Have you ever followed in footsteps of books you have read ? I have many times pretty awesome

The Maneaters of Kumaon has always been a favourite book of mine. Some years ago myself and my wife went to India for a holiday. Part of that was my pilgrimage to Kaladhungi and Nanital where Jim Corbett had both his summer and winter homes.
We met an old man, this was 27 years ago, who remembered him as a young boy. After this we stayed three nights in the Corbett Tiger Park. Never saw a tiger but heard them roar. Saw plenty of other wildlife and rode on a howdah on tame elephants amongst wild elephants.

I did have a Mojito at "la Bodeguita del Medio" in La Havana.
I don`t know if its counts ...

dgr416 said:

I love going on adventures where hunting books and adventure books are written .I went where Fred Bear ,Elmer Keith , Teddy Roosevelt , Russell Annabel, Robert Ruark , Lewis and Clark ,Wendel Endicott, Charles Sheldon and many more .I still found people in 1998 that had meet many of them and took me to old hunting cabins they used and took me on trails they walked .I even got to ride in an old bush plane from the 60s that waa used to guide polar bear hunting for many famous people .I found old hotels and lodges they had stayed in .I love retracing their footsteps .I really got to know alot of oldtimers who had taken lots of famous hunters hunting .I had a friend Jim Harris who helped Elmer Keith on a hunt in return Elmer Keirh invited him to his house for the weekend .They shot half the day ate good homecooked dinners from Elmers wife and told stories into the night .Another friend had taken Fred Bear bunting and Fred had left letters and boots and other stuff in their cabin which were still there 50 years later .
Roy Chandler hunted with a friend of mine he had written awesome hunting books .I gotta write my adventures of 12 years in Alaska

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Awesome is it not! I have had the privilege to sort of going in the footsteps of Commander Enderby Blunt (I believe he is one of the first to develop techniques to hunt crop raiding elephants at night) with essentially identical equipment. Penetrate a herd of raiding elephants and hammer the bully herd leader. Absolutely wild experience.

Tons of famous hunters and writers came through the town of Delta Junction where I lived .Wendel Endicot was one and Alaskas wolf man was at Blackrapids below there .Fred Bear hunted with friends of mine in the 1960s where I hunted too .I wish I had talked to the guy more that knew Russell Annabel .I think everyone that had been in Alaska a while had stories about famous hunters they meet .MY good friend Al Alvenger was best friends with Roy Chandler they hunted togethet alot too .The old stories were the best ones when Alaaka was really wild and free .I went back last year it was not the same place I lived in for 12 years .

I'll throw a little bit of a curve on this one.

I've traced Butch Cassidy's trail through quite a bit of Utah's badlands. He held up the Castle Gate payroll in the mouth of Price Canyon and was seen back in a Price bar with a very fresh horse in the afternoon. A good friends grandfather traded horses with him over the years. Then heading to the bad lands he crossed what is now I-70 near Eagle Canyon, there is a tombstone there that is supposedly where some herders found a sheep herder who had been shot. Questionably by one of Butches gang. To the south of this location there is a very narrow trail coming off of the plateau down to the Muddy River and then towards Hanksville and the badlands north of Lake Powell. On this trail you needed to be a very expert horseman or needed to lead your horse down a few hundred feet. On the way to the Eagle Canyon area there is a plateau called Sid's Mountain, we found a way up onto the top of it one year and found a cabin. A friend went scrounging around and came up with a old dutch over with two Colt 45's in it. Who owned the pistols or if they have any connection to Butch is just speculation.

I'll have to see if I can find some pictures, 3 moves and 1 ex wife things go missing.

There have been very few books written about this area or the gangs activities near here which makes it all that much more interesting.

My wife and I were able to take a 5 week camping safari following the footsteps of Arthur Neumann, Nairobi to Lake Turkana and the lakes in between

DaddyFlip said:

You sure you're not channeling Charles Morse in The Edge?

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I wish the hell it had not happened almost died and lost 92000 on that bad hunt
.A friend said they forget him on a drop hunt and he almost shot down the plane .That was in Alaska too .A guy going out on his hunt finally saw him waking his arms and told the guy flying that guy needs help..HE had also gone through ten bad days no satalite phones back then .The boy I taught to hunt just got left 10 days the plane broke down after getting dropped off .He only had a sleeping bag rifle and a little food .It took 10 days to find someone else to pick him up .

dgr416 said:

I love going on adventures where hunting books and adventure books are written .I went where Fred Bear ,Elmer Keith , Teddy Roosevelt , Russell Annabel, Robert Ruark , Lewis and Clark ,Wendel Endicott, Charles Sheldon and many more .I still found people in 1998 that had meet many of them and took me to old hunting cabins they used and took me on trails they walked .I even got to ride in an old bush plane from the 60s that waa used to guide polar bear hunting for many famous people .I found old hotels and lodges they had stayed in .I love retracing their footsteps .I really got to know alot of oldtimers who had taken lots of famous hunters hunting .I had a friend Jim Harris who helped Elmer Keith on a hunt in return Elmer Keirh invited him to his house for the weekend .They shot half the day ate good homecooked dinners from Elmers wife and told stories into the night .Another friend had taken Fred Bear bunting and Fred had left letters and boots and other stuff in their cabin which were still there 50 years later .
Roy Chandler hunted with a friend of mine he had written awesome hunting books .I gotta write my adventures of 12 years in Alaska

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I was so blessed to decades ago when I did business in Florida to stop by Fred Bears plant to visit and he was there and was so kind to spend an hour with me and sign one of his painting prints for me…priceless…I was in the room of a legend!!!

I heard Fred Bear was totally down to earth super nice from friends that hunted with him in Alaska .They went back and got his boots he left and couple of other things he left at my friends cabin years ago .I had my friend Jom Harris went to Elmer Keiths house with a friend that knew him .They shot guns ate spent the night drank wiskey and shot some the next morning .He showed Jim most of his guns and had a story about each one .He gave my friend a signed sopy of one of his books too .He asked Jim about many of his hunts in Alaska too .

dgr416 said:

I heard Fred Bear was totally down to earth super nice from friends that hunted with him in Alaska .They went back and got his boots he left and couple of other things he left at my friends cabin years ago .I had my friend Jom Harris went to Elmer Keiths house with a friend that knew him .They shot guns ate spent the night drank wiskey and shot some the next morning .He showed Jim most of his guns and had a story about each one .He gave my friend a signed sopy of one of his books too .He asked Jim about many of his hunts in Alaska too .

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I want to say I met him at his plant in 1983 or 84. He died in a Gainesville hospital where his plant was in 1988. To your point I was just a 20 something year old kid and he was so down to earth and just talked hunting. His plant had all glass so on the upper floor you could see every location of production. He gave me a guided tour and said he never tired of watching his bows being built