an online organization devoted to placing books on the internet for all to read. I won't dwell further because if you're still reading, I'll lose you soon. There are plenty of references to it in the internet search engines.
     Well, one thing led to another and, and here's what I found in connection to Hunting with the Bow and Arrow...
     The book was written in 1923 by a man called Saxton Pope. He is the very same Pope of the Pope and Young Club, fame which I'm sure you have heard of. Again, there is plenty to read about this fine organization on the net.
     Pope was born in 1875 in Texas and spent his youth around army forts. Growing up, he often played Robin Hood with his white and Indian friends, using homemade bows, much as we did when we were kids.
     In 1899 he graduated from college with honors with a degree in medicine and became a doctor like his father.
      In 1911, Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, was discovered and became an instant celebrity. Naked, and starving, primitive and wild, he wandered into white society in Oroville, California and was transferred to San Francisco to the University of California's Museum of Anthropology where in 1912, his path crossed Doctor Pope. Ishi is quite famous and yet again, there is much written about him on the Internet, though not so much about his experience with Pope. Hence, this article.
     Pope and Ishi became friends, and Pope's interest in archery and bow hunting was rekindled. Ishi died in 1916 from tuberculosis, not having any immunity to white man's diseases, but before he left, he taught Pope the Indian way of hunting with the bow.
     Pope was an early advocate of bow hunting, which was largely unknown at the time, and wrote several books, some of which are still in print. Hunting With the Bow and Arrow has passed out of copyright and is available here for your enjoyment.
     Just as Ishi was an anthropological wonder in his day, so is Hunting With the Bow and Arrow in our times. It's a window to the days where it all started, and in its time was as important as Fred Bear was to his. In a way, all modern bow hunters are direct heirs to Pope's adventures.
     The work is easily read on your computer. Read and savor each word, or skim along to the parts that interests you most. You might even be inspired to use some of the methods described which were used before the climbing tree stand was ever thought of.
     So from Ishi to Pope to the modern teachers of hunting ethics, practices, and wisdom, we present Hunting With the Bow and Arrow...