


From his 17-year rap sheet and previous time served, leniency may not be an option. I’m told the perpetrator that burned Brandon’s cabin has been arrested. Last Century, a Texas game warden’s house was torched in retaliation, and the “flamer” was convicted. It’s unthinkable that someone could do that to Brandon’s. Thinking back on countless hunting cabins I’ve stayed in, all were places where memories were made. Yet it stung me deeply to see it in flames. Nothing of mine remained there… except a lot of memories. One October night, I heard a crackling sound and looked across the lake. I lived in a wonderful, decrepit old cabin on Lake Travis until I moved across the cove to better digs. The fatal disease continues to show up in the CWD containment zone and has now spread into a new. Like someone saying, “It was just a dog,” when a beloved pet passes, someone might have said, “it was just an old cabin nobody got hurt.” That’s true. brandon butler Missouri’s designation as a Chronic Wasting Disease state seems to be solidified. Now, they’re gone.įriends and strangers rallied and helped clean up the ashes. In it were irreplaceable relics, –even the chair his father sat in to eat supper. The cabin contained memories of past hunts, of family, of good friends. I’m reminded of a quote from a man who “carried”: “I don’t carry a weapon to do evil I carry one because there is evil in the world.” The man who lit the match destroyed part of Brandon Butler’s life just as if he had stuck a knife in him. Some time later, his cabin was set afire.
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They investigated and gave law enforcement a license plate number. One night, sitting on the porch, he and friends saw headlights in the pasture. Frank Dobie’s cabin on Barton Creek –wonderfully reeking of woodsmoke from long-past fireplace fires. I imagine upon entering, it smelled like Roy Bedichek wrote of J. He bought a small, remote acreage and built a cabin. It’s primarily about the wonderful Missouri hills, woods, streams, and wildlife, but the spirit with which he writes is understood and appreciated by anyone who has – as Johnny Cash once wrote into a song-breathed “air that ain’t been breathed before.” He co-hosts a weekly podcast called “Driftwood Outdoors”.

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Or alone.īutler is a fellow outdoor writer with a wall full of awards. We’re brothers in a bond that comes from treasuring the outdoors and the precious memories of time spent there with family and friends. But we’ve travelled some of the same trails, including Missouri’s Current River. I’ve never met Brandon Butler – at least, not that I recall.
