Up for auction a RARE! "Bass Pro Shops" Founder John Morris Hand Written Letter on Bass Letterhead.

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John

L. Morris (born 1948) is an

American billionaire businessman, and the

founder, majority owner, and CEO of Bass Pro Shops, a hunting and fishing retail chain in the US

and Canada. As of September 2021, his net worth was estimated at US$7.1

billion. John Morris was born in Springfield, Missouri in

1948. Morris was educated at Drury University. Morris founded Bass Pro Shops in 1972 when

he began selling fishing equipment in the back of one of his father's Brown Derby liquor

stores in Springfield. According to Forbes, Morris has a net worth of $4.1 billion. Morris is also the founder of the White River Marine Group.

Morris opened the Wonders of

Wildlife Museum & Aquarium in Springfield, in 2017. The museum helps bring visitors to Bass Pro's store

there, with which it shares a location. In September 2017, Bass Pro

acquired Cabela’s, another retailer of outdoor

merchandise, for $4 billion. Morris and his family were presented with

the Audubon Medal in

February 2019, in recognition of their conservation efforts. Morris also

founded Top of the Rock in Branson, Missouri, which houses one of the largest

collection of Native American arrowheads and art in the region. Top of the

Rock experienced a 70-foot wide sinkhole on May 22, 2016.