Sports
Afield es una revista que acaba de llegar a mi domicilio,
fresquita, desde 1958. Sí, no es mentira. Esta edición que tengo enfrente tiene
más de 50 años. Al final para saber Six Shooters y en vocabulario gunslinger. Sports Afield,
señoras y señores…
Sports
Afield fue fundada en 1887 por Claude King, como una
revista de caza y pesca, y es la publicación más vieja sobre la vida al aire
libre todavía en circulación en norte América. El primer número, de enero de
1888, tenía solo ocho páginas. Estaba impreso en papel de diario y fue
publicado en Denver, Colorado. La suscripción era de un dólar con cincuenta al
año, con copias individuales a 15 centavos. Algunos escritores se
unieron a lo largo de los años, tales como Zane
Grey, Jimmy Robinson, Gordon
MacQuarrie, Archibald Rutledge, Erle
Stanley Gardner, Townsend Whelen, Jack Denton Scott, Vance Bourjaily, John
Madson y Russell Annabel. Sports Afield
fue una de las primeras promotoras del cuidado de los recursos naturales, llevando
a público a tomar consciencia del cuidado del medio ambiente.
… Another was mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner, who
became known for his articles defending gun owners' and hunters’ rights…
And the TV bullets fly every which away
Circumstances
forced me a while back to watch TV for nearly a year. I had to stay indoors for
much of the time, and when I tired of reading, I turned on the TV set. I am not
sorry, because it was a revolution in the value of TV as an educational means. I
learned more in that period about guns and shooting, hunting, fishing and
outdoor living than in all the previous years spent taking part in such
activities. Where I had once been selective in the programs I watched, I became
omnivorous and sat through juvenile westerns, “adult” westerns and what I call
senile westerns (they should have been dead long ago). I saw detective tales
involving shooting, and other crime pictures wherein men lived and died by the
gun. I watched intrepid men staking their lives against wild beasts, savage
natives, and their own contemptuous familiarity with firearms as deadly
weapons.
January 1940 |
Thus I learned,
much to my amazement, such “facts” as these:
- That the West
was won with a Colt .45 revolver called a Six
Shooter, probably because it could fire as many as 14 or 15 shots (by
actual count) without reloading.
- That the
self-contained, all-metallic cartridge was in widespread use decades before it
was invented.
- That a good gunslinger,
shooting from the hip could server a lynching rope at 50 feet, crease a man´s
skull or pink him in the arm at will – and that the good guys seldom shot to
kill the bad guys; but, at the risk of their own lives, merely wounded them so
they could get a fair and square trial.
- That all
Indians, with the exception of noble Cochise,
were lowdown, treacherous, cruel snakes in the cactus, unless they were
employed as scouts by the U. S. Cavalry, in which case they were treated like good
trailing hounds. All Indians were, however, incredibly good archers… (Article by
Bill Wolf, Sports Afield, September 1958, 35 cents.)
Para saber
Six Shooter: Nearly all
early revolvers and many modern ones have six chambers in the cylinder, giving
rise to the slang term six-shooter;
however, revolvers with a number of different chambers have been made, with
most modern revolvers having 5 or 6 chambers.
Cochise: Cochise (1805 – 1874) was
leader of the Chihuicahui local group of the Chokonen and principal chief of
the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache. A key war leader during the Apache
Wars, he led an uprising against the American government which began in 1861,
and persisted until a peace treaty in 1872.
Vocabulario
Contemptuous: showing deep hatred or disapproval.
Gunslinger: someone (such as a character in a story, movie, or
television show) who is known for being able to handle and shoot a gun
extremely well.
De la web
Shane Mahoney: Is Hunting
Relevant Today?, take part in the debate of this conservationist in
answering the question: is it logical to keep hunting as we did in the past?
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Sports Afield, the new web for the old magazine.
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