Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1887 — Author and Sportsman. [ARTICLE]

Author and Sportsman.

That Ned Buntline was a marvel of literary industry, his voluminous writings amply prove, and that his labor was well directed is evident from the fact that his income from this source was larger than any of his American contemporaries in the line of serial writing. His time was pretty equally divided—“all summer in the field, ail winter in the study. ” In a letter to the writer, he once remarked that he had no love for the cities, but was happiest in the camp, with the music of birds and breeze and rustling branches and flowing waters around him. His hunting experiences embrace all kinds of game, hnd his rambles with gun and rod extended to every quarter of tho United States. He preferred buffalo, elk and antelope hunting to all other field sports, and in angling cared for cnly salmon and trout fishing. His library, sanctum and armory, he remarked, were one. Gun-cases, sabers, fly- rods, pistols, etc., could be seen in every corner, and around his bookcases were many relics of the field and stream. The picturesque sanctum of tho novelist and sportsman is carefully kept in order by loving hands, and the casual visitor at the Eagle’s Nest may behold it in much the same condition as when the gifted Ned Buntline lived. Will Wildwood, in Turf, Field and Farm.