Gone to the swamp : raw materials for the good life in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta / Robert Leslie Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918-2017.

Series:

Fire ant books.

Fire ant books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pioneers--Alabama--Baldwin County--Biography.

Pioneers.

Country life--Alabama--Mobile-Tensaw Delta.

Country life.

Outdoor life--Alabama--Mobile-Tensaw Delta.

Outdoor life.

Swamps--Alabama--Mobile-Tensaw Delta.

Swamps.

Baldwin County (Ala.)--Social life and customs.

Baldwin County (Ala.).

Mobile-Tensaw Delta (Ala.)--Social life and customs.

Mobile-Tensaw Delta (Ala.).

Baldwin County (Ala.)--Biography.

Mobile-Tensaw Delta (Ala.)--Biography.

Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918-2017.

Smith, Robert Leslie.

Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918-2017--Family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Gone to the Swamp; The Skin Game; The Public Timber Inspector; Oxen and the Men Who Drove Them; High Water Logging; Rafting and Loading Gunboats; Work of the Blacksmith; A Personal Note; Work of the Sawyer; Camp Life; Night Rafting; Kingfisher; The Yupon; Aunt Violet Boston; River Tale; Wildcats; Lost in the Swamp; Fear Strikes the Bend; Swamp Tale; The Kennedy Mills; Sawmill Tales; Sawmill Tales Continued; Logging in Blakeley Battleground; Mechanized Logging; Flatboats; Stockton Boat Ways; Latter Day Watermen; Latter Day Pullboating

The Last WatermenOther Swamp Stories; Recovery of a Union Mortar in the Delta; Famous Trees; Oil in the Delta; Hubbard Landing; An Alabama State Treasure; The Old Ways; County Surveyor; Hunting Camp Life; The McGowan Compass; Dixie Landing; The Art and Practice of Hollering; United States Reserve Fleet; Delta Elementary School; How to Build a Double Ender; Construction of a Flatboat; Glossary

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780817380694

0817380698

OCLC:

609844519