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Early Southern sports and sportsmen, 1830-1910 : a literary anthology /

Early Southern Sports and Sportsmen brings to new readers a wealth of hunting and fishing lore heretofore hard to find by any but scholars in the field of Southern literature. Rivers has gathered a host of well-read and well-heeled sportsmen who relish each and every detail of their encounters with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rivers, Jacob F., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • John James Audubon, 1785-1851 : The wild turkey
  • David Crockett, 1786-1836 : Bear hunting in Tennessee
  • Alexander G. McNutt, 1802-1848 : A swim for a deer : Chunkey's fight with the panthers
  • William Elliott, 1788-1863 : A wild-cat hunt in Carolina : A day at Chee-Ha : Random thoughts on hunting
  • William Gilmore Simms, 1806-1870 : "Bucks have at ye all," old song : Which augurs an affair of boars!
  • Phillip Pendleton Kennedy, 1808-1864 : The falls of the Blackwater
  • Thomas Bangs Thorpe, 1815-1878 : Wild turkey hunting : Wild-cat hunting
  • Johnson Jones Hooper, 1815-1862 : The gentleman's amusement : The setter and pointer : On the shooting of quail
  • Henry Clay Lewis (Madison Tensas), 1825-1850 : The indefatigable bear-hunter
  • Charles B. Coale, 1807-1879 : A bear hunt in the Iron Mountain
  • Charles Edward Whitehead, 1829-1903 : The deer hunt : The drowned lands
  • Alexander Hunter, 1843-1914 : Among the quail in Virginia : Cobb's Island : A sporting fiasco.