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About Jim
Casada
Jim Casada, who was born on January 28, 1942, is a son of the Smokies. He grew up in Bryson City, N. C. and cut his sporting teeth hunting and
fishing in and around this small mountain town. He says that “a corner of my
heart” still belongs to the high country.
Education and Professional
Background
B. A. in history, King College,
Bristol, TN (1964); M. A. in British history, Virginia Tech (1967); Ph. D. in
British imperial history, Vanderbilt University (1972). Taught history at
Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC from 1972-1996 before taking early
retirement to work as a full-time freelance writer/photographer. While at
Winthrop rose to the rank of full professor, was recognized as the institution’s
Distinguished Professor (in 1983), and served two terms as chairman of the
graduate faculty. Member and past president of the South Carolina Outdoor Press
Association and Southeastern Outdoor Press Association. Past president of Outdoor Writers
Association of America (OWAA).
Background Writing Experience
Author of more than 3,500 magazine and newspaper
articles and columns on hunting, fishing, firearms, conservation and other
outdoor-related tops. Author of a number of academic books and more than 100
articles in scholarly journals.
Books Written as a Freelancer
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Modern Fly Fishing (1993)
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From Campsite to
Kitchen (1994)
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The Complete Venison Cookbook (with Ann
Casada, 1996)
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Wild
Bounty (with Ann Casada – 2000)
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Innovative Turkey Hunting (2001)
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The Ultimate Venison Cookbook (with Ann
Casada, 2004)
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Backyard Grilling (with Ann Casada, Kate
Fiduccia and Teresa Marrone, 2004)
Books Edited as a Freelancer
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Hunting and Home in the Southern Heartland: The
Best of Archibald Rutledge (1992)
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Tales of Whitetail: Archibald Rutledge’s
Great Deer Hunting Stories (1992)
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Last Casts and Stolen Hunts (with Chuck
Wechsler – 1993)
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America’s Greatest Game Bird: Archibald Rutledge’s Great
Turkey-Hunting Tales (1994)
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The Best of Horatio Bigelow (1994)
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The Lost
Classics of Robert Ruark (1995)
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Bird Dog Days, Wingshooting Ways (1998)
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Africa’s Greatest Hunter: The Lost Writings of Fred Selous
(1999)
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Selous: A
Hunting Legend (2000)
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Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails
(2001)
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The Marksmanship Manual (2004)
Other
Forewords or Introductions for scores of books (mostly reprints of
classics) in The African Collection (Live Oak Press); The Firearms Classics
(Palladium Press); The Premier Collection (Premier Press); The Outdoor
Tennessee Series (University of Tennessee Press); and many others. Lead
researcher (and ghost wrote the latter half) of NRA: An American Legend
(2002).
Seminar speaker on fly fishing and turkey hunting.
Instructor in the University of Tennessee’s Smoky Mountain Field
School offering classes in fly fishing, backpacking and writing on
nature.
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Honors and Awards
Recipient of the J. Hammond Brown Memorial Award
at the 2004 Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) annual
conference, which was held June 2004 in Spokane, Wash.
Won numerous excellence in teaching awards as a university professor.
Honorary Life Member and winner of the Federation of Fly Fishermen’s Arnold
Gingrich Memorial Award (for contributions to the literature of the sport).
Winner of more than 125 regional and national awards for writing and
photography. Among the most recent of these was first place in the Association
for Conservation Information’s Izaak Walton League contest for writing on
outdoor ethics and first place for the outstanding outdoor book of 2001
published by a writer in the South. Recognized by the S. C. Wildlife Federation
as the state’s outstanding conservation communicator. Listed in numerous
biographical directories including Who’s Who in the Southeast.
View most current listing of
awards ...
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Current Activities
Senior Editor and Book Columnist for Sporting Classics
magazine; Editor-at-large for Turkey & Turkey Hunting magazine; Contributing
Editor for Petersen's Hunting, Sporting Clays, Whitetail News, The Hunting Magazine and Tennessee
Valley Outdoors magazines; Outdoor Editor for Smoky Mountain Living; Outdoor
Correspondent for The Herald (Rock Hill, SC) and the Spartanburg Herald-Journal;
Field Editor for Cabela’s Outfitter Journal; Editor of the Outdoor Tennessee
Series (University of Tennessee Press) and the Firearms Classics Series
(Palladium Press).
Regular contributor to regional and national magazines, with credits in
Outdoor
Life, Field & Stream, Sports Afield, American Hunter, American Rifleman, Deer &
Deer Hunting, Turkey Call, Wildlife in North Carolina, Tennessee Wildlife, South
Carolina Wildlife, Crappie, Bassin’, Bassmaster, Grouse Point Almanac, Trout,
The Flyfisher, Pointing Dog Journal, Southern Sporting Journal, Cabela’s
Outfitter Journal, Outdoor World, North American Hunter, North American
Fisherman, Hunting the Country and many others.
Works in Progress
Books on fly fishing in the Great Smokies, Africa’s greatest
hunters, the Eddie Salter story, the life of Archibald Rutledge, anthology of
Archibald Rutledge Christmas stories, and a life of Horace Kephart. Writes
125-150 magazine feature articles and 104 newspaper columns each year.
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Contact Information
- Telephone
- 803-329-4354
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- Facsimile
- 803-329-2420
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- Mailing Address
- 1250 Yorkdale Dr.,
Rock Hill, SC 29730-7638
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- E-mail
- General Info, Sales, Customer Support:
jc@jimcasadaoutdoors.com
Webmaster:
webmaster@jimcasadaoutdoors.com
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