I met Elmer Keith a very long time ago at an NRA board meeting in Washington, and spoke with him for a while. I have all his books, one of his rifles, and since I have the American Rifleman from its beginning in 1923 I have read a lot of his articles as well. My frank opinion is that the man had a genius IQ. If he had received a first class academic education he could have been anything and done anything he wanted to, in any field of endeavor that interested him, and he would have been famous not just to us but to the broad American public.