I found an old pheasant distribution map

That’s pretty accurate today, actually! The snow’s gone in the southern part of that blackened area, warm up on the way…gonna be in the 30’s to 40 or so several days in a row very soon…Friday-Tuesday…the good old days are now! Just ask Idaho Country Boy! 😃 I’ll report back, with pics, starting Friday…cool map, by the way! 👍
 
If you could blow that up into a poster size and frame in a rough-cut or old weathered wood....then you have something! If you could get that blown-up into a 2x3, I would purchase one...maybe a print shop could do that, really not sure where to take it if that were mine. If your book has more illustrations, there could be other cool ones to do the same with. Great decor for hunting lodges...a for sure get rich slow scheme.
 
Anybody ever read Bob Greene's Once Upon a Town? It's the story of the North Platte, NE Canteen during WW2. My father went through there on his way to the Pacific; he said the book is very accurate and it was an amazing experience to get off a troop train while it made ready for the next leg and see how the town turned out to feed the troops.

"Every day of the year, every day of the war, the Canteen -- staffed and funded entirely by local volunteers -- was open from 5 A.M. until the last troop train of the day pulled away after midnight. Astonishingly, this remote plains community of only twelve thousand people provided welcoming words, friendship, and baskets of food and treats to more than six million GIs by the time the war ended." (from Amazon)

Pheasant figured prominently in the meals the locals prepared.

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The 40s sounds like it was the prime-time for the ring neck pheasant in this country.
I have read about a town in Iowa (Spencer, if I am remembering right), that feed the kids (young men) heading off to combat on trains. Pheasant sandwiches, maybe even pheasant salad sandwiches at the depo, in the 1940s. I think it was an article in the PF Journal several years ago. Anyone else recall read that?
In a more recent PF Jounal, and article showed that in 1943, in Iowa, 11 counties had a "spring" pheasant season, March 15-22, limit of 6 and one could be a hen. This kind of makes sence with the old boy at the nursing home, telling me about the "government" giving away shotgun shells to the farmers to shoot pheasants, as they were eating the newly planted corn kernels.
 
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