Calvin R. Stone

Calvin Stone had just married in 1931 and was honeymooning in Miami with Mary, his wife. He fell in love with the area and they decided to stay. Stone was invited by a friend, who had lived here all his life, to go deer hunting in the Everglades in 1934. And so began a forty-year trek in the wilderness. In his book, he talks about carrying an injured friend who weighed almost as much as his biggest deer, lost New York tourists, stuck swamp buggies, turkey hunting and Indians. The stories last for nearly four decades and take you into the heart of the raw Everglades country as told from a first-hand experience.… (meer)