Early Southern sports and sportsmen, 1830-1910
Subtitle: a literary anthology
By: Jacob F. Rivers, III
Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Columbia, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781611173970; 9781611173987
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: American Hunting stories; Hunting; Anecdotes; Hunters; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: John James Audubon, 1785-1851 : The wild turkey; title: David Crockett, 1786-1836 : Bear hunting in Tennessee; title: Alexander G. McNutt, 1802-1848 : A swim for a deer : Chunkey's fight with the panthers; title: William Elliott, 1788-1863 : A wild-cat hunt in Carolina : A day at Chee-Ha : Random thoughts on hunting; title: William Gilmore Simms, 1806-1870 : "Bucks have at ye all," old song : Which augurs an affair of boars!; title: Phillip Pendleton Kennedy, 1808-1864 : The falls of the Blackwater; title: Thomas Bangs Thorpe, 1815-1878 : Wild turkey hunting : Wild-cat hunting; title: Johnson Jones Hooper, 1815-1862 : The gentleman's amusement : The setter and pointer : On the shooting of quail; title: Henry Clay Lewis (Madison Tensas), 1825-1850 : The indefatigable bear-hunter; title: Charles B. Coale, 1807-1879 : A bear hunt in the Iron Mountain; title: Charles Edward Whitehead, 1829-1903 : The deer hunt : The drowned lands; title: Alexander Hunter, 1843-1914 : Among the quail in Virginia : Cobb's Island : A sporting fiasco.