Was the story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" made into a Twilight Zone episode? Just wondering if it's the same story. One of the best TZ episodes I've seen.
-Jim -----Original Message----- From: Preston Singletary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 3:50 PM To: Washington Fly fishers Subject: fishing related books (and others) Ambrose Bierce made quite a reputation in the latter part of the nineteenth century; his "Devil's" Dictionary" sold quite well, as did his fiction, including his Civil War stories. His acerbic outlook earned him the sobriquet "Bitter Bierce". He disappeared in Mexico under mysterious circumstances in 1914, while in his seventies. The movie "The Old Gringo", of a few years ago, starring Gregory Peck, was a fictional account of his demise. His short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" , with its shocking denouement, is probably his best known piece of work and is included in many anthologies. "One of the Missing", another of his short works is a gem of the horrors-of-war genre. On a more cheerful (and more fishing-related) note: my all-time favorite fishing writer (or, as he described himself, " a writer who fishes") was the incomparable Roderick L. Haig-Brown. Lyons Press has recently released a single-volume edition, in paperback, of four of his books, "Fisherman's Spring", Fisherman's Summer", Fisherman's Fall" and "Fisherman's Winter", entitled "The Seasons of a Fisherman". Good reading to all!
