Early Southern Sports and Sportsmen, 1830-1910 : A Literary Anthology / Jacob F. Rivers, III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivers, Jacob F., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunters--United States--Biography.

Hunters.

Hunting--United States--Anecdotes.

Hunting.

Hunting stories, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of classic hunting tales and backwoods humor capturing the Southern sporting life.

Contents:

John James Audubon, 1785-1851 : The wild turkey

David Crockett, 1786-1836 : Bear hunting in Tennessee

Alexander G. McNutt, 1802-1848 : A swim for a deer : Chunkey's fight with the panthers

William Elliott, 1788-1863 : A wild-cat hunt in Carolina : A day at Chee-Ha : Random thoughts on hunting

William Gilmore Simms, 1806-1870 : "Bucks have at ye all," old song : Which augurs an affair of boars!

Phillip Pendleton Kennedy, 1808-1864 : The falls of the Blackwater

Thomas Bangs Thorpe, 1815-1878 : Wild turkey hunting : Wild-cat hunting

Johnson Jones Hooper, 1815-1862 : The gentleman's amusement : The setter and pointer : On the shooting of quail

Henry Clay Lewis (Madison Tensas), 1825-1850 : The indefatigable bear-hunter

Charles B. Coale, 1807-1879 : A bear hunt in the Iron Mountain

Charles Edward Whitehead, 1829-1903 : The deer hunt : The drowned lands

Alexander Hunter, 1843-1914 : Among the quail in Virginia : Cobb's Island : A sporting fiasco.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61117-398-1

OCLC:

894227713