When Whip-poor-wills Call

We recently had some family come visit, if you wern't here you probably heard about it. It was alot of fun catching up with everyone. Missy gave me a book called, When Whiporwills call, I started thumbing thru it that evening and before you knew it I was done. Probably not something everyone would enjoy, but I thought it was great. It is sort of a collection of stories experienced by a carreer Game Warden in West Va. He beagan in the early 60s and went thru the 70s untill he took another job as wildlife enforcement officer in tidewater Md. He had a few tales from that job also, but nothing as hair raising as his days in WV. Some were really funny like inadvertantly locking himself in a bear culvert trap in sub zero temps in the middle of nowhere. Or his attempt to help some fellow citizens on hog butcherin day. Some were downright scary like attempting to check licence on a bunch of drunk rednecks in the middle of the night, by himself. I have always thought the life and times of a Game warden would make a great book so I was surprised to see one, and thrilled to have enjoyed it so much. There is another guy out there who was a game warden and uses his experience as sort of a background for some low grade fiction. Savage Run is the one that pops to mind. Nothing compared to this slice of life.