The swamp was the place to be. It was where all the whitetails came from, retreated to, and felt safe enough to move in daylight in the high-pressure public-land area I was hunting. But as I clanged ...

The first recorded property sale in McCandless involved 400 plots of land for a mare and a saddle. That was the purchase price made by the widow of the town’s first settler, James Duff, who initially ...