Author of big game book to sign books at Howards

Author of big game book to sign books at Howards

Sept. 22, 2001

SUSAN CAMPBELL RENEAU, a former Colorado Springs author who now lives in Montana, shows off a copy her new book, Colorado’s Biggest Bucks and Bulls. This second-edition book has many names listed of some area residents. She is scheduled to be at a book signing on Monday evening at Howard’s Sporting Goods in Cortez.

STAFF REPORT

Former Colorado Springs author and big game hunter Susan Campbell Reneau, who now lives in Montana, is coming to Cortez for a signing party at Howard’s Sporting Goods. She will be here from 7-8:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24.

She will also make an appearance in Durango from 7:30-9 p.m. Oct. 4 at the Animas Museum. Slides will be shown. Reneau will make many other appearances throughout the state promoting her new book, Colorado’s Biggest Bucks and Bulls and other Great Colorado Big Game, Second Edition.

The book features 293 Colorado men, women, and teen-agers from all parts of the state and 111 out-of-state hunters. Colorado’s Biggest Bucks and Bulls includes 800 photographs and 275 true stories about six world’s records and 13 state record big game (all from Colorado). The book pinpoints the exact locations of Colorado’s biggest mule deer, whitetail deer, elk, Shiras moose, bighorn sheep, desert bighorn sheep, Rocky Mountain goats, pronghorn antelope, cougar, and black bear taken by Colorado hunters using modern firearms, bow and arrow, and muzzleoader firearms from 1850 to present. The 400-page hardcover book is packed with big game and historical photographs featuring the vastness and beauty of Colorado. Other chapters include details about how to recognize big game trophy animals in the field, how to care for trophies in the field, and places to go in Colorado that may be of special interest to big game hunters. This edition of the book contains 56 never-before-published historical photographs including one of President Theodore Roosevelt in Glenwood Springs.

A number of local hunters are mentioned in the book. Those who have their names in the book from Cortez include Jay N. Cruzan, Olen J. Hicks, Howard’s Sporting Goods Store, Rick Kirks, Lloyd Pyle, Travis Shippey, and Michael R. Treinen. Several Dolores residents are mentioned including Terry Amrine, Tom Beck (Colorado Division of Wildlife), Tom Broderick, Joe W. Brummer, Andrea Holley, Bryon D. Long, and Renay Neely. Some Mancos residents also got their name in the book including Jerry L. DeFrenchi, Mary Ann Ott, and Woody Ott.

Durango has Gary Brown of Discount Liquors, Richard Ellis of Gardenswartz Sporting Goods, Pennington Camera Co., Robert McDaniel, Animas Museum, and Alan Lee and Bud Vandenberg. Pagosa Springs has listed Leonard J. Ashcraft, Sam B. Ray, and Henry Trujillo Jr.

A portion of the money collected from the sale of Blue Mountain Publishing’s Colorado’s Biggest Bucks and Bulls benefits the Colorado Wildlife Hertiage Foundation, based in Denver at the Colorado Division of Wildlife headquarters on Broadway. The foundation funds up to $50,000 per year for purchase of land to benefit all types of wildlife, finances Watchable Wildlife publications, funds environmental research throughout the state, finances environmental education programs for children and adults, as well as funding some other conservation projects.

Reneau was raised in Colorado Springs. She is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley with a major in elementary education and speech communication. She recently moved to Montana with her husband and three children.

The book sells for $32.95 and is available at most Colorado sporting goods stores, and bookstores.