Who is cabela

Its fifty stores look like enormous log cabins, and inside of them hundreds of taxidermied animals grapple in lifelike poses—grizzlies rear up, rams stand atop plaster mountains like figures on a wedding cake. Generally, the only wildlife in sight are the crows picking over the litter. Some of the newest branches are on the edges of cities—Denver, Austin—that epitomize sprawl.

Dick Cabela travelled the world shooting big game, and his mansion in Sidney, Nebraska, is a showplace for his trophy animals. Cabela wears a camouflage blazer; his wife, Mary, sitting next to him, is in an American-flag sweater.

Mary is listed as a co-founder of the company, but her role is frequently glossed over. Dick Cabela embodied two, seemingly contradictory, strains of American folk hero: the frontiersman, typified by Daniel Boone, and the bootstrapping businessman of a Horatio Alger novel. Next he took out an ad in a Casper, Wyo. Send 25c for postage and handling. Cabela, 77, died Monday at home in Sidney, Neb. The company declined to disclose the cause.

Richard Cabela was born Oct. Mary kept a record of names and addresses on recipe cards, and Dick bought more imported gear. As the operation continued to grow and the mimeographed sheets became a printed catalog, they moved into the basement of the family store and then to a former American Legion Hall, where they had a small retail outlet.

In they moved operations into a former John Deere dealer in the nearby town of Sidney. Sales were booming and the catalogs went far beyond fishing to offer products for hunting, backpacking and other outdoor activities. Teams of telephone operators in the building took orders. In the company opened a separate 75,square-foot retail store in Sidney, dominated by a man-made mountain populated by stuffed, mounted animals. The big-box stores spread and greatly expanded in size.

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