Upland hunting · Dogs · Idaho
The art, culture, & beauty of upland hunting
Essays, field reports, dog stories, gear reviews, and recipes from two decades in the chukar hills of the American West — plus books from Chukar Culture Press
Recent Writing
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The Rim
Read more: The RimThe Rim is my first novel, started about 10 years ago during a creative writing class I was teaching. Parts of it have been published in literary journals, but this is the first time it’s been all inside one cover. It’s short, and dark, but has a lot about hunting in it. Like Chukar Culture:…
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Grace
Read more: GraceUnmerited favor. I’ve gotten out quite a bit so far this season. The weather’s been good. We recently took a trip to what — in years past — had been the best place I’d ever hunted chukar, for many reasons. We’d looked forward to it for nearly a year. But for whatever reason the hunting…
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Ellie’s Greatest Retrieve
Read more: Ellie’s Greatest Retrieve[NOTE: This is the “winning” retriever story, by Trevor Henderson of Twin Falls, ID] Quinn and I were hunting chukars in the rimrock country of southern Idaho, the kind of steep, unforgiving terrain where birds run fast and fly faster. The dogs were working well that morning—Ryder and Joker ranging close, casting along the rocky…
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Essays · Hunting · Nature
Chukar Culture: Memory, Dogs, Paradox
Seventeen years of essays connecting chukar hunting to art, music, literature, and the paradox of killing something you love.
$25
Fiction · Novel
The Rim
A Cree residential school survivor and an Idaho ranching family, bound together by chance, choice, and the mystery of the land.
$18
Fiction · Novel
Stay the Course
Ennis Sawtell returns — as father, husband, golf course superintendent — navigating a pandemic, a traumatic event at his daughters’ school, and a bold decision to leave it all behind.
$22
Oral History · Idaho
Let My Horse Bring Me Home: A Salubria Valley, Idaho Oral History
Eighth-graders interview twenty long-time residents of Salubria Valley, Idaho — preserving stories that would otherwise be lost.
$20