The Alaska Bear Hunt That Tested My Entire Family

The Alaska Bear Hunt That Tested My Entire Family

This story, “A Family Hunt for Alaska Brownies,” originally ran almost 80 years ago in the July 1947 issue. While it is a classic example of family hunt for the time, it also shows how hunting ethics have changed since it was published. A jinx is a nasty thing for a man to have dogging him when he’s out for big game. In 1941, while hunting on Admiralty and Chichagof Islands in southern Alaska, I knocked down a small brown bear which got away, an…