Michael McIntosh

Michael McIntosh is a former Shakespeare professor turned freelance writer. In the course of 30-odd years, he has written 29 books about guns, sporting and wildlife art, natural history and travel including three volumes of Shotguns and Shooting, Best Guns, A.H. Fox, Wild Things and Traveler's Tales. His articles, too many to count, have been published in every sporting magazine in the United States and Britain. He has been a Sporting Classics columnist for the past 25 years and also serves as shooting editor for Shooting Sportsman. His first novel The Dogmen, published in 2009, is about tracking down and stopping dogfighting. McIntosh was born and raised in Ottumwa, Iowa, and graduated from Ottumwa High School. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Iowa Wesleyan College, a master's from the University of Iowa, and studied at Princeton University and UCLA. Those left to cherish his memory are his wife, Connie Cross of Pella; his step-children: Aaron Cross of St. Cloud, Minnesota, Jason Cross of St. Cloud, Minnesota and Bethany Wyatt of Missouri. "...Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill." "Requiem" by Robert Louis Stevenson ^[1]

About

Michael McIntosh, one of America’s foremost shotgun writers The Best Shotguns Ever Made in America Michael’s book the Best Shotguns Ever Made in America is essentially a collection of articles he had written in the 1970s while he was a staff writer and editor with the Missouri conservation department magazine, Missouri Conservationist . Michael was the shotgun columnist for Sporting Classics, Michael McIntosh was born in the Midwest and grew up in Iowa and Missouri, and lived on a farm near Camdenton, Missouri at one point. He had a great admiration for Robert Ruark . In 1991, he published an anthology called Robert Ruark’s Africa, a collection of magazine articles from the 1950s. In Traverse City, Michigan he taught at Bryan Bilinski’s shooting school. He attended the 1991 Safari Club International convention. It was one of the very few he ever attended. Michael was married many times, divorced almost as many, and moved around frequently. By 2004, he was living in the Black Hills of South Dakota he was having serious health difficulties and had actually checked into a clinic, ostensibly for any number of reasons. Michael McIntosh loved whisky, He then moved back to Iowa By that time, he was having health problems of all kinds. His knees were bad – the result of some genetic ailment that afflicted his ancestors; his eyes were so bad at times he could not write; he resigned from several of his regular magazine columns, sometimes formally, sometimes by simply not submitting any more material. He was Countrysport’s (later Down East’s) best-selling author.^[2]

Books/Stories/Written Works

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• A Breed Apart: A Tribute to the Hunting Dogs That Own Our Souls, (Volume 2)
  • Authors:
    • John BarsnessAuthor
    • Thomas Bevier
    • Paul Carson
    • Chris Dorsey
    • Jim Fergus
    • Gene Hill
    • John Holt
    • Michael McIntosh
    • Dave Meisner
    • Datus Proper
    • Jerome B. Robinson
    • Diane Vasey
    • Stuart Williams
    • Doug Truax (Editor)
    • Countrysport Press (September 1995)

• Best guns (Down East Books, Revised edition, January 1, 1989)
• The Best Shotguns Ever Made in America: (Seven Vintage Doubles to Shoot and to Treasure)

Macmillan Publishers Co (June 1981)

• Big-Bore Rifle: (The Book of Fine Magazine and Double Rifles, .375-.700 Calibers) Countrysport Press (June 1990)
• The Gun Review Book (Down East Books January 1, 1997)
• In the Sporting Tradition: (The Art of Herb Booth) (Joe and Betty Moore Texas Art Series)

Texas A&M University Press; 1st edition (September 1, 1993)

• Shotguns and Shooting (Down East Books) (June 21, 1995)
• More Shotguns and Shooting (Down East Books, 1st edition, December 25, 1998)
• Shotguns and Shooting 3 (Down East Books, October 14, 2008)
• Robert Abbett (Masters of the Wild) (Briar Patch Press, Incorporated, July 1989)
• Robert Ruark's Africa (Down East Books, June 21, 1995)
• Shotgun Technicana (Down East Books, January 1, 2002)
• The Best of Holland & Holland, England's Premier Gunmaker (Michael McIntosh, Author), (Jan Roosenburg, Author)

Safari Press ; 2 edition (November 15, 2004)

• The Dogmen, Xlibris (November 24, 2009)
• Traveler's Tales: The Wanderings of a Bird Hunter and Sometime Fly Fisherman (Silver Quill Press; 1st Edition, November 1997)
• Wild Things (Down East Books, 1st edition, April 24, 1996)
• Wildfowl of North America, Brown & Bigelow (November 1, 1999)

References

1. ^ Ottumwa Courier, “Michael McIntosh, Ottumwa”, ‘’Ottumwa Courier’’, 8/18/2010
2. ^ Terry Wieland, “Remembering Michael”, ‘’Shotgun Life: The Best in Wing & Clay Shooting’’, 9/24/2010
3. ^ [www.amazon.com]