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A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting : The Decoys, Guides, Clubs, and Places, 1870s to 1970s /
The days are gone when seemingly limitless numbers of canvasbacks, mallards, and Canada geese filled the skies above the Texas coast. Gone too are the days when, in a single morning, hunters often harvested ducks, shorebirds, and other waterfowl by the hundreds. The hundred-year period from the mid-...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & amp;M University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword, by Matt Kaminski vii; Acknowledgments ix; Introduction 1; PART ONE
- TEXAS WATERFOWL HUNTING; Sport Hunting in Texas 7; Decoys and Duck Calls 23; Hunting Laws: Rules of the Game 51; PART TWO
- COASTAL TEXAS HUNTING CLUBS, GUIDES, AND PLACES; Sabine Estuary 59; East Bay 87; Trinity River Delta 127; San Jacinto River 145; West Galveston Bay 161; Brazos and San Bernard Rivers to the Gulf 173; Matagorda Bay 185; Espiritu Santo and San Antonio Bays 205; Copano and Aransas Bays 221; South Bay to Corpus Christi Bay 255; Laguna Madre 279.
- PART THREE
- NORTH, WEST, AND EAST-INLAND SPORT HUNTINGBig Prairie and Eagle Lake 299; Katy Prairie 325; Short Stories from Farther Afield 343; Epilogue 361; Notes 367; Index 391; Cover2.