Hunting & Home in the Southern Heartland

Hunting & Home in the Southern Heartland

The Best of Archibald Rutledge

  • Author: Casada, Jim; Rutledge, Archibald
  • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 9780872498228
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781643361321
  • Place of publication:  South Carolina , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2020
  • Month: May
  • DDC: 813/.52
  • Language: English

Archibald Rutledge ranks as one of America's best-loved outdoor writers. Throughout his long, productive career he lived close to the land and had a rare knack for capturing on paper the joys of hunting, the beauty of the outdoors, and the camaraderie which lies at the heart of the sporting experience. Rutledge was a staunch son of the Southern soil, and he wrote with effective feeling of the virtues that region has always prized—honor, love of one's family, self-respect, and honesty. This volume is the first in a trilogy which will once again make available Rutledge's finest prose work. Casada, a long-time student and admirer of Rutledge, has chosen thirty-five stories which represent Rutledge at his best. To enter the world of this masterful storyteller is to share the pleasure he brought to legions of admiring readers during his lifetime.

  • Cover
  • HUNTING & HOME in the SOUTHERN HEARTLAND
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Selection
  • Introduction ARCHIBALD RUTLEDGE: SWEET SOUTHERN SCRIBE
  • PART I FAMILY AND FRIENDS
    • My Colonel
    • I Leave Home
    • Those Were the Days
    • Sometimes It Happens
    • Why I Taught My Boys To Be Hunters
    • The Daisybank Table
    • My Favorite Hunting Story
    • A Plantation Christmas
  • PART II CANINE COMPANIONS
    • Boll-weevil Bores In
    • Poinsettia and Sparkplug
    • Sarsaparilla
    • That Night at Bowman's
    • O Ringing Bells!
  • PART III NATURE'S WAYS
    • The Lady Was Kind
    • Babes in the Wildwoods
    • A Forest Fire
    • A Gallant Mother
    • Twenty Feet at Rimini
  • PART IV HUNTING JOYS
    • Those Big Mountain Boys
    • Snipe of the Pinelands
    • Paddling Them Up
    • Adventures with the Black Prince
    • Prince of the Woodlands
    • A Unique Quail Hunt
  • PART V CHIMERAS
    • A Great Serpent
    • Serpents of the Trail
    • A Demon of the Jetties
    • The Specter of Tiger Creek
    • Dangerous Beasts
    • The Killer of Hell Hole
  • PART VI TALES TALL AND TRUE
    • Congaree
    • A Pair of Mallards
    • What Scared Kitty
    • Judge Napier's Sentence
    • A Wildwood Christmas
  • Bibliographical Note

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