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    • Boerstler, Syd

    • Boerstler, Syd

    • Boerstler

    • Spring 1920 - Began season with him February 1922 (letter) - Syd's income (1922) $3250 March 13, 1922 (letter) - LK Sent Syd back today. Been quite an expense. Almost gave away the B2 January 14, 1929 (letter) - Syd had prostitutes living with...
    • Zane Grey
    • "Zane Grey's Captain Tells His Story" III - Boerstler

    • "Zane Grey's Captain Tells His Story" III - Boerstler

    • Fishing; broadbill; Boerstler; Avalon;

    • ""He was never able to take another broadbill after I left him, though he brought Francis over from New Zealand to skipper the 'Gladiator.' I took only one more broadbill just to see if I could still do it without him. I hung it on the pier at...
    • Zane Grey
    • ""ZGCTHS"" - Boerstler

    • ""ZGCTHS"" - Boerstler

    • Controversies; Fishing; Sportsmanship; Ecology; Boerstler;

    • "But he wasn't so easily mallified where a principle was concerned and fought tenaciously for anything he believed in. And through his greatest appeal to fisherman - readers probably was the new horizons he discovered, the information he gave and...
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey's C.T.H.S. - Boerstler

    • Zane Grey's C.T.H.S. - Boerstler

    • Extremes; Temperance; swearing; Boerstler;

    • "Doc didn't drink, smoke, nor chew tobacco; but when riled, or things didn't go right, he could blow his top and swear like a mule skinner…That as typical of Doc. No matter how upset he might be, just jet him into a good fish and the world was a...
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey's C.T.H. Story - Boerstler

    • Zane Grey's C.T.H. Story - Boerstler

    • Fishing; books; writing; westerns; Boerstler;

    • "We'd cruise along day after day…and Doc in his wicket chair with his writing-board across his lap and his pencil flying…Odly [sic] enough, he never made any real money with his fishing books…Perhaps he was too far ahead of his time, his...
    • Zane Grey
    • "Zane Grey's Captain Tells His Story" - Boerstler

    • "Zane Grey's Captain Tells His Story" - Boerstler

    • Fishing; Love for; endurance; 102 days in a row; Boerstler;

    • "Doc didn't complain. He never did. He loved fishing, made a scientific study of fish and had more patience than any fisherman I ever knew. I think he loved it more than any man alive-unless it was myself. We probably set an all-time recorded...
    • Zane Grey
    • ZGCTH Story - Boerstler

    • ZGCTH Story - Boerstler

    • Sportsman; Oarsman; Marksman; Boerstler;

    • "He was a splendid oarsman and a dead shot with a 30-06 rifle, though he had no use for 'scatterguns', and said any man who needed one to get game shouldn't hunt. I was pretty good too, with either rifle 'or' shotgun, and have competed four times...
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey's C.T.H. Story - Boerstler

    • Zane Grey's C.T.H. Story - Boerstler

    • Contoversy; Riders of the Purple Sage; Mormons;

    • "And he wasn’t afraid of the devil himself. His RPS was almost and Uncle Tom's Cabin in its attack on the prevalent Mormon custom of plural wives; but their hatred and threats never kept him from returning to their country whenever he chose."
    • Zane Grey
    • "Zane Grey's Captain Tells His Story" - Boerstler

    • "Zane Grey's Captain Tells His Story" - Boerstler

    • Fishing; excitement; endurance; prowess;

    • "I picked up the one on Doc's hook and looked to see if he was ready. As usual he was shaking 'till he could scarcely hold the rod. Once the fish was hooked Doc was a master, with terrific endurance, but I've never known anyone to get the...
    • Zane Grey
    • "Zane Grey's Captain Tells His Story" - Boerstler

    • "Zane Grey's Captain Tells His Story" - Boerstler

    • Fishing; reasons for;

    • "He was a fisherman par excellence. Show me another man with the perseverance to fish eighty-three consecutive days without taking a worthwhile gamefish as he did in the Southern Ocean. His constant 'reason' for our fishing trip was to get material...
    • Zane Grey
    • "Zane Grey's Captain Tells His Story" - Boerstler

    • "Zane Grey's Captain Tells His Story" - Boerstler

    • Perseverance; stick to it; broadbill fishing; Boertler; Zane Grey vs. R.C.; temperament; stick-to-itiveness;

    • "But Doc's almost five-year hunt or broadbill intrigued me plenty. I'd never had a chance to fish for them, but I'd listened to the other skippers and hand some ideas of my own. Trouble is that it takes money and time to superb tackle to take...
    • Zane Grey

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