Hell, I Was There!

by Elmer Keith

Book Overview

Adventures of a Montana cowboy who gained world fame as a big game hunter. The dean of American gun writers, Elmer Keth tells his own story, cowboy, broncbuster, hunting guide and rancher, Keith... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822730146
• ISBN13: 9780822730149
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Petersen Publishing Company
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 2.88 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of my top 10 reads!

From a time in our country when people were not just sheep and actually had to depend on themselves to get by and not the welfare check!!Elmer Keith inspires all hunters and shooters with The story of his life in a time that we can only dream of and wish for.This book is a must read over and over again!.

Keith never pulled his punches

During his half-century of prolific writing, Keith explored virtually every aspect of the shooting sports and firearms development. His writing style is engagingly coloquial and every bit as concrete as his epistemology.- If Keith wondered how many teeth there were in a Camel's mouth, he would find himself a camel and count 'em. Likewise, before the general availability of the counter-chronograph, Keith knew the performance parameters of his loads. While his contemporaries might simple guess at pressures and velocities, Keith would pack his cartridges off to the White laboratories for the straight scoop. In Hell, I Was There, we learn the inside story of what it was like to be a gun writer in the glory days. We also get a clear picture of life as it was during the early decades of the Century. Keith emerges as a dedicated family man and a responsible citizen of his era. Those who have read Keith's other books and magazine articles will find themselves in familiar territory, nevertheless, the most dedicated Keith reader will find something new in Hell, I Was There.

If you enjoy frontier history and shooting this is the book

I have read this book three or four times now over the years and find that it helps me remember and respect the hard lives lived in the not to distant past. Reading Elmer's life story is like involving yourself in an epic. If you remember the movie "Little Big Man" with Dustin Hoffman from the 1970's you can get a feel for this book. The movie was a life story told by a 100 plus year old man. This book reminds me of that. You wish you had been there but wonder if you really had the strength and courage to endure the hardships as those folks did without complaint.Well worth the read.

A great story teller with a fasinating story to tell!!!

A pleasure to pick up and get lost with the author as he leads you from one exciting location to the next, usually in pursuit of big game. Though this isn't just a book about hunting. Elmer explains what growing up in the early part of this century was like. Everything from dealing with the local grade school bully to crooked bankers who run his family off their farm. Pick up a copy and enjoy.

A hundred lifetimes of experiences bestowed upon one man.

Elmer Keith tells it just as he lived it. From busting Montana broncs, to his development of many of today's popular cartridges, to hunting and guiding for a living, to taking to the game fields of Africa. How a cowboy became the most respected gun writer ever. This book is about much more than guns and hunting, it is about life at it's best. A must read book.