https://www.theglobeandmail.com/art...ny-cash-met-the-moose-whisperer-in-backwoods/
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Hunting guide Heman Whalen and Johnny Cash at Victoria Lake, NL., on Oct. 11, 1961.
"Taking up a position among some fallen trees, Johnny Cash raised his Mannlicher rifle to his shoulder and bolted a round into the chamber. The guide with binoculars said the animal some 200 metres away was a young cow – a female moose. Was Cash okay with that? “You can’t eat horns,” replied the singer-hunter."
"The Folsom Prison Blues singer never shot a man in Reno, but he did bag a moose in Newfoundland."
"It happened in the first days of October, 1961. Because the moose-tracking jaunt to a logging camp in Canada’s youngest province was underwritten by Field & Stream magazine, vivid professional photographs documenting the trip were made public. Two months ago, the masters of dozens of more pictures resurfaced. They represent the earliest known photographs taken of Cash and Saul Holiff, his manager from 1960 to 1973."
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Heman Whalen, seen here, known as the Newfoundland 'Moose Whisperer,' was Johnny Cash's hunting guide for a moose hunting trip in 1961.
"Whalen was a wildlife management officer with the Department of Mines, Agriculture and Resources. Known as Newfoundland’s “moose whisperer,” he was Cash’s exclusive guide. They were both 29, each former air force men."
“He was the guy next door,” Whalen said of Cash, speaking to The Globe and Mail this week from St. John’s. “He was no freeloader, I tell you that. You get what you work for, he had that attitude.”
Hunting guide Heman Whalen and Johnny Cash at Victoria Lake, NL., on Oct. 11, 1961.
"Taking up a position among some fallen trees, Johnny Cash raised his Mannlicher rifle to his shoulder and bolted a round into the chamber. The guide with binoculars said the animal some 200 metres away was a young cow – a female moose. Was Cash okay with that? “You can’t eat horns,” replied the singer-hunter."
"The Folsom Prison Blues singer never shot a man in Reno, but he did bag a moose in Newfoundland."
"It happened in the first days of October, 1961. Because the moose-tracking jaunt to a logging camp in Canada’s youngest province was underwritten by Field & Stream magazine, vivid professional photographs documenting the trip were made public. Two months ago, the masters of dozens of more pictures resurfaced. They represent the earliest known photographs taken of Cash and Saul Holiff, his manager from 1960 to 1973."
Heman Whalen, seen here, known as the Newfoundland 'Moose Whisperer,' was Johnny Cash's hunting guide for a moose hunting trip in 1961.
"Whalen was a wildlife management officer with the Department of Mines, Agriculture and Resources. Known as Newfoundland’s “moose whisperer,” he was Cash’s exclusive guide. They were both 29, each former air force men."
“He was the guy next door,” Whalen said of Cash, speaking to The Globe and Mail this week from St. John’s. “He was no freeloader, I tell you that. You get what you work for, he had that attitude.”
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