Fellow Frontier Partisan Chas Clifton has posted on the passing of Thomas McIntyre.
McIntyre was an exceptional outdoor writer, hunting writer… hell, just a fine writer, period. I was gobsmacked when he started corresponding with me through Frontier Partisans, and even more astonished and delighted when he honored me with a request for a blurb on his magnum opus Thunder Without Rain, a history of the Cape Buffalo. It’s an exceptional work and one helluva way to cap a storied career. It’ll be out in February 2023, and will have an honored place in my library.
Chas has a fine post up at Southern Rockies Nature blog, and I urge you to head over there and read it.
And raise a horn to one of the great ones. We shall not see his like again.
Matthew says
Terrible shame.
On an off topic, the Art of Manliness has a podcast on the Comfort Crises
https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/health/podcast-708-overcoming-the-comfort-crisis/
The author mentions going on a month long Caribou hunt in Alaska.
JimC says
His book is worthy.
Chas S Clifton says
Thanks, Jim.
David Wrolson says
Damn, that sucks. I have an EBook copy of ‘Augusts in Africa” that just moved to the top of the TBR stack.
Cool beans about the blurb on his book.
I read a few pages of “Indigenous Continent” but I set it aside for a book that might get me drummed out from the FP Campfire. LOL
I started Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” Don’t ask me why as I have read very few of the classic novels. I normally read several books at a time-but I decided to concentrate on “Crime and Punishment” so I can actually finish the damn thing. About 1/4 of the way in and not bad so far.
I was maybe going to read “War and Peace” this winter and I still might-but we will have to see on that.
However, I lent Frederick Russell Burnham’s 2 autobiographical books to the same pastor that loved the GMF books I lent him.
So does that get me back to the campfire?-LOL.
JimC says
Oh, there’s plenty of room at the campfire for the classics. Think of it as a form of Rocky Mountain College.
Matthew says
Dostoevsky is worth the time and concentration it takes.
I read War and Peace during summer break in High School. I was real proud of myself…….until I realized I had read an abridged copy. Then I was disappointed.
Travis S. says
My introduction to Mr. McIntyre was in 2017 when he appeared on episode #77 of the MeatEater podcast, which led me to read Augusts In Africa. When it comes to writing about hunting in Africa, I rate him every bit the equal of Capstick, Ruark and Hemingway. Since reading is likely as close as I’ll ever get, I appreciate work like his very much. Rest In Peace, sir.
JimC says
Thanks for that Travis. I agree.
Yeoman says
I was surprised when he started commenting on my blog fairly recently. His last post on it was wishing me well after a recent surgery.
A great loss.
lane batot says
Sorry to hear about McIntyre. But I SURE want that book! I dearly love Cape(African) Buffalo–just recently purchased a couple of plastic fetishes of them to add to my out-of-control plastic critter figure collection, that fills every niche in my house, many of them roaming amongst the bookshelves where my out-of-control book collection resides…….And I for one personally HEARD that “Thunder Without Rain” when I was in Africa and came up suddenly(on foot, and armed with nothing but a knife) on a herd of about two hundred Cape Buffalo, which, luckily, chose to flee rather than attack, though they stopped a coupla times to consider the options(yes, I had a handy climbable tree at my side as they did!), and when they turned to run, the very ground shook! Thunder indeed! And again in the camp I was staying in when–probably lions–stampeded a herd through our camp, and the only reason I’m here pecking out this message, is because my little pup tent was pitched by a thick, tall acacia tree, which caused the herd to split and run around the tree, my miniscule tent nestled on the downside of the stampede! One of the beasts tripped over my guywire and pulled it up, collapsing my tent, and I distinctly heard it’s breath whoosh out of it’s lungs when it fell! Boy howdy, was the ground shaking then, too! Nothing I could do but curl in a ball and let the stampede pass–I’m lucky as crap! Still, though I LOVE Cape buffalo!
JimC says
Great stuff Lane.