Research Catalog

Title

Romance of natural history : or, Wild scenes and wild hunters / by C.W. Webber.

Author

Webber, Charles W. (Charles Wilkins), 1819-1856.

Publication

Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852.

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Details

Description

610 pages : illustrations, plates; 23 cm

Alternative Title

• Wild scenes and wild hunters
• Hunter naturalist, romance of sporting

Subject

• Hunting
• Natural history > Outdoor books
• hunting
• Natural history

Genre/Form

Guidebooks.

Note

• Published also under titles: Wild scenes and wild hunters; and The hunter naturalist. Romance of sporting.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Bird, beast, and hunter -- The boy hunter -- The naturalist developing -- The night hunt in recess -- Audubon -- the hunter-naturalist -- Audubon and Wilson -- Audubon and Boone -- The grave of the silent hunter -- Old Bill Smith -- the silent hunter -- The hunters of Kentucky -- James Harrod of Harrodsburg -- The fox and fox-hunting in America -- The Texan huntress -- Metaphysics of bear hunting -- Hunting peccaries in Texas -- a bear hunt without the metaphysics -- The buffalo -- Panters, and our other felines -- Captain Dan Henrie; his adventures with wolves -- The darkie fiddler and the wolves -- Skater chased by wolves -- The mustang, or wild horse -- A bird's eye view of the speclater -- Trolling in June -- A night-hunt up the Cunganumck -- Trouting on Jessup's river -- Anecdotes of moose and deer hunting among the northern lakes -- Hunting elephants in South Africa -- The giraffe -- South African lions -- The rhinoceros and hippopotamus -- Buffalo and antelope of South Africa.

OCLC

• ocm02678009
• 2678009
• SCSB-703632

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library