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Contents: Looking Back (In 1895, a small regional magazine was founded in the Midwest. Then it grew), Best Of The Rest (A magazine’s greatest treasure is its writers. Some gems from Gene Hill, A.J. McClane, Robert Ruark, Ted Trueblood, George Reiger, Norman Strung, Bob Brister, Warren Page and Ed Zern, plus Corey Ford’s unforgettable “The Road To Tinkhamtown”), Field Dressed (What we wear has always said who we are – and we are hunters and fishermen), Driving Forces: 100 Years Of Motorized Sportsmen (The automobile offered us freedom and adventure, and we took it to our hearts), A Century Of Piscatorial Progress (Anglers who yearn for the good old days do not remember what the good old days were like), More Bang For The Buck (Guns have improved enormously in the last century…but they’ve changed very little), Something About A Dog (Dogs have always had a special place in Field & Stream. We salute this relationship inexcerpts from Havilah Babcock, John Taintor Foote, Datus Proper, Burton Spiller, and our own Gun Dogs Editor, Bill Tarrant), Best Of The Best – Covers (They’re like the faces of old friends you haven’t seen for years), Tap’s Tips (For thirty-five years, Tap Tapply turned out miniature masterpieces of outdoor advice), Photo Gallery (Our memories may fail, but pictures capture the fields and stream forever), By The Way (These old gadgets, gizmos, concepts and ads weren’t meant to be funny, but…), Conservation Scorecard (Sportsmen have fought a long and often lonely battle to save our wild places. Here’s how we’ve done), Laughing All The Way (The need to snicker at our antics has produced some memorable writing, sampled here in excerpts from Patrick McNanus, Nick Lyons, Joel Vance, W.C. Tuttle, Russell Annabel, Ted Leeson, Cliff Hauptman and Ray Bronk), Growing Up Wild And Free (If you took to the outdoors as a kid, you know how exciting those early years could be. Five writers tell us about their own good young days), A Thrill An Issue (You never feel half so alive as when your pulse pounds. Armchair adventurers could face danger every month in yarns by Zane Grey and other tellers of hair-raising tales), The Hardbark Gallery (From the fevered brain of a great illustrator, a collection of ads that never were), Hindsight (All good things must come to an end…even our 100th Anniversary issue)
Issue: October 1995
Condition: Very Good