Waterfowling on the Chesapeake, 1819-1936
By: C. John Sullivan.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Waterfowl shooting -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History.; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-189) and index.
Table of contents: title: The gunning clubs; title: Shooting methods; title: The era of the sinkbox; title: Chesapeake Bay retrievers; title: Waterfowling firearms; title: Protecting a Maryland tradition; title: Legislative time line; title: Duck decoys; title: In the shop of Paul Gibson; title: Collecting decoys in Harford County; title: Branded decoys; title: Teal of the Upper Chesapeake; title: A whiteness of swans; title: Charles Nelson Barnard; title: Robert F. McGaw, Jr.; title: Samuel Treadway Barnes; title: The Hollys of Havre de Grace; title: The Grahams of Charlestown; title: The Crisfield Carvers; title: The unknown Carver.