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MARCH 5, 2010 ARCHIVED STORIES:
BLACKFOOT, Idaho (BP)--North American Mission Board missionary Jim Ballard -- all 243 lbs. of him -- lay sprawled in agonizing pain on a snow-covered dirt trail high in the mountains of the Salmon National Forest in eastern Idaho.
Four of his ribs and a vertebra were fractured, and his sternum was cracked. His lung punctured, Ballard was spitting up pink, foamy blood, which dotted his full salt-and-pepper beard.
Ballard prayed to God and thought of Myrtle, his new wife, who was back at their RV campsite some 10 miles away. The nearest main road was a mile or two away. Panic was creeping in like the big black crow that perched only 10 feet away, cawing and waiting for what it thought would be its inevitable Ballard "buffet."
"You're not getting my eyeballs just yet," Ballard yelled at the crow while whipping out his .45/.410 revolver and two boxes of shells. At least neither the crows nor the wolves would get ol' Jim that day without a fight.
Several hours earlier that day -- Oct. 17, 2008 -- Ballard's final day of elk hunting had started before sun-up, when he told Myrtle he'd be hunting all day and after dark. After all, this would be the last day of his week-long, elk-hunting vacation.
But this day, his life would be altered forever when, at around 10 a.m., he chose to turn off a main road onto a "Jeep trail" that grew steeper as it snaked up the mountain. Read More
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