Author: Charles HallockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
The Sportsman's Gazetteer and General Guide
Author: Charles HallockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting
Author: R.K. SawyerPublisher: Eakin Press
ISBN: 168179375X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
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-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century brought momentous changes in attitudes and game laws: changes initially prompted by sportsmen who witnessed the disappearance of both the birds and their spectacular habitat. These changes forever affected the state’s storied hunting culture. Yet, as R. K. Sawyer discovered, the rich lore and reminiscences of the era’s hunters and guides who plied the marshy haunts from Beaumont to Brownsville, though fading, remain a colorful and essential part of the Texas outdoor heritage. Gleaned from interviews with sportsmen and guides of decades past as well as meticulous research in news archives, Sawyer’s vivid documentation of Texas’ deep-rooted waterfowl hunting tradition is accompanied by a superb collection of historical and modern photographs. By preserving this account of a way of life and a coastal environment that have both mostly vanished, A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting also pays tribute to the efforts of all those who fought to ensure that Texas’ waterfowl legacy would endure. This book will aid their efforts in championing the preservation of waterfowl and wetland resources for the benefit of future generations.
Bulletin
Author: Scranton Public Library (Scranton, Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Trübner & Co.'s Monthly List
Author: Prairie Ghost
Author: Richard E McCabePublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457109816
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
In this lavishly illustrated volume, Richard E. McCabe, Bart W. O'Gara and Henry M. Reeves explore the fascinating relationship of pronghorn with people in early America, from prehistoric evidence through the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. The only one of fourteen pronghorn-like genera to survive the great extinction brought on by human migration into North America, the pronghorn has a long and unique history of interaction with humans on the continent, a history that until now has largely remained unwritten. With nearly 150 black-and-white photographs, 16 pages of color illustrations, plus original artwork by Daniel P. Metz, Prairie Ghost: Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America tells the intriguing story of humans and these elusive big game mammals in an informative and entertaining fashion that will appeal to historians, biologists, sportsmen and the general reader alike.
The Bookseller
Author: Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: American Agriculturist
Author: Catalogue of Books on Angling, Shooting, Field Sports, Natural History, the Dog, Gun, Horse, Racing and Kindred Subjects
Author: George B. RaymondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Hunting and Fishing for Sport
Author: Richard L. HummelPublisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879726461
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Sociologist Hummel chides the social sciences for shying away from a study of sport hunting and fishing, describes the views of hunters and fishers and animal rights activists, compares how fishing for different species has been changed differently by technological innovations, recounts his own experiences at seven commercial gamefields, and analyzes the portrayal of hunting and fishing in popular films and boys' adventure books. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR