Books by Mert Cowley

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Mert Cowley, 611 22 3/4 Street, Chetek, WI 54728 USA

published 1990

The Ultimate Stand

$12.00
Includes postage & handling. Wisconsin residents add 60 cents sales tax.

The Ultimate Stand contains the first twenty years of Mert's work.  This 161-page book contains his black ink sketches and illustrations that depict deer camps, wildlife, and the fictitious characters that are so vividly portrayed in this collection of deer hunting mishaps and misfortunes.  MORE  >>

published 1993

In Camps of Orange

$15.00
Includes postage & handling. Wisconsin residents add 75 cents sales tax.

In Camps of Orange is Mert's second book on the subject of deer hunting.  This 245-page book contains pictures and stories of several of Wisconsin's famous old buck hunters, including Jim Jordan, Homer Pearson, and Walt Kittleson.  MORE  >>

 

published 1996

A Hundred Hunts Ago Seasons of the Past

$21.00
Includes tax and shipping.

In a little over three hundred years, Wisconsin and its border states witnessed change of such magnitude that the region could never again be as it once was.  The impacts of logging, forest fires, and homesteading have had an everlasting effect on hunting, fishing, and trapping activities as we know them today.  MORE  >>

published 2001

Dawn of the Deer Camp

$18.00
includes tax and shipping.

According to Dr. Rob Wegner, whitetail historian and former editor of Deer & Deer Hunting magazine, Dawn of the Deer Camp may prove to be the first historical fiction of deer hunting ever written. Mert took over a hundred old photographs and wrote his hunting stories based on them. The research was extensive; the opening days are correct, the guns, the clothing, and the methods used to hunt are period perfect. MORE >>

 

published 2002

There's Daylight in the Swamps

$23.00
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Few books are currently available that describe the logging of the old Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan pinery. Even fewer books contain the number and variety of photos depicting the life of a lumberjack that this book does. MORE >>
 

published 2003
 

Beyond the Shadows of the Pine

$28.00
Includes tax and shipping.

The book begins by taking the reader into the logging camps of the pinery, through a year in the life of a logger, and ends with the river drive. As camp breaks in the spring, some of the men head back to their farms to begin chores again. Others head back to the city and the comforts that city folks enjoyed; a visit to the barber, the dentist, the doctor, the general stores, and the post office. Readers will also pay a visit to several country schools. MORE >>
 

Coming in 2005

A Palace in the Popples

$28.00
Includes tax and shipping.

Due to the large number of requests to have a sequel to his first historical fiction, Dawn of the Deer Camp, Mert is currently working on what will more than likely be his last hunting book. A Palace in the Popples will follow the hunting, fishing, and trapping experiences of four generations of the McCracken family. MORE >>
 

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