Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1 Trailhead 1
The Reunion Hunt 3
Local Haunt 14
Scout's Honor 17
The Healing Hunt 19
The Descent 21
Something in the Night 30
My Boy Jack 32
Constant Companion 38
The Outer Limits 40
Hand-Me-Down Gun 47
Last Call 50
Dad's Cans 52
Chapter 2 Passages 53
Sense of Place 55
Gone, for Good 58
The Yallerhammer 63
The Meat Doe 66
Family Meal 69
Heavy Metal 71
No Surrender 73
Extreme Panfishing 76
Deer Central 80
No Long Shots 88
Holy Ground 91
The Hunter's Prayer 93
Chapter 3 Along for the Ride 95
Following Our Father 97
This Man Can Hunt 113
Mr. Mac and the Bushytail Gang 120
The Locals 126
Tough Love 134
Blood Brothers 137
This Old Bird Knows Turkeys 144
Blood, Sweat, and Bedlam 146
The Ritual 154
Chapter 4 Where the Heart Is 155
The Tag Team 157
The Ditch 162
Squirrel Town, USA 165
Swamp Things 171
Bitter Cold 173
Family Trees 176
Homeschool Survival 183
End Game 186
The Graduate 188
Chapter 5 Frontiers 191
The Last Wild Road, Part 1 193
The Land of a Million Ducks 201
Quest for the Mother Lode 206
Go It Alone 214
Los Santos de Puerto Rico 216
Giving Up the Dream 225
Little Big Woods 233
The Last Wild Road, Part 2 235
Index 243
Acknowledgments 255