Perseverance in Mobile Bay

"I'm going to cut your thumbs and big toes off right before I toss you to a bull alligator in this Mobile Bay Swamp." So said the psychopath to Sam Logan from Columbus, Ohio, just before Sam arm-wrestled him unmercifully. Sam had paid his ten-thousand-dollar fee for this deer hunt. Twenty industrialists had hoped many African hunters would make this hunt. None did, only Sam.

Sam's efforts were aided by a long-forgotten Black lady, Josephine Walker. She had no electricity, cooked over an open...