Download or read book Ain't No Such Animal written by Dablemont and published by . This book was released on 1998-04-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ain't No Such Animal By: Larry Dablemont - Illustrations By: Tom Goldsmith Ain't No Such Animal is a collection of 20 magazine articles written by Larry Dablemont for national magazines such as Outdoor Life, Field and Stream, Petersen's Hunting, Gun Dog, and others over the last 30 years. Many of the stories are from the author's boyhood on the Big Piney River in the Missouri Ozarks. One of the most popular is the story of "Old Paint," the author's wooden johnboat used when he was a boypursuing adventures on the Big Piney River, it was originally written for "Outdoor Life" and won an award as the Best Outdoor Story in 1972. The book gets it's name from the story of a legendary mink and the trapping experiences of Dablemont's father in the 1930's. Some of the other stories include "Old Fighter" about a huge smallmouth taken on a trotline by the author and his grandfather. "Fargo" is the humorous account of four boys and an old pointer bird dog they found. Stories included in this book concern humorous and nostalgic accounts of turkey hunting, deer hunting, coon hunting, fishing, shooting matches, and lessons learned by a younster growing up in the Ozarks of the 1960's.