Hunter Kills Elk, Finds Out It Has Rare ‘Nutmeg Liver,’ Decides To Eat Meat Anyway

 

Hunter Kills Elk, Finds Out It Has Rare ‘Nutmeg Liver,’ Decides To Eat Meat Anyway

Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Hunting Camp

Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Hunting Camp: October in Wyoming is hunting season. Not that I get out as much as other guys do, but I'm no stranger to beating the brush for big game...

UW research values Wyoming’s elk, mule deer and pronghorn at a stunning $6B

 

UW research values Wyoming’s elk, mule deer and pronghorn at a stunning $6B

Wyoming Rancher Charged With Trying To Steal Elk Head From Helicopter Hunters

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, January 19, 1901. The Army in Yellowstone.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, January 19, 1901. Hazing at West Point.: United States Military Academy Superintendent Colonel Albert L. Mills and four cadets presented a statement signed by all of the members of ...

Saturday, January 19, 1901. Hazing at West Point.

It was a Saturday.  Harpers looked back at the day, on its cover, when the Army enforced the law in Yellowstone National Park.

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, January 14, 1946. Wartime and Post War fo...

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, January 14, 1946. Wartime and Post War fo...:   I"m putting up this interesting Out Our Way cartoon from this day in 1946 as it refers to something we've discussed here before, ...

Monday, January 14, 1946. Wartime and Post War foodstuffs.

 

I"m putting up this interesting Out Our Way cartoon from this day in 1946 as it refers to something we've discussed here before, and its a bit surprising.

What we've discussed here before is hunting during World War Two.

Here's where we looked at it earlier:

Lex Anteinternet: So you're living in Wyoming (or the West in genera...So what about World War Two?

Labels: 1940s, Food, hunting, Rationing, World War Two

I've always thought this was one of the more interesting threads on this blog, and it's one of the many ones I post and wonder why there's never any comments on it.  But that's common for blogs.  Usually, they don't get posts.

Anyhow, this cartoon by J. R. Williams sort of confirms what I'd suspected.  Some people supplemented their table fare during the war by hunting.

Williams was, as we've discussed before, a Canadian cartoonist who moved to the U.S. with his family at age 15, locating in Detroit.  He soon dropped out of school and became an apprentice machinist, providing topics for his cartoons which frequently depicted machine shops.  He drifted after that, something not uncommon in that era, and worked as a cowboy in the West, as well as serving a three year stint on the U.S. Army as a cavalryman.  All of that experience likewise reflected itself in his cartoons.  Family life, in spite of his being a bit short (again, not all that uncommon for the time) also featured frequently.  

He became a professional cartoonist in 1922 and remained one until his death in 1957 at age 69.  He'd used the proceeds of his cartoons to buy a ranch in Arizona, before relocating later on to Pasadena, California.  His cartoons carried on to some extent after his death in the hands of other artists.

Anyhow, one of the things about his cartoons is that depict fairly accurate slices of life, and this running gag from 1945-46 no doubt did.  The father has taken an elk and a deer, and the family is keeping it in the ice box.  The part that surprises me is that I really like venison, and these cartoons suggest that this venison was bad, which may be explained in an earlier cartoon I'm not familiar with.

Eighteen nations entered into an Agreement on Reparation from Germany.

The USSR ratified its August 16, 1945 treat with Poland stealing the eastern portions of the country, and giving parts of Prussia to Poland.

"Southern Resorts Fashions" were on the cover of Life.

Last edition:

Sunday, January 13, 1946. The relentless advance of malevolent technology.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Cartoons, Chinese Civil War, Japan, Marshall, Newspapers, Smoking, technology, Technology is ruining everything, tobacco

National Guard pilot admits to landing Black Hawk helicopter to pick up elk antlers The Montana soldier entered a no-contest plea to trespassing charges for landing a UH-60 helicopter on a remote ranch to collect elk antlers.

What's the fun of having access to a helicopter if you can't use it?

National Guard pilot admits to landing Black Hawk helicopter to pick up elk antlers

The Montana soldier entered a no-contest plea to trespassing charges for landing a UH-60 helicopter on a remote ranch to collect elk antlers.

Cow Elk Stomps Mountain Lion In Desperate Bid To Save Calf

 

Cow Elk Stomps Mountain Lion In Desperate Bid To Save Calf

Late-Season Cow Elk Hunts Fill Freezers But Test Hunters’ Grit In Wyoming

 

Late-Season Cow Elk Hunts Fill Freezers But Test Hunters’ Grit In Wyoming

‘Judas elk’ to help target Jackson Hole ‘suburban elk,’ easing pressure on Yellowstone migrants

‘Judas elk’ to help target Jackson Hole ‘suburban elk,’ easing pressure on Yellowstone migrants: Research reveals that animals that summer on ranchland and in residential subdivisions near town pile up on the National Elk Refuge's southern end — a trait that will help wildlife managers steer hunters toward the problematic cohort.

Feds provide peek at National Elk Refuge plan: Keep feeding bison, cut off elk at 7% CWD

Feds provide peek at National Elk Refuge plan: Keep feeding bison, cut off elk at 7% CWD: New analysis reflects discussions with pro-feeding Wyoming, and the particulars will likely resemble the proposal expected soon from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife.

Cookin' with Congress Should you soak your elk steaks in 7-Up? The answer is obvious but here we go -

 Truly, what the crap?

I liked Gov. Herschler, but this sounds vile.  Americans have some weird association with "let's soak our food in pop" thing going on.  I can't tell you how many times I've heard the "let's soad the ham in Coca Cola" line.

No, lets not. Get out of the kitchen.

Cookin' with Congress

Should you soak your elk steaks in 7-Up? The answer is obvious but here we go -