Podcast
Park Predators
The host explained that the author had speculated in the book about why a game officer might have left his firearms behind, noting the oddity of the officer not carrying a gun during his disappearance. The discussion focused on possible explanations for this detail rather than endorsing the work, and the book was mentioned mainly as a source of the speculation.
Episode: The Rifleman
The host explained that Ralph Young speculated in his book My Lost Wilderness that the fact Hosea was not carrying a firearm was odd and offered possible explanations for why the game officer might have left his guns behind.
I imagine one reason some folks thought this was because of the firearms that had been abandoned in Hosea's drifting boat. Author Ralph Young speculated in his book about Hosea's disappearance titled My Lost Wilderness, that the game officer not having a firearm on his person, if in fact he had gotten out of his boat on his own, was very odd.