Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President wrote this amusing book. This brief book was written a few years after Cleveland's second term as President and published the year before his death, in 1907. Grover Cleveland was an avid angler and hunter, and this book explores everything from how to tell a proper fish story to hunting ethics.

"Fishing and Shooting Sketches" from Grover Cleveland. 22nd and 24th President of the United States (1837-1908).

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