The author of BACKLASH II refuses to allow the use of the words
"fanciful" or "improbable" in the description of the 40 stories
contained in this book. He insists every one of them is an entirely
truthful account.
Shame on him. Anyone who reads BACKLASH II will immediately conclude the
stories are nothing more than a pack of lies concocted in some hunting
or fishing camp.
Nevertheless, the perceptive reader will also conclude the author is a
fair and honest outdoorsman, harboring no discourteous, hateful or
violent thoughts - if you don't count those about politicians,
pseudo-environmentalists, hunters who shoot at out-of-range ducks,
lawyers, wives, woodcock, gun controllers, editors and people who post
land around trout streams.
About the Author:
Galen Winter lived in Latin America, traveling extensively while
negotiating and managing contracts with Latin governments and companies.
He returned to the United States as a corporation attorney in Milwaukee
and in Chicago. Later, he opened a law office in northern Wisconsin
where, he writes, "a man can associate with dogs and shotguns without
arousing too much suspicion." As a Consultant in International Affairs,
he retained his international associations and has left his footprints
from Sweden to Taiwan.
Winter had contributed hundreds of columns and articles to regional and
national outdoor sports magazines. He compiled a fish and game cookbook,
has written six volumes of shorts stories and published two novels.
Winter also finds time to engage in his passion for hunting and
fishing - preoccupations that have taken him from islands north of
Canada's Arctic Circle to the Amazon Basin, southern Argentina and the
waters off Ecuador, Costa Rica, Cuba and many other places where fish
and game occur. He holds degrees in Political Science, Law and a Masters
in International Business Administration.
