stoneydale Press is a reprint of his journals written solely for his family members in 1925.

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