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About Gordon MacQuarrie
- Gordon MacQuarrie (July 3, 1900 – November 10, 1956) was an American writer and journalist.
- Born in Superior, Wisconsin, he is best known for his short stories involving hunting and fishing, and for his semi-fictional organization known as The Old Duck Hunters' Association, Inc.(ODHA, Inc.) He died unexpectedly in Milwaukee, Wisconsin of a heart attack.The Old Duck Hunters stories were originally published in various outdoor related periodicals of the early 20th Century.
- They were posthumously gathered into book form in three anthologies entitled: Stories of the Old Duck Hunters & Other Drivel, More Stories of the Old Duck Hunters, and Last Stories of the Old Duck Hunters.
- The first of these was originally published in 1967 by Stackpole Publishing, New York.
- Currently, all three volumes are available from Willow Creek Press, Minocqua, Wisconsin, both in printed and audio (abridged) form.
- Three subsequent volumes have also been released by Willow Creek Press. Following his August, 1924 graduation from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a bachelor's degree in Journalism, MacQuarrie joined the Superior Evening Telegram as a cub reporter.
- In 1925 he became City Editor of the Telegram and was promoted to Managing Editor in 1927.
- He held that position until April, 1936 when he accepted a position with the Milwaukee Journal and moved to Milwaukee with wife, Helen Marjorie (Peck) MacQuarrie (1901-1952), and their only child, daughter Sally (1929-1994.) In September, 1954, MacQuarrie married fellow Journal reporter Ellen Gibson. MacQuarrie invented the Old Duck Hunters Association as a literary vehicle and used his real-life father-in-law, Allan Peck, as the model for the President of the association.
- The stories were often upbeat and humorous with MacQuarrie frequently serving as the butt of the joke.
- MacQuarrie is credited with becoming the first full-time, professional outdoor writer in America when he became the outdoor editor of the Milwaukee Journal on April 19, 1936.
- Also in 1936, MacQuarrie developed a relationship with influential conservationist, Aldo Leopold.
- Their friendship lasted until Leopold's death in 1948; however, MacQuarrie remained a staunch supporter of Leopold's Land Ethic, and wrote frequently about Leopold's work until his own death in 1956.In June, 2003 a biography of MacQuarrie was released by the Wisconsin State Historical Society, entitled Gordon MacQuarrie: The Story of an Old Duck Hunter, ISBN 0-87020-343-6, written by Keith Crowley. The Gordon MacQuarrie Memorial Wetlands are named for Gordon MacQuarrie (46.561162,-92.27640).
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