Mule Deer: Hunting Today's Trophies

Mule Deer: Hunting Today's Trophies Review

With tips on what to do before and after the kill, this book will benefit every hunter from novice to expert. More than 180 photos show readers how to spot mule deer in the wild and where to look for the bigger deer.

Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)

Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science) Review

This innovative study re-examines the dynamics of race relations in the post–Civil War South from an altogether fresh perspective: field sports.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wealthy white men from Southern cities and the industrial North traveled to the hunting and fishing lodges of the old Confederacy—escaping from the office to socialize among like-minded peers. These sportsmen depended on local black guides who knew the land and fishing holes and could ensure a successful outing. For whites, the ability to hunt and fish freely and employ black laborers became a conspicuous display of their wealth and social standing.

But hunting and fishing had been a way of life for all Southerners—blacks included—since colonial times. After the war, African Americans used their mastery of these sports to enter into market activities normally denied people of color, thereby becoming more economically independent from their white employers. Whites came to view black participation in hunting and fishing as a serious threat to the South's labor system. Scott E. Giltner shows how African-American freedom developed in this racially tense environment—how blacks' sense of competence and authority flourished in a Jim Crow setting.

Giltner's thorough research using slave narratives, sportsmen's recollections, records of fish and game clubs, and sporting periodicals offers a unique perspective on the African-American struggle for independence from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s.

(2009)

Girls' Guide to Hunting & Fishing: A Novel

Girls' Guide to Hunting & Fishing: A Novel Review

Maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal & spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, relationships, & the treacherous waters of the workplace. What is love, she wonders. How do you find it (& keep it) -- & above all, who makes the rules? When she is swept off her feet by an older man & into a world of cocktail parties & country houses, Jane learns what it means when her lover says he wants ''to do everything'' with her, & the stakes become far too high. She also learns of a drama around a Greenwich Village kitchen table, & a never-ending wedding reception. Finally, she learns not only when to fish & when to cut bait, but who really makes the rules. A compassionate comedy of manners.

Classic Hunting Stories

Classic Hunting Stories Review

For hunters, listening to the accounts of kindred spirits recalling the drama and action that go with good days afield ranks among life's most pleasurable activities. Here, then, are some of the best hunting tales ever written, stories that sweep from charging elephants in the African bush to mountain goats in the mountain crags of the Rockies, from the gallant bird dogs of the Southern pinelands to the great Western hunts of Theodore Roosevelt.

There are 20 stories in this collection, and they capture the very soul of hunting. Included, among others, are:

A Tale of Three Lions by H. Rider Haggard--Elephant Friends and Foes by Carl E. Akeley--The Mountain Goat at Home by William T. Hornaday, Sc.D.--Old Tantrybogus by Ben Ames Williams--Buffalo Hunt On the Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman--The Forest and the Steppe by Ivan Turgenev--Bear Hunting in the Smokies by Horace Kephart--The Alaskan Grizzly by Harold McCracken--The Plural of Moose Is Mise by Irvin S. Cobb--The Warwick Woodlands by Frank Forester--Red Letter Days in British Columbia by Lieutenant Townsend Whelen--Bob White, Down 't Aberdeen by Nash Buckingham--Brant Shooting on Great South Bay by Edwin Main Post--That Twenty-Five Pound Gobbler by Archibald Rutledge--Journal of a Trapper by Osborne Russell--Hunting Trips of a Ranchman by Theodore Roosevelt

Settle into an armchair, and let the expedition begin.

Last Flight Out: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fishing

Last Flight Out: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fishing Review

Whether he's looking for wild orangutans on Borneo or diving off the coast of South Africa, Randy Wayne White is one of America's most adventurous travelers. Now Randy's back in Last Flight Out, a brand-new collection of essays keeping us up to date on his latest excursions.
Randy White is a "mover" and has no time for people who can't keep up. Join him as he dives in the infamous lake called the Bad Blue Hole on the desolate Cat Island in the Bahamas. Search for the perfect hot pepper in Colombia, and closer to home, go raccoon hunting in Pioneer, Ohio, where the hunted almost always outsmart the hunters. Get in the ring with Shine Forbes, an eighty-year-old fighter in prime condition and Ernest Hemingway's former sparring partner, and go on a secret mission to steal back General Manuel Noriega's bar stools. Though he rarely finds what he's looking for-such as the half-human, half-
alligator creature known as "Gatorman"-he cultivates his unique ability to revel in the unique and comical situations of each exotic trip.
From a jungle survival school in Panama to a week at a professional wrestler's training camp, White leaves the reader mesmerized by the potential of undiscovered places and the promise of endless adventure in unfamiliar territory. An icon of the new breed of thick-skinned, high endurance travelers, Randy White is the real deal.

Big Game Hunter's Guide to Montana (Big Game Hunting Guide Series) (Big Game Hunting Guide Series) (Wilderness Adventures Big Game Guidebooks)

Big Game Hunter's Guide to Montana (Big Game Hunting Guide Series) (Big Game Hunting Guide Series) (Wilderness Adventures Big Game Guidebooks) Review

This comprehensive guide covers all of the big game species: elk, whitetail and mule deer, antelope, sheep, goat, moose, black bear, and mountain lion. Ron covers the best areas to find trophy animals, hunting tactics and techniques for each species - including sign, tracks, habitat and habits - shot placement, recommended rifles and cartridges, as well as other hunting equipment There are detailed distribution maps for each animal and success ratios for each species in each hunting region. Plus, there are listings for each region for sporting good stores, gunsmiths, meat processors, taxidermists, accommodations, campgrounds, guides and outfitters. There are over 100 photos and 116 maps. This is a must guidebook for planning a successful big game hunt in Big Sky Montana.