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David Mattson
- Aug 29, 2020
The Sturgis and Standing Rock Protests
Sacred Bear Butte, six miles north of Sturgis, South Dakota by David Mattson I grew up in the Black Hills of western South Dakota on a small ranch roughly 30 miles away from the town of Sturgis and between 100 and 200 miles away from the sprawling Pine Ridge and Cheyenne River Indian Reservations. David Taylor, who homesteaded our ranch, created a sinuous inholding within the newly created Black Hills Forest Reserve, laid out to capture as much bottomland pasture as possible
David Mattson
- Aug 21, 2020
To Hunt or Not to Hunt Grizzlies? That May or May Not Be the Question
Ernest Hemingway (right) with grizzly bear killed in Timber Creek drainage of Wyoming Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum by David Mattson The hunting of big game for trophies is a symbolically and emotionally super-charged issue—perhaps not to the extent of the contemporary debate over abortion or Second Century disputes over the nature of the Holy Trinity, but close. Then add to this fraught baseline the prospect of hunting an iconic s
