"[1] Buck's marriage to Amy Leslie, drama critic for the Chicago Daily News, brought him in contact with many people of the stage.

But the open spaces called him, and with $3,500 he won in a poker game he embarked on a career trademarked by the slogan "Bring 'em back alive."

His first expedition took him to Brazil, where he bought from native trappers an assortment of jungle birds.

He says the experience left him with a bad case of claustrophobia, and that he cannot bear the thought of a plane's small cabin with a locked door.

Springfield Republican p6 Mar 31 1941 "Frank Buck's lusty life story is full of thrilling adventure."