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Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places,

and the people who dedicate their lives to conserving both.

I want to give a big shout out to Onyx Hunt for their support of this podcast.

I'm your host, Lake Pickle.

And I'm just going to come right out and tell you.

This episode is special.

And it's a lot different for many of the episodes we've done in the past.

From the stories you will hear to the man who we will focus on whose influence on America simply cannot be overstated,

to the celebration of hunting and the outdoors as a connective tissue that transcends even the most distant of ideologies.

My gracious, friends, do we ever have some ground to cover?

Let's dive into it.

He first came here, as Judge Pickering has told you to make a deer hunting,

insofar as I know, he'd never killed a deer.

He certainly didn't act like it.

And over here where I'll take you, if you'd like to go,

that morning, right after daylight, I heard a shot.

I said, I believe I'll wait a few minutes before I go up there.

And I did.

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