Born in Glenwood Springs and raised outside Eagle, I grew up on the
western slope of Colorado, where guns were from the beginning just a
part of life. Before I can remember my father shot with a .22 rifle at
the packrats who would invade the cabin up Salt Creek. Sometimes he did
this to amuse guests. In an early memory of my own, there’s a fatally
wounded mule deer buck in the field of sagebrush below the cabin, and my
father goes down there with a rifle to put the creature out of its
misery. Not that guns were a large part of my family’s life, by local
standards. Other boys went elk hunting with their fathers at a time of
year when my family and I merely put on bright orange clothing to go
hiking in the woods. All I ever did with a gun myself was shoot at some
paper targets my dad had tacked to a tree, or, later, pick off ground
squirrels venturing from their burrows up Eby Creek, so that the horses
wouldn’t step in the holes the squirrels had dug and break a leg.
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