Texas Market Hunting : Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws /

From its earliest days of human habitation, the Texas coast was home to seemingly endless clouds of ducks, geese, swans, and shorebirds. By the 1880s, Texas huntsmen, or market hunters, as they came to be called, began providing meat and plumage for the restaurant tables and millinery salons of a ra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sawyer, R. K. (Robert Knowlton), 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2013]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Waterfowl shooting.
Market hunting (Game hunting)
Game protection.
Game laws.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Field Sports.
Gibier > Protection > Texas > Mexique, Côte du golfe du > Histoire.
Gibier d'eau > Chasse > Texas > Mexique, Côte du golfe du > Histoire.
Game laws > Texas > Gulf Coast > History.
Game protection > Texas > Gulf Coast > History.
Market hunting (Game hunting) > Texas > Gulf Coast > History.
Waterfowl shooting > Texas > Gulf Coast > History.
Texas > Gulf Coast.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Sowing the seeds of Texas market hunting
  • A national appetite
  • Fowl as fad and fashion
  • The window closes
  • The law and the outlaw
  • Epilogue : the last big sting.

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