Bird Dog Days, Wingshooting Ways

Bird Dog Days, Wingshooting Ways

Archibald Rutledge's Tales of Upland Hunting

  • Autor: Casada, Jim; Rutledge, Archibald
  • Editor: University of South Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 9781611176544
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611176551
  • eISBN Epub: 9781611176551
  • Lugar de publicación:  South Carolina , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación digital: 2016
  • Mes: Julio
  • Idioma: Ingles

An expanded edition of Rutledge's stories on game-bird hunting and devoted canine companions

Archibald Rutledge has long been recognized as one of the finest sporting scribes this country has ever produced. A prolific writer who specialized in stories on nature and hunting, over the course of a long and prolific career Rutledge produced more than fifty books of poetry and prose, held the position of South Carolina's poet laureate for thirty-three years, and garnered numerous honorary degrees and prizes for his writings. In this revised and expanded edition of Bird Dog Days, Wingshooting Ways, noted outdoor writer Jim Casada draws together Rutledge's stories on the southern heartland, deer hunting, turkey hunting, and Carolina Christmas hunts and traditions.

This collection, first published in 1998, turns to Rutledge's writings on two subjects near and dear to his heart that he understood with an intimacy growing out of a lifetime of experience—upland bird hunting and hunting dogs. Its contents range from delightful tales of quail and grouse hunts to pieces on special dogs and some of their traits. Bird Dog Days, Wingshooting Ways also includes a long fictional piece, "The Odyssey of Bolio," which shows that Rutledge's literary mastery extended beyond simple tales for outdoorsmen.

  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Selection
  • Introduction
  • Part One: The Friend of Man
    • The Friend of Man
    • Dog or No Dog
    • Some Startling Dogs
    • “Start ’Em Early, Arch”
    • The Odyssey of Bolio
    • My Most Memorable Dog
    • Daisy and the Chimera
    • Then Gabriel Blew His Horn
  • Part Two: The Magic of Grouse
    • The Partridge
    • Grouse of the Little Hills
    • Still-Hunting Sir Ruffneck
    • Grouse of the Cloudlands
    • Patsy and the Princes
    • The Prince of the Woodland
    • It’s the Scotch in Them
    • My Last Grouse Hunt
  • Part Three: A Bevy of Bobwhite Tales
    • The Baby Toddles
    • The Enemies of Quail
    • Wintering Bobwhite
    • Quail of the Kalmias
  • Part Four: A Mixed Bag
    • Ringnecks in the Stubble
    • The Philosopher among Dogs
    • What Sportsmen Bring Home
  • Bibliographical Essay

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