Opening Shots and Parting Lines Shotguns Reviewed & endorsed by Jim

Reviewed & endorsed by Jim Casada of Sporting Classics who said "I have frequently bemoaned the fact that sporting tellers of tales in yesteryear—like Havilah Babcock

With styles ranging from realism to impressionism

and she looked after Hampton and oversaw operations there for many years while Rutledge was sort of trapped with his second wife in Spartanburg (she did not like Hampton and its lack of amenities)

this expanded collection of 100 paintings depicts the triumphs and travails of the Corps of Discovery's two-and-a-half-year trek through unknown territory to the Pacific Ocean and back between 1804 and 1806

Illustrated copy of the limited 1st edition of 2500 unnumbered copies

Opening Shots and Parting Lines Shotguns Reviewed & endorsed by JimCharley Dickey, Opening Shots and Parting Lines. Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1983. Hardbound in slipcase. Xii, 208 pages. Illustrated. Signed copy #211 of an edition of 100, with bonded leather and ribbon marker. Book and slipcase very good. $40.