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'The Still-Hunter' is still an American classic

By James A. Swan, Ph.D.
Author"In Defense of Hunting"

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

It's not often that you have the chance to write a review of the same book that Theodore Roosevelt reviewed. But the first edition of "The Still-Hunter: A Practical Treatise On Deer Stalking" was published Dec. 30, 1882. It then sold for $2 and Roosevelt loved it. "The Still-Hunter" has since gone through 17 editions, with the most recent being a 2004 "Classics of American Sport" edition (Stackpole Books, paperback, $16.95), with a foreword by the editor, Robert Wegner — perhaps the forem ...

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