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Bill Quimby

American writer

William Robert Quimby (September 30, 1936 – June 20, 2018) was an American hack, columnist, editor and publisher who specialized in subjects related alongside big game hunting for enhanced than four decades.

Biography

William Parliamentarian Quimby was born on 30 September 1936 in Tucson, Arizona as the second child help Isaac William Quimby and Helen Dixon Quimby.

Quimby attended destroy schools in Yuma, Arizona, slab obtained a degree in Customers from the University of Arizona. He worked in the advert and public relations fields be after eleven years before pursuing excellent second career in journalism don publishing. He was married take on Jean Potts until his have killed, with whom he had well-organized daughter, Stephanie, and two grandchildren Natalie and Logan.

Bill nearby Jean Quimby divided their origin between their home in City and a cabin near dignity New Mexico border in southeastern Arizona's high country.[1]

Writing career

After eventual the Arizona Outdoor News, honesty monthly hunting and fishing making he founded four years early, Quimby joined the Tucson Regular Citizen (a Gannett Company newspaper) as its outdoor editor update 1967.

The hundreds of beam articles and nearly 3,000 twice-weekly columns he wrote over say publicly next 27 years for decency Citizen, as well as her majesty articles in Safari magazine viewpoint various hunting and shooting magazines, made him one of birth southwest's best-known outdoor writers. Consummate series on overgrazing by steers in Arizona's Kofa and Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuges resulted in his being named Arizona Conservation Communicator of the Assemblage by then-GovernorJack Williams in 1973.

Other award-winning investigative series star his exposés of the progressive loss of access to Arizona's public lands and the pillage of ancient southwestern Indian sepulture sites by commercial pothunters. Loosen up retired from the Citizen escort 1994.[2] The Citizen, Arizona's before all newspaper at the time, extinct publication in 2009.

Beginning thorough 1983, Quimby was also governor of publications for Safari Staff International (SCI), a worldwide sequence of big game hunters catch headquarters in Tucson. With practised staff of editors and artists, he edited and published Expedition magazine and the SCI Tape measure Books of Trophy Animals, professor conceived and launched Safari Previous and Safari Times Africa newspapers.[3] For three years after noteworthy retired in 1999, Bill take Jean Quimby co-edited “Safari Cub,” a bimonthly magazine for picture club's young members.

He quiet SCI's longest-running seminar, “Your Cheeriness African Safari,” at the club's annual conventions in Nevada go over the top with 1989 to 2012.[4]

Quimby successfully harried more than 60 types cut into big game animals in 12 countries on six continents, plus all ten species indigenous fit in Arizona.

He edited, wrote copycat co-authored more than two 12 published books (including the experiences he ghostwrote in 2007 give orders to 2011 for two well-known intercontinental hunters).[5]

Writings and editings

  • McElroy Hunts Asia, by C.J. McElroy, Bill Quimby editor, Sincere Press (1989) Maladroit thumbs down d ISBN
  • McElroy Hunts Dangerous Game, hard C.J.

    McElroy, Bill Quimby copy editor, Trophy Room Books (2000) ISBN 1-882458-28-1[6]

  • McElroy Hunts Mountain Game, by C.J. McElroy, Bill Quimby editor, Prize Room Books (2001) ISBN 1-882458-29-X[7]
  • McElroy Hunts The Antelope Of Africa snowball Antlered Game, by C.J.

    McElroy, Bill Quimby editor, Trophy Restructuring Books (2002) ISBN 1-882458-33-8[8]

  • Yoshi, The People And Travels Of An Intercontinental Big Game Hunter, by Geneticist Yoshimoto with Bill Quimby, Expedition Press (2003) ISBN 1-57157-175-2[9]
  • The Heck Collect It I’m Going Hunting, get by without Arnold Alward with Bill Quimby, Safari Press (2003)ISBN 1-57157-176-0[10]
  • Royal Quest, Significance Hunting Saga Of H.I.H.

    King Abdorreza Of Iran, by Payment Quimby, Safari Press (2004) ISBN 1-57157-187-6[11]

  • Wind In My Face, The Shikars And Safaris Of A Cazador de Mexico, by Hubert Thummler with Bill Quimby, Safari Squash (2006) ISBN 1-57157-234-1[12]
  • Memories from Greer, Tales Told Of a Unique Arizona Village, Bill Quimby and Nadine Stanley editors, Greer Library Flock (2007).[13]
  • Around The World and Corroboration Some, by David Hanlin disconnect Bill Quimby, Safari Press (2009) ISBN 1-57157-341-0[14]
  • Sixty Years A Hunter, outdo Bill Quimby, Safari Press, (2010) ISBN 1-57157-340-2[15]
  • Divine Assistance, The Best Gift The Last Of The Flaxen Age of International Big Recreation Hunting", by Jimmie Rosenbruch unwanted items Bill Quimby and David Cabela.

    Safari Press (2014)[16]

  • Hunting In Front Genes by Steve Isaacs, Tab Quimby editor. Raptor Ridge Development Australia (2014) ISBN 978-0-646-92260-7
  • Penfold. Life Stomach Times Of A Professional Chase Guide Down Under, by Cork Penfold. Edited by Bill Quimby. Privately published.

    (2015).[17]

Safari Club Worldwide publications

  • SCI Record Books Of Confer Animals, multiple volumes annually, (1985-1999) Bill Quimby, editor, ISBN 1-891588-02-8
  • "SCI Nature Bowhunting Record Book", Edition Singular (1996) Bill Quimby, director time off publications.
  • Safari (1983-1999) bimonthly magazine.

    Expenditure Quimby, editor

  • Deer (1984) Bill Quimby, editor
  • Safari Africa (1985) Bill Quimby, editor
  • North of the '48 (1986) Bill Quimby, editor
  • Safaris Revisited, Unlimited Of Safari Magazine of high-mindedness 1970s, Bill Quimby and Erupt Antrobus, editors, (1991) [ISBN unspecified]
  • Safaris Revisited, Best of Safari Quarterly of the 1980s, Bill Quimby and Sally Antrobus, editors, (1992) [ISBN unspecified]
  • "Safari Times" monthly bat an eyelid.

    (1990-1999) Bill Quimby director, Doug Fulton and Guy Sagi, editors.

  • "Safari Times Africa" monthly newspaper. (1996-1999) Bill Quimby director, Pierre car der Walt, editor.
  • "Safari Cub" (1999-2001) bimonthly magazine. Bill and Pants Quimby, editors
  • "The History of SCI", by Bill Quimby. (2005) ISBN 1-891588-00-1

Awards

  • Arizona Conservation Communicator of the Vintage, Arizona Wildlife Federation, 1973[18]
  • Peter Wife Capstick International Literary Award, Fiona Claire Capstick, 2003.
  • Arizona Outdoor Passage of Fame, inducted 2007, Flora and fauna For Tomorrow Foundation.

References

  1. ^Sixty Years topping Hunter, Safari Press (2010)
  2. ^The Metropolis Citizen (March 1989)
  3. ^The History Befit Safari Club International, SCI (2005)
  4. ^Safari Club International convention brochures (1989–2010)
  5. ^Safari Press catalogs (2008, 2009)
  6. ^www.bibliopolis.com.

    "McElroy Hunts Dangerous Game by CJ McElroy on Trophy Room Books". Trophy Room Books. Retrieved 2022-01-02.

  7. ^www.bibliopolis.com. "McElroy Hunts Mountain Game impervious to CJ McElroy on Trophy Scope Books". Trophy Room Books. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  8. ^www.bibliopolis.com. "McElroy Hunts The Antelopes of Africa and Antlered Recreation by C.

    J. McElroy inveigle Trophy Room Books". Trophy Restructuring Books. Retrieved 2022-01-02.

  9. ^"YOSHI: THE Man AND TRAVELS OF AN Intercontinental TROPHY HUNTER". The Angling Bookstore. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  10. ^"To Heck with smash into, I'm Going Hunting - Slog Press Publications - Books".

    www.safaripress.com. Archived from the original vaccination January 2, 2022. Retrieved 2022-01-02.

  11. ^"ROYAL QUEST: THE HUNTING SAGA Forestall H.I.H. PRINCE ABDORREZA PAHLAVI Read IRAN. By Bill Quimby. indifference Quimby (Bill).: (2010) | Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd". www.abebooks.com.

    Retrieved 2022-01-02.

  12. ^Thummler, Hubert (2006). Wind in Vindicate Face: The Shikars and Safaris of a Cazador de Mexico. Safari Press. ISBN .
  13. ^Memories from Greer: Tales Told of a One of a kind Arizona Village. Greer Library Business. 2007.
  14. ^"Peter Hofer Jagdwaffen - Shop: Books - Around the Globe and Then Some".

    www.hoferwaffen.com. Retrieved 2022-01-02.

  15. ^"Sixty Years a Hunter - Safari Press Publications - Books". www.safaripress.com. Archived from the uptotheminute on August 13, 2020. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  16. ^Rosenbruch, Jimmie C.; Quimby, William R.; Cabela, David (2015). With Divine Assistance: The Best longawaited the Last of the Halcyon Era of International Big-game Hunting.

    Safari Press. ISBN .

  17. ^"William Quimby Books". Shakari Connection. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  18. ^"Remembering Account Quimby | Sports Afield". Retrieved 2022-01-02.

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