Author: James HightowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Describes boy's life in the Indian Territory.
Happy Hunting Grounds
Author: James HightowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Describes boy's life in the Indian Territory.
Happy Hunting-grounds
Author: William Hamilton GibsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
The Happy Hunting-grounds
Author: Kermit RooseveltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Happy Hunting-grounds
Author: Kermit RooseveltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Happy Hunting-grounds
Author: Kermit RooseveltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Happy Hunting-Grounds
Author: Kermit RooseveltPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230294384
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
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...
My Happy Hunting Grounds
Author: Alfred Erskine Gathorne-HardyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Happy Hunting Grounds
Author: Happy Hunting Grounds
Author: Stanley VestalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
HAPPY HUNTING-GROUNDS
Author: Kermit 1889-1943 RooseveltPublisher:
ISBN: 9781362734499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description