Bush Pilots: Legends of the Old and Bold

by Bob Cary, Jack Hautala

This is a collection of stories, capturing the fierce spirit of bush pilots and their adventures, wrecks, humor and rescues.

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2003

Reviews

[Trebor · Rating 4 out of 5]

The subject matter of this book concerns mainly the bush pilot stories of the upper Minnesota lake areas bordering and including Canada. A wild and primitive area teaming with lakes and vast wooded forests, ideal for sport hunting and fishing. A simple and tough people with homespun humor and a huge love of adventure and the outdoors. A topic that still thrills me to this day with the tales of flying in and out of precarious dangerous predicaments. Some made it and some did not, but their stories are both humorous or a lesson on careless human error or bad luck. Great reading for a sports loving or airplane enthusiast.

[Daryl Greaser · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved the stories about the good ole days of float plane flying before the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness including crazy pilots steering with their knees so they could hold their rifle and shoot wolves with both hands; kids that would swim under the plane and hold onto the bars as long as they could on a take-off run. My version came with a CD- what this lacks in literary worth or makes up for with anecdotes