This story, “The Desperate Search,” appeared in the August 1955 issue of Outdoor Life. “Hey, there!” Hearing the shout, Bill Metsala spun around and saw the frail figure of a man hunkered down on a log by a beaver pond 40 yards away. Bill and 50-odd searchers had been looking for him for the last three days, and now he looked more like an animated scarecrow than a man. His gray cotton pants and blue jean wampus hung in shreds. He was without gl…
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