Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Keep that bear shadowed, Ben was told; as soon as he could, McFadden would come back and shoot...
Like Ahab tracking Moby Dick, tireless Ben spent the summer and fall following his grizzly over New Mexico and Colorado. Faithfully he sent back his dispatches to the hunting party: "We will get him sooner or later-just as it suits you." Ben kept on the trail till the grizzly hibernated, though once he complained, "My gun froze on the route. I didn't have a mouthful of meat for ten days...
When spring came, Ben rejoined the party in Idaho. But the lost bear continued to haunt him. Three years later, long after the hunt was over, disappointed Hunter Lilly was still writing to McFadden: "I will never feel right until...
Root-Hog or Die. Southwest Historian J. Frank Dobie (Coronado's Children, The Voice of the Coyote) picked up Ben Lilly's trail back in 1928, when he met the 20th Century Davy Crockett in El Paso, read two chapters of his never-completed autobiography and listened to such Thoreau-like observations as "Property is a handicap to man." After Ben died in 1936. at 79, Dobie started back-trailing on his life in an effort to flush the truth out of the thicket of legend which had grown up around his name. The result is a briery...
...young man, Alabama-born Ben Lilly inherited his uncle's Louisiana farm but left his livestock to "root-hog or die" while he spent long weeks in the woods, hunting bear. As a husband he was no more successful than as a farmer. One day when his wife said, "Ben, you like to shoot so well, why don't you get your gun and shoot that chicken hawk?" he left the house and did not come back for more than a year. "That hawk kept flying," he explained...