History afield : stories from the golden age of Wisconsin sporting life / Robert C. Willging.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willging, Robert C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Wisconsin--History.

Sports.

Recreation--Wisconsin--History.

Recreation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stories of sportsmen past come to life in History Afield , an account of the many and varied sporting pursuits that are part of the Wisconsin tradition.Author and outdoorsman Robert Willging shares more than two dozen tales of Wisconsin sporting history, highlighting the hunt for waterfowl, upland birds, and deer; trout fishing in wild north.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Fish Stories""; ""2. Boats in the Backyard""; ""3. The Mepps Story""; ""4. Trouting on the Brule: An 1875 Fishing Expedition to Northern Wisconsin and Michigan ""; ""5. Lost Outboard Recovered after Seventy Years""; ""6. Carl Marty�s Northernaire: A Special Place in Time""; ""7. Hazen�s Long Lake Lodge""; ""8. First Resorts: Teal Lake Lodge""; ""9. Mel�s Trading Post""; ""10. Pastika�s Sport Shop: Ninety Years of Muskies and Minnows""; ""11. Duke�s Outboards: A Northwoods Institution""; ""12. The Rhinelander Boat Company""

""13. Waterfowl Hunting with Live Decoys""""14. Spring Duck Hunting in the 1800s""; ""15. An Old Dog for a New Century: The History of the American Water Spaniel ""; ""16. The Armistice Day Storm: The Winds of Hell""; ""17. One Day in March 1933""; ""18. Ike�s First Vacation to the Wisconsin Northwoods""; ""19. The Summer White House on the Brule""; ""20. Murder at Pelican Lake""; ""21. Trapping in the Blood: The Carl Schels Story""; ""22. Remembering the State Fur Farm""; ""23. “Le Portage� and the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway""; ""24. Pioneer Bits and Pieces""

""25. Charles Comiskey and the Northwoods""""26. The Wisconsin White Pine That Built a New York University ""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-184) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-87020-570-6

OCLC:

923517560