Bows on the Little Delta

[Bear Heart]

This book is a must read.  Makes you feel like you are on a hunt with Glen.  Being from Washington, I do get a little down everytime he tells a story about someplace out here and then adds at the end that it was logged out or destroyed in some other fashon.  I read it right before going to bed last night and dreamt I was on a hunt and staying in the "Chalet"

[Grant Young]

I agree Bear Hunt- along with Fred Bear's Field Notes, this is one of my two favorite reads. Each book instills the reader with a no-nonsense feeling of "being there."            Grant

[Sarah]

Agreed. I read it recently and had a hard time putting it down. As someone who's never hunted before it was very informative.

[Terry Green]

I've read a good bit of it....its a dandy read for sure!!!!!!!

[Dave Pagel]

Great book, a lot of history and interesting perspectives.

[Trooper]

When I read that book for the first time I could not put it down.  That cabin is still in use today.  Just this past weekend on the hunting channel some guys were hunting out of the cabin that Glenn and Fred hunted out of.  Wow, that would be a dream come to just to visit that place and spend a night in that cabin and bowhunt!!

[Doc Nock]

One of the many, many things that impressed me about the book and tales of hunts, were the hikes in..with wall tents and stuff. We're not talking modern light-weight backpack gear and high-tech frames!

Dang those boys were some kinda HARD!

[kirkwhitehead]

I too like the book, hard tailed guys for sure.

kirk

[Longbowz]

Bear,

You didn't happen to get Glen to sign your copy at last weekend's shoot?

[Bear Heart]

Longbowz, I did indeed.  Felt kinda surreal talking to a Legend.  He was one of the most friendly and down to earth guys I ever met.
I did have to turn down his many offers to buy my 1964 Bear Polar for a whopping $5.00 though.

[Longbowz]

Yah - you should probably hold out for at least $7.50.  LOL

A few years back he would come to the Washington State Bowhunters rendezvous and do a slide show in the evening.  You could just see the years fall away when he started into the story of one of his many hunts.  Pretty cool to watch!

[chrisg]

I read it twice and had the same sense of the simple truths on every page, all kind of matter of fact. Like the stories of going to be bronco busters, 'Well, we could choose any horse we fancied out of the ones brought in for fox feed! We broke them in ourselves...' some kind of tough for a kid of 16. The same all the way through, if you wanna, you gotta do it yourself, no free rides. Humble and decent values too, a nice example many should follow. We are soft today with our high tech gear, 4x4s etc
He seems a real gentleman and naturally a down to earth guy. I wish I could get over there to thank him for the book in person.
chrisg

[Peter Arthur]

I'm reading it again now. It is by far my favorite book. Glenn signed mine too.. What a treasure.

[Cherokee Scout]

I have read it many times. It brings back a lot of memories.

[John/Alaska]

It's a good read and brought back some memories.

When I lived in Wa back in the late 60's & early 70's I use to hunt the Nason Creek reserve just below where the cabin was. Had my old BP recurve then. I met the gentlemen that were hunting out of there. I didn't know who they were at the time when they introduced themselves but one of them owned NW archery. I remember we did the normal how is hunting and stuff discussion and I was invited up for coffee as I was a pretty cold puppy when we ran into each other. They also invited me to come shoot at the Kenmore field range with them as I occansionally shot there too. Being young and too smart for myself at the time I never did take them up on their invites. I did see them hunting there later as well. When I read the book I remembered the encounter.

The Delta cabin is just a bit west of here at roughly the same latitude. I'm at 64-21 & the cabin is at 63-45 or so. I've thought about going back in there a time or two but have had more pressing things going on.

[d. ward]

This is my favorite of all.Number 23 of a limited edition of 200 hard leather bound with gold leaf (gild ?) around the pages.My son worked for NWA durning the time the printing was being done and he bought me this copy.This is the prize of prizes from my collection......bowdoc

[d. ward]

here's another pic of the number... please note of you are reading about Glenn,his name is actually spelled with,well you get it.Thank you bowdoc

[Coldfingers]

Certainly is a great read.

A couple of the fellers that post here had made a trip into the Little Delta a few years back (4 years ago I think?)

At that time, things were just as had been left right up to an old pair of size 13's

Perhaps those fellers will post some on what it was like to be there.

Scotty

[Swamp Pygmy]

I wanted to ask this question and its a little off topic so forgive me. But I think the readers of this thread can answer it.

I want to buy a Fred Bear book. Read some of his hunt stories and such. I saw there are either 3 or 4 Bear books. Which one is the best to read his hunting adventures, I'm not really interested in a biography.

I just figure with 3 books, there is one good one and two others that re-hatched alot of the the good one.

Thanks guys. I want to get Lil Delta too but I want a Bear book at the same time.

[Longbowz]

John,

I hunted in the Nason creek area too during the same time you mentioned when it was one of the few bow areas available.  We most likely ran into each other (bumbled in my case). Great memories.

Pygmy,

The only one I have read is Fred Bear's Field Notes.  Great read.