Research Catalog

Title

Hide, horn, fish, and fowl : Texas hunting and fishing lore / edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt.

Publication

Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Untiedt, Kenneth L., 1966-

Description

xi, 367 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; 67

Uniform Title

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 67.

Subject

• Fishing > Texas > Folklore
• Hunting > Texas > Folklore

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The hunting drive and its place in our lore -- Gone 'a hunting / Len Ainsworth. -- Making a drive in Botswana / Francis Edward Abernethy -- The decline of the poacher as folk hero in Texas / Riley Froh -- Nocturnal woodpecker / W. Frank Mayhew -- Fishing Texas: a passion passed on by my dad / Jim Harris -- The Angelina Cat and Coon Hunting Association : a sort of memoir / John C. Wolf -- Dentistry, dehorning, and more : South Texas women's hunting stories / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell -- The lore of hunting : deer, hogs, coons, and even foxes -- Deer leaves / Bob Dunn -- Don't that beat all / Francis Edward Abernethy -- Hinkel Shillings and the Red Ranger / Thad Sitton -- The lore of wild hog hunting in West Texas / Kenneth W. Davis -- Hunting javelina hogs in South Texas / James B. Kelly -- Jess's first coon hunt / Lee Haile -- Fishing lore in Texas -- Skills of the rivermen : ways and means of market fishermen / Wildwood Dean Price -- Fisherman's luck / Wildwood Dean Price -- The big fish that didn't get away / Nina Marshall Garrett -- Our family fishing trips / R. McCormack -- Fishing from Indianola to Boca Chica and waters in between / Jean Granberry Schnitz -- The jetty / Randy Cameron -- You hunt what?! unusual prey and other things we chase -- Jackrabbit drives (and other types of rabbit hunting) in the Pleasant Valley community, Fisher County, Texas / Ruth Cleveland Riddels -- Rattlesnake at the ants in the pants / Clyde (Chip) Morgan -- The pointer / Ruth Riddels -- Man hounds and dog sergeants / Thad Sitton -- This is for the birds / Charlie Oden -- Hunting the elusive lost mines and buried treasures of Texas / W.C. Jameson -- The one that got away (or should have): anecdotes and funny stories -- Sierra treed / Lee Haile -- Porch hunting / Sue Friday -- Deliverance II : the tale of a strange encounter in the Big Thicket / Robert J. (Jack) Duncan -- A Thanksgiving catfish / Jerry Young -- Pranks in hunting camp; or, the physiological and psychological benefits of ancient rites practiced in bucolic and fraternal settings / Robert Flynn -- Fishing for whoppers / Henry Wolff, Jr. -- Roping a deer / Anonymous -- Texas menu 1835 : venison and honey, prairie chicken, or baked fish / Jerry Bryan Lincecum -- Fisherman's paradise : 'his cap never got wet' / Blaine T. Williams -- Fishing / Vicky J. Rose -- Caney Creek night hunting : a saga of dire situations and scared prayers / Wildwood Dean Price.

ISBN

• 9781574413205 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1574413201 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2011034657

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library