This is the story of California Fish and Game Warden Gene Mercer. Known as "Ol' Sabertooth," he became a legend among the tough game wardens of his day. His remarkable career began in 1928 and spanned the market hunting years of the forties and fifties and continued into the early sixties.

Sabertooth: The Rip Roaring Adventures of a Legendary Game Warden

Science & Math

Hodges, Terry

Technology

Paladin Pr

This collection of 26 short stories is considered by many to be the best of its kind. Readers come away with a vivid and colorful picture of what the lives and adventures of California's game wardens are really like. All of these true stories take place in California, which has more natural diversity in wildlife habitat and species than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast areas of wilderness.

Tough Customers : True Adventures of Game Wardens and the Outlaws They Pursue

T & C Books

SWORN TO PROTECT is a collection of 26 award winning short stories concerning the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. These stories illustrate the wide variety of wildlife-related problems wardens face in California, which has a greater diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast expanses of wilderness.

Sworn to Protect

A collection of award-winning, true, game warden adventure stories.

Predators

Warden Force: Night Rider and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 1-13

A collection of 13 award winning short stories concerning the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. These stories illustrate the wide variety of wildlife-related problems wardens face in California, which has a greater diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast expanses of wilderness.Book 1 contains the first 13 episodes:* The Midnight Ride of Bonnie and Clyde: Wardens tangle with a murderous mother-and-son poaching team. A true game warden adventure story.* Night Rider: A California warden pursues highly dangerous night-poachers of wild pigs. A true game warden adventure story* Decisions: A true game warden adventure story. Wardens off the coast of Southern California’s Catalina Island risk their lives to save the crew of a sinking commercial squid-fishing boat.* A Second Second Chance: A California game warden ambushes outlaw catfish fishermen using baby swallows for bait. A true game warden adventure story.* The Collectors: California wardens take on a nest of Nazi-worshiping, weapons-collecting, deer poaching outlaws. A true game warden adventure story* Nothin’ Personal: True game warden adventure stories. California wardens track down a thief who steals the head and antlers of another hunter’s buck* Bottom Feeders: California wardens go after a band of White-trash, sturgeon-poaching, hillbillies with attitudes. A true game warden adventures story.* An Outing with Team Taylor: A California game warden and his family, on a short vacation, team up to capture antelope, bear and steelhead poachers. A true game warden adventure story.* Rookie: A rookie California game warden gets his first taste of his hazardous new career… A true game warden adventure story.* Grand Trickery: A California warden employs a magnificent bluff to catch outlaws night-poaching deer. A true game warden adventure story* Tough Luck on the Little Sur: California wardens pursue gaunch-hook steelhead poachers. A true game warden adventure story* Serial Poacher: Wardens pursue a disturbing and dangerous lone-wolf deer poacher. A true game warden adventure story.* The Vision: A boy’s fondest dream comes true. A true game warden adventure storyIt surprises many who read my stories to learn of the great diversity of challenges faced by California's Fish and Game wardens. This is probably due to the general misconception of many as to the true nature of this state, the perception that California is mainly urban when in fact the reverse is true. In truth, California has more natural diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast expanses of wilderness.Readers are also surprised to discover how hazardous my profession can be. Out of necessity, wardens work alone much of the time, often at night, with absolutely no hope for timely backup should things go wrong. And things go wrong, somewhere in the state, with distressing regularity. The dangers of this work are best illustrated by rather grim FBI statistics which clearly show that game wardens and conservation officers in this country are at greater risk of being assaulted or killed in the line of duty than are most sheriff's deputies and police officers.

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Wise Media Group

Warden Force Season 2Warden Force is a collection of award-winning short stories currently spanning seven volumes. Each story reveals the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. These stories illustrate the wide variety of wildlife-related problems wardens face in California, which has a greater diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast expanses of wilderness.Book 2 - Grim Witness: Episodes 14 - 26A Matter of Little Choice: Wardens hunt down an exceptionally large and highly dangerous wounded mountain lion. A true game warden adventure story.The Meaning of Pursuit: A true game warden adventure story. Fleeing felons and a wild, white-knuckle ride for a reserve game warden.Gambler’s Luck: A big-rig load of alfalfa holds a surprise hidden in a chamber among the bales.The Departure of Bully’s Luck: A cruel bully gets what he deserves. A true game warden adventure storyPollard on the Rock: An alert clerk at a one-hour photo shop sends wardens in search of outlaw houndsmen.Fools and Small Victories: A warden targets a particularly destructive brand of violator. A true game warden adventure story.Renegades: A true game warden adventure story. Wardens target a destructive pair of elk poachers.Bear Crazy: A warden investigates the poaching of an exceptionally huge bear, killed with a broad head arrow at a garbage dumpA Message Delivered: A true game warden adventure. Wardens hunt down antler thieves.Sting: Wardens close in in a band of abalone poachers, a true game warden adventure story.Cave Man: California wardens tangle with a wild-looking, hairy, commercial crab fisherman from Oregon. A true game warden adventure story.Skinny Bob: California wardens go undercover to capture commercial reptile rustlers, a true game warden adventure story.Grim Witness: True game warden adventure story. Dangerous pot-growing poachers use pipe bombs to kill king salmon.

Warden Force: Grim Witness and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 14-26

Warden Force Season 3 Warden Force is a collection of award-winning short stories currently spanning seven volumes. Each story reveals the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. These stories illustrate the wide variety of wildlife-related problems wardens face in California, which has a greater diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast expanses of wilderness. Book 3 - Delta Ghosts: Episodes 27 - 38 Delta Ghosts - A team of wardens ambush outlaw gillnetters at Grizzly Bay, in the same Delta waters patrolled 80 years earlier by Fish Patrol Warden and famous writer, Taylor London. Smooth Operator - Wardens stalk a cagy and arrogant abalone-poaching commercial sea urchin diver. Time Bomb - A dangerous and mentally unstable deer poacher proves highly troubling for pursuing wardens. Cheaters - An inexperienced warden consults an old pro of his profession to capture a pair of super-wary striped bass snaggers. Tiger’s Revenge - A cocky and confident salmon poacher makes the mistake of “pulling the tail of the tiger,” that is, taunting a local game warden. A Calculated Risk - Despite a comedy of errors, wardens close in on highly destructive pig poachers. Killer John - Future serial killer? Wardens deal with a scary deer poacher and born killer. New Talent - A new warden astounds a mentor with his almost super-human sensory skills. Slow Learners - A once major league pitcher proves to be a highly interesting adversary for wardens. Davie Crockett and the Bush Baby - A Hollywood stunt man and elk poacher tangles with border wardens. Then Came Speedy - A Peruvian sheepherder and a small sheepdog pay dearly to save their sheep from marauding bears in high meadows of the Sierra Nevada range. Lethal Intent - Would-be assassins are thwarted by a fearless warden who puts his life on the line for the intended victims.

Warden Force: Delta Ghosts and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 27-38 (Volume 3)

Nature & Ecology

Book 4 - Cold, Cold Hearts: Episodes 39 - 49. Trash Can Joe - Wardens pursue an infamous, outlaw hunting-guide who uses donuts to illegally bait bears. Meet ¿The Black Robinhood.¿ Callous Hearts - A rogue band of meth-cooking deer poachers meets with misfortune. Rascal¿s Road to Justice - ¿The world¿s greatest duck caller,¿ as a renowned waterfowl violator bills himself, crows that he¿s too smart to be caught. His education to the contrary soon follows. True Remorse - One of the coldest of the cold, cold hearts, pays a heavy price for extreme cruelty to a trapped bear. Turkeys - The wardens meet a hardened criminal whose hobbies are turkey hunting and home-invasion robberies. A Weekend with ¿Starsky and Hutch.¿ - A swashbuckling pair of wardens cram a fourth-story, roof-to-roof foot chase in old San Francisco and heroic rescues from burning buildings into a single, memorable weekend. The Natural - A young woman proves that she was born to be a Fish and Game warden. Dirty Harry and Ape Island - A warden thinks his way out of a jam in this story that features a good-humored Highway Patrol sergeant and an ill-humored monkey. Lucky Breaks - A warden demonstrates his substantial tracking skills to put away an outlaw houndsman who traffics in bear gallbladders. Lobster Jake - An infamous lobster pirate teams with ¿The Muppet,¿ a character straight out of a nightmare. Cold, Cold Hearts - A California warden, at great risk to himself, flies to Alaska to help state troopers there deal with a team of highly dangerous, cruel and destructive grizzly poachers.

Warden Force: Cold, Cold Hearts and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 39 - 49 (Volume 4)

Warden Force: Delta Ambush and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 50-62

Delta Ambush Warden Force Season 5 A collection of 13 award winning short stories concerning the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. These stories illustrate the wide variety of wildlife-related problems wardens face in California, which has a greater diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast expanses of wilderness. The fifth season contains 13 more exciting adventures: Uncatchable Chick Feathers - A clever deer-poaching archer, widely considered to be too smart to catch, meets an old-time game warden who disagrees. Incident at Killer Cove - Armed killers on the run tangle with game wardens on the prowl. Sooner or Later - An outlaw falconer outsmarts a new and inexperienced game warden. A year later, he’s not so lucky. Otter Killers and Uncommon Luck - Wardens pursue sea-otter-killing commercial abalone divers. Leo’s Demise - One man dies before wardens deal with an African lion, a grown pet gone rogue, in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Tough Customers - A game warden and a hostage-taking armed robber nearly destroy a drugstore. Bug Pirates - Trap-raiding lobster thieves meet with misfortune. Setliners - Wardens target long-line catfish poachers. A Matter of Preference - Wardens attempting to ambush season-jumping commercial lobster fishermen get a big surprise. Delta Ambush - Night-prowling, canoe-borne wardens stalk a wily and destructive Delta outlaw. Rake Man - A well disguised warden outsmarts lawless abalone pickers. The Honest to God Truth - An honest mistake and a white-knuckle, midnight vehicle tail through Long Beach yields a surprise and an important arrest. Raid of the Stockton Airborne - Did they or didn’t they? Wardens from the sky? A day for mass-killing duck poachers does not end well.

Warden Force: Ordeal at Skull Canyon and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 63-75

A collection of 13 award winning short stories concerning the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. These stories illustrate the wide variety of wildlife-related problems wardens face in California, which has a greater diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast expanses of wilderness.
The sixth season contains 13 more exciting adventures:
Scum of the Delta - A lone warden faces three armed and dangerous outlaws at night on a lonely Delta island.
Night of the Beach Walkers - Wardens set a trap for renegade abalone pickers on an Island off the California coast.
The High Cost of Greed - A massive overlimit of snow geese equals bad news for greedy poachers.
The Best Medicine - A young boy provides a cure for racial tension.
Ordeal at Skull Canyon - A dark night and a mistake on an offshore island nearly proves fatal for a young warden.
Hoffman’s Lucky Shot - A lucky break spares the evil life of a dangerous poacher.
Moseley’s Reward - A well timed tip sets wardens on the trail of outlaw mountain lion trappers.
Herpie and the Snake Lady - Wardens raid an absolute house of horrors and target lawless reptile dealers.
Road Hunter - A road-hunting pheasant poacher leads a clever warden to pull off the most spectacular arrest of his career.
Harold’s Toughest Race - A tough, marathon-running warden amazes everyone by running down an escaping would-be rapist.
Fatal Flaw - One dark mountain night, a lone warden, at great personal risk, bluffs a lawless band of brush-cutters to arrest a deer poacher and a wanted felon.
Tuffy’s Sweet Moment - An epic foot chase ends in near death for a fleeing violator.
An Ending of Sorts - A warden-turned-writer, one winter’s evening, reflects on his career and that of his long-dead mentor

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