Chapter 04
Essays
Field notes written the long way.
The written record — 21 pieces across 7 publications: histories of the pointer and the American Field, essays on race and belonging in the uplands, training notes, and tributes to the dogmen who came before. Every link opens at the publication that ran it.
Project Upland · 10
- Georgia-Florida Shooting Dog Handlers Club — Ambition to Tradition 2020 · cover feature of the Summer 2020 print issue
Outdoor Life · 3
- Granddaddy’s Gun: A Restored Family Shotgun Gets a New Life Training Fine Bird Dogs 2020 · archived copy
Orvis News · 4
- A Good Season Passed 2019
Benchmade Journal · 1
TRCP · 1
Tall Timbers · 1
- All Hail the Handler 2022
Gun Dog Magazine · 1
- Red Hills Reminiscences — · in print
In the press
Profiles and features about Durrell, for the curious.
- Filson Journal — “Honoring Your Call” (2025)
- Star Tribune — “Words, Art and Action” (2023)
- Orvis News — “Guide Profiles: Durrell Smith” (2023)
- Garden & Gun — “Ten Champions of Conservation” (2022)
- Tall Timbers — “Durrell Smith Is on a Mission” (2022)
- The Bitter Southerner — “A Guiding Light in the Great Outdoors” (2021)
- TRCP — “In the Arena: Durrell Smith” (2021)
- Beretta USA — “Upland Hunting and Dog Training Insights”