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Pale Rider. In Orofino, Idaho, Elk Hunter Phil Ingram took aim, fired, dropped his quarry, later agreed to pay Farmer Homer Richardson $100 for the horse he blasted out from under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...went in the back way--by the ladies entrance--and, passing a color portrait of President Pusey, were led up to the second floor. "Our" room had in it two moose, two mule deer, an elk, and cocktails. WHRB had also arrived. The bartender asked if we were 21 and the bear sniggered...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: More Secrets of the Reef | 10/24/1956 | See Source »

Squaw and Pemmican Unite. David's pemmican is not a simple hunk of dried buffalo meat. It needs, for its perfection, to be compounded with thimbleberries, grasshoppers, elk marrow, pounded buffalo tongues, moose noses, beaver tails, fish fat, porcupine belly and otter blubber, not to speak of flies and maggots. Squaws, too, could be improved upon. But when Hero David meets a squaw whose bare bosom makes him think of a pair of "sun-darkened thimbleberries," the two passions of his career are united; he is a goner. To reassure critics of integration, Author Fisher takes pains to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Moose & Men | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

Shame on TIME for trying to pass off a sloppily stuffed sack of fur as a live elk. All your bugling hunter is going to lure out of that glass-eyed mount are moths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...Reader McHugh look again. Photographer Gerdts' elk was of no stuffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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