Acknowledgments

I should like to acknowledge just a handful of the persons still living without whom, no matter how poorly made, these pages could not have been written: my brothers, Matthew and Leeds; Stuart Hutson, for quail and a long friendship in the wild; Thomas Brown for elk, Harvey Mudd for fly fishing and my first taste of the west; J. Mark Smith for his intellectual companionship; Glen Davis for teaching me how to read; Robert T. Cooke, for years of encouragement; John Sanders for his example; and, beyond all others, James McMichael.