This is the story of California Fish and Game Warden Gene Mercer. Known as "Ol' Sabertooth," he became a legend among the tough game wardens of his day. His remarkable career began in 1928 and spanned the market hunting years of the forties and fifties and continued into the early sixties.
Do you remember those movies where the Revenuers are chasing the bootleggers down the road in their Model T? Switch the Gene Mercer for the revenuers and a signification number of outlaws in the California wilderness areas for the bootleggers, and you have this book. There is significant violence throughout this book. Guns and various other implements kill birds and animals. These real life tales of game warden Mercer, begin in the roaring twenties and ends in the early 1960s. The cat and mouse tales will delight and dismay at the same time.