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Happy Hunting Ground. Edited by J. Frank Dobie ... Reprint Edition. (When the Woods Were Burnt.) [By Various Authors. With Plates.].
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Author: James Frank DOBIEGeneral Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library (London)Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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American Book Publishing Record
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
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'American Book Publishing Record' Cumulative
Author: R. R. Bowker LLCPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
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Happy Hunting-grounds
Author: William Hamilton GibsonPublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Happy Hunting Ground
Author: James Frank Dobie (1888-1964. ed)Publisher:
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Category : Folk-lore--Addresses, essays, lectures
Languages : en
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The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
Author: The Happy Hunting-Grounds
Author: Kermit RooseveltPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230294384
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Languages : en
Pages : 34
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... would go after duck and prairie-chicken with Marvin Hewitt. Father would enter into all the plans and go down with us to the range to practise with rifle or shotgun, and when we came back we would go over every detail of the trip with him, revelling in his praise when he felt that we had acquitted ourselves well. Father was ever careful to correct statements to the effect that he was a crack shot. He would explain how little being one had to do with success and achievement as a hunter. Perseverance, skill in tracking, quick vision, endurance, stamina, and a cool head, coupled with average ability as a marksman, produced far greater results than mere skill with a rifle --unaccompanied to any marked extent by the other attributes. It was the sum of all these qualities, each above the average, but none emphasized to an extraordinary degree, that accounted for father's great success in the hunting-field. He would point out many an excellent shot at a target who was of no use against game. Sometimes this would be due to lack of nerve. Father himself was equally cool and unconcerned whether his quarry was a charging lion or a jack-rabbit; with, when it came to the question of scoring a hit, the resultant advantage in the size of the former as a target. In other instances a good man at the range was not so good in the field because he was accustomed to shooting under conventional and regulated conditions, and fell down when it came to shooting under disadvantageous circumstances--if he had been running and were winded, if he were hungry or wet, or tired, or feeling the sun, if he were uncertain of the wind or the range. Sometimes, of course, a crack shot possesses all the other qualities; such is the case with Stewart Edward White, whom...