Del Cameron's "Call of the Hounds" Book
Del Cameron's "Call of the Hounds" Book is a classic written by a true hound hunter who pioneered professional lion and bear hunting in the northern Rockies. Full of awesome experiences and factual accounts, this book reveals the true-life hound hunting adventures of Del Cameron who knows hunting with hounds from the rough side out because he has spent his lifetime living it.
This book is an intimate look at lion and bear hunting with hounds in the northern Rocky Mountains. Del Cameron is a retired professional hunter, big game outfitter and wilderness guide. Acclaimed "one of the best hound books ever written," this 280 page 6 x 9 hardcover book richly illustrated with over 100 photographs recounts some of Cameron's most dramatic true-life adventures while hunting mountain lions and bears in the remote mountains of Montana and Idaho.
The book's 23 chapters include "A Hound Called Ben," "The Lion That Wouldn't Tree," "Death's Silent Challenge," "Bear The Hard Way," "Lion Lore And Bear Facts" and two startling chapters on hunting in Idaho's River Of No Return wilderness. A chapter on "Hound Training" has such topics as "Starting On Scent," "Striking From The Box" and "Breaking" as well as other training tips.
Some of the chapters were originally written twenty to thirty years ago so this book was not written sitting down or all at once. Nor are the stories dreamed up from an arm chair or retold from what others might have said or done. This book contains some of the author's real-life experiences with his hounds.
Cameron also brings an intimate insight into the little-known lives of such rare species as the wolverine and Canada lynx as well as mountain lions, black bears and grizzlies, and he addresses the problem of human/mountain lion confrontations in this all encompassing book that includes a 16 page appendix with his records of weight/age/skull size comparisons of 40 lions taken between 1966 - 1976.
As one of the country's most widely known hound men over the past 50 years, Cameron also gives, in a chapter titled "Trip To The Southwest," a revealing sketch of some of the country's older famous lion hunters at that time such as the legendary Jack Butler, Dale and Clell Lee, Garn Blackburn, Smoke Emett, Willis Butolph, Cap Atwood and others. A foreword by Pete Evans, 82 year old son of the great lion and bear hunter Dub Evans of Slash Ranch hounds fame, rounds out this volume as a "must have" edition that has already become a collector's item.
This classic book is written about a vanishing way of life that only a few in the West have lived and serves as an invaluable reference and historical record for the future, written by the man who pioneered professional lion and bear hunting in the northern Rockies.
Follow along as the author takes you to places where few have ever been. Feel the gripping cold, smell the wood smoke and hear the call of the hounds on the way.
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