Blood runs cold on the black side of the mountain : based on the true story of professional bear hunter Bobby Burris

224 Pages·2013·0.58 MB·English

by  Burris

B R C
lood uns old

on the
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laCk ide of the ountain

B R C
lood uns old

on the
B s M
laCk ide of the ountain
Based on the True Story of Professional Bear Hunter
Bobby Burris
C.f. G
eRwe
Algora Publishing
New York
© 2013 by Algora Publishing.
All Rights Reserved
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No portion of this book (beyond what is permitted by
Sections 107 or 108 of the United States Copyright Act of 1976)
may be reproduced by any process, stored in a retrieval system,
or transmitted in any form, or by any means, without the
express written permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data —
Gerwe, Corinne F.
Blood runs cold on the black side of the mountain / C.F. Gerwe.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-62894-003-9 (soft cover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-62894-004-
6 (hard cover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-62894-005-3 (ebook) 1. Burris, Bobby.
2. Adult children of dysfunctional families—Conduct of life. 3. Criminals—
United States—Biography. 4. Bear hunting—Appalachian Mountains. I. Title.
RC455.4.F3G47 2013
616.85’820092—dc23
[B]
2013027274
Cover photo ‘A lone boy in the Appalachians’ by Jake Metcalf Photography.
Printed in the United States
To my son, Guy Adams

Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in
another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with
him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and
revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years,
and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering
creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many
of them, hundreds of them, and we are to blame for them.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

taBle of Contents
ChapteR one 1
ChapteR two 5
ChapteR thRee 21
ChapteR fouR 33
ChapteR five 47
ChapteR six 53
ChapteR seven 63
ChapteR eiGht 75
ChapteR nine 97
ChapteR ten 105
ChapteR eleven 129
ChapteR twelve 135
ChapteR thiRteen 147
ChapteR fouRteen 163
xi
Blood Runs Cold
ChapteR fifteen 181
ChapteR sixteen 191
ChapteR seventeen 201
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