Kicking Up Trouble: Upland Bird Hunting in the West

by John Holt, Christopher Smith (Illustrator)

John's adventure takes you from the mountains to the prairies in search of sharptails, sage grouse, huns, chukars, turkeys, pheasants, and ruffed, spruce, and blue grouse. Along the way, you'll be treated to Holt's wide-ranging comments on the environment (he loves it), political correctness (he hates it), and the life he's chosen, one of the country and comrades, sunsets and saloons, and always the wild things of Montana. Steve Bodio, writing in Sports Afield, named this book among the... "top five hunting books of the year".

187 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1994

About the author

Writer living in Livingston, Montana with my wife, photographer Ginny. Have 14 published books including Hunted: A Novel, Coyote Nowhere - In Search of America's Last Frontier, and Arctic Aurora - Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories. AK Press will release my next book, Yellowstone Drift - Float the Past in Real Time in February 2009. This one is about canoeing the Yellowstone from below the northern boundary of Yellowstone Park to the river's confluence with the Missouri at Ft. Buford, North Dakota or about 525 miles. Have contributed stories to publications that include Men's Journal, Gray's Sporting Journal, Art of Angling Journal, The Denver Post, Briarpatch, E - The Environmental Magazine, California Literary Review, Outside, Counterpunch and Fly Rod & Reel. Camping, canoeing, upland bird hunting, cooking, reading, photography, fly fishing, hiking keep him occupied

Reviews

[Craig Schlossin · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you like Bird hunting.

[Andrew Wayment · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, but a little irreverent at times. Let's just say it's not a kid's book. But it has good writing with good stories about bird hunting in the west. Just watch out for the chapter on hunting spruce grouse as it's a little raunchy, but that is John Holt!