Word: poachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flashback, probes the minds and lives of Replogle and at least three other men drawn to the fire and the scene of Replogle's crime. Game Warden Bobby McGill pursues Replogle with the vengeance and self-righteousness of a whore gone straight. He had himself been a famous poacher until he was injured in a fall while trapping beaver illegally; the injury has forced him into honest work and accepting wages from a society that he sees as basically corrupt. Doc Mechling, a wealthy physician from the nearby town of Sixes, refuses to help trap the poacher because...
...world's rarest furs is the North Pacific sea otter, for the simple reason that except for an occasional poacher's pelt, none has been available for more than half a century. Lustrous dark brown and noted for their durability and warmth, sea-otter skins were prized by Russian czars even above sable. Chinese mandarins heaped huge rewards on Siberian seamen daring enough to cross the Bering Strait and trap sea otters in the Aleutians. But two centuries of intensive hunting brought the near extinction of the species. By 1912, when Russia, Canada and Japan joined...
...finest of fabrics for every type of wear. We are famous for maintaining expertise of the highest order in cutting and journeyman tailoring to individual order." Sure. All that hoary tradition. Sir, would you like to look at our Steep Rib Cavalry Twill pants or West of England Poacher's Tweeds? I see, sir. Well, here's our British Warm in the Snug British Officer Double Breasted style. The Crombie Pebble Finish is especially nice...
...FEET TALL. The African odyssey of an orphaned British lad (Fergus McClelland) leads him to the lair of a rambunctious old diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) and into a fresh and colorful adventure story...
...truth is not easily ascertained in a place like Viet Nam. Thus, changing his role from reporter to information officer, from newsman to "news manager" (as some would put it), Mecklin often got caught between U.S. policy and the passionate opinions of his former colleagues. "You are a poacher turned gamekeeper," a British friend told...