Something neat fell out of an old Jim Corbett book (Man-Eaters of Kumaon)

Interesting tidbits... would be akin to a small miracle if you could chase down info... probably the best place to start would be establishing a timeline... contact the transportation authority and try to date the ticket... that should at least get you in the ballpark.
 
Very interesting! In the picture, I would wager the structure he standing under is a ships gravity lifeboat davit (he's standing under the forward track, hand on the steam driven recovery winch, and above him you can make out the keel of the lifeboat).
Good hunting on this one!
 
Roalco said:
Very interesting! In the picture, I would wager the structure he standing under is a ships gravity lifeboat davit (he's standing under the forward track, hand on the steam driven recovery winch, and above him you can make out the keel of the lifeboat).
Good hunting on this one!
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Good point, the curved, white painted tracks looked suspiciously nautical and the natural light made me suspect a ship.

the spank said:
All kidding aside that is a pretty cool find.
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Indeed, and only thing about calling in the Scooby gang that puts me off is it would officially become a ghost story.
 
Cool find! My only problem with Jim Corbett's book is that I keep buying copies of them and people keep borrowing them and never returning them.
Dave​
 
Very cool. I find old photo albums at flea markets and auctions. I always wonder about the stories behind all the photos. I picked up a great framed photo of four men in 1940's dress with a very respectable bull moose. It deserved to be on somebody's wall...
 
Ardent said:
You have to wonder, and reflect on all those stories that died, just as your own will one day. Oddly comforting, a little sad, and very intriguing.
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I think much like that. I usually try to tell somebody about an interesting happening from years ago, hoping to keep the story alive. I retell the stories my Dad told me, so I suspect he thought the same. Any pictures I have seen of his father seem to indicate that he was also a story teller. I do know that my old Grandpa lived near the Sakimay First Nation and loved to have the passersby from there stop in for a meal and a good visit. My Dad told me that he remembered as a kid (Dad was born in 1900) having the old people come to visit, and that some of them couldn't speak English.
 
One thing about a paperless e-society, we're going to leave very little physical evidence of ourselves for succeeding generations to read and look at, unless they're energy beings living in a cybercloud somewhere. Which strikes me as a little unsafe.
 
corbetts books where always undervalued, fantastic read of a different era, and classic guns. managed to snag a first edition for $25.00, gotta sneaking suspicion he was a bit of a ladies man that old boy.. Good find bud something your son can find in 20 years or so.. Enjoy your shift
 
Indeed, we leave little trace today down the road, and enjoyed the note kjohn different era to be sure, sadly lost in many ways.

JHC big fan of Corbett too, I like his style, was the era of the gentleman adventurer, good point on the goodies for my boys to find and ponder one day... Thanks re: the shift, neck deep in lovely 1 mile and less, zero ceiling, 30kt gusts spring BC fun.
 
Corbett was one of the greatest hunters that ever lived. Quite an amazing man, and his solo stalking and slaying of man-killing big cats was all done during his vacations from his real job as an engineer: it was what he did to relax! And by all accounts, it was a great service for the human population of India; you might have thought they'd hire him full time instead of waiting for a holiday to come around.

One book of his that I haven't managed to collect is "My India." Still looking, but most used bookstores are gone now, and the ones that do exist are on the whole too PC to carry hunting stuff. Never mind that Corbett was a conservationist before his time and did more to preserve big cats than any two NGOs.

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I was lucky as all his books were in the school library when I went to school in Okotoks Alberta so I at least got to read them. Was about the only A I ever got for a book report also.
 
Ardent said:
You have to wonder, and reflect on all those stories that died, just as your own will one day. Oddly comforting, a little sad, and very intriguing.
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Jeff Cooper opined that our stories mattered, and should be written down, regardless of how well or poorly written. Perhaps one reason we gun owners and hunters are loosing the PC fight is that too few of our stories survive the passage of time.
 
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