Cottar 

        Safari

Generations of Cottar

in Kenya

In our Walton research, Abolina Walton married William Hickson Cottar.  Among their children were Emma Cottar, my husband, Justin's grandmother and Charles Cottar, shown above.

Without going in to the entire story, I will tell you Charles Cottar had a love of hunting big game in Kenya.  His son, grandson and great grandson have also carried that love with them.  Calvin carries on the family Safari business.  To learn more about the Safari's and the family, click on the picture below.  Abolina Walton and William Hickson Cottar eventually moved to Red Bluff, California, USA.  In 1957, Glen visited Red Bluff and was written about in the local paper, The Red Bluff Daily News of Tehama County, California.

Just a few comments by Glen, during his visit  to Red Bluff, are scattered about this page.  For a look at a map of Kenya, click on the Kenyan flag, above.

1920's Safari Camp

"Elephant poaching days are about over.  The tusks today are worth about $4. pound.  They weigh as much as 250 pounds."  Glen Cottar, 1/19/1957  

"Bongo, a 500-pound antelope requires more skillful hunting lives in the dense tropical forest; it is rare, elusive, and fast as the wind."  Glen Cottar, 1/19/1957   

"If you don't hit one of those big boys in the right place, he'll make your rifle look like a pea shooter."  Glen Cottar, 1/19/57.  This is in reference to being charged by a lion.  His grandfather, Charles Cottar, was mauled by wounded leopards three different times.  Charles was killed in 1940 by a wounded rhinoceros. 

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