Wild Sports in the South; Or, The Camp-fires of the Everglades PDF Download

Author: Charles Edward Whitehead
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Category : Everglades (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Charles Edward Whitehead
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Category : Everglades (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Author: Charles E. Whitehead
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ISBN: 9781331444503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Excerpt from Wild Sports in the South: Or, of the Camp-Fires of the Everglades The larger portion of the Sketches contained in this volume were contributions made by the Author to The Spirit of the Times, a few years ago, under the title of Camp-Fire Stories, and as some of them have been floating about in other papers, this statement seems necessary, lest the reader may regard these twice-told tales as lacking in originality. Nothing more is claimed for this volume than that it contains pleasant reminiscences of hunting life and adventure in the peninsula of Florida, and counterparts of tales, some of them remembered, some of them fancied, that frontier hunters tell when assembled at night around their camp-fires. The Author does not ask that each story shall be regarded as having occurred literally as written; but he believes the spirit of the tales, the description of natural scenery, and the fragments of Indian history to be correct, and he has carefully striven not to offend the keen observation and long experience of his hunting comrades at the South whose eyes will scrutinize these pages, by any allusion to natural history which is not exactly true. If the book will recall the Author pleasantly to their minds, or awaken the remembrance of grand old sports and merry camp-fires in the States of the South, its object is attained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Charles Edward Whitehead
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 9780813010892
Category : Everglades (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Author: Charles E. Whitehead
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497868175
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Languages : en
Pages : 438

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1860 Edition.

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Author: Charles E 1829-1903 Whitehead
Publisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781376770667
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Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: Charles E. (Charles Edward) Whitehead
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ISBN: 9781360748375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Author: Charles Edward Whitehead
Publisher: Florida Sand Dollar Book
ISBN: 9780813010953
Category : History
Languages : en
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"Whitehead, a wealthy New York attorney and avid sportsman, recounts an 1830s hunting expedition to Florida in this captivating reissue of a volume originally published in 1860. Whitehead recounts bear and turkey hunts, a panther that is caught in a pig pen, an Indian attack on a lighthouse, and various encounters with Florida pioneers. A vivid and, according to biologist Lovett Williams who provides the introduction, largely accurate depiction of a long-vanished Florida. "--Tampa Tribune-Times Brought to the attention of UPF by the late Archie Carr, this sportsman's memoir of the Florida peninsula in the nineteenth century is a series of charming tales about hunting expeditions along the cracker frontier. The Florida peninsula in the 1830s was covered by flatwoods, swamps of giant cypress, and hammocks of cabbage palm and live oak trees. The land teemed with panther, black bear, wild hogs, and white ibis. Writing with clarity and elegance, Whitehead weaves his descriptions of this landscape into an old-fashioned, hair-raising adventure story. One strand relates the affairs of an extended hunting expedition; the other stand consists of the anecdotes told by the main characters around the campfires in the evenings. The hunting and fishing practices of natives in the area, principally Seminoles, and a few rugged pioneers enhance the historical detail.