Ernest Hemingway is a mythic writer and alpha male. This title includes stories of his guns and rifles that tell us as much about him as a lifelong, expert hunter and shooter and as a man.
Ernest Hemingway's friend A.E. Hotchner once described a "yellowed four-by-five picture of Ernest," shown him by Hemingway, "aged five or six, holding a small rifle. Written on the back in his mother's hand was the notation, 'Ernest was taught to shoot by Pa when 21/2 and when...