With Rifle and Petticoat

With Rifle and Petticoat
Title With Rifle and Petticoat PDF eBook
Author Kenneth P. Czech
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 210
Release 2002
Genre History
ISBN 1586670824

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Detailing specific time periods, regions hunted (Africa, Alaska, The Plains) and individual women, Kenneth Czech explores the interesting women who hunted a variety of big game animals around the world.

Our Frontier Is the World

Our Frontier Is the World
Title Our Frontier Is the World PDF eBook
Author Mischa Honeck
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 393
Release 2018-05-15
Genre History
ISBN 1501716204

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Mischa Honeck's Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century.The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The...

Heart Shots

Heart Shots
Title Heart Shots PDF eBook
Author Mary Zeiss Stange
Publisher Stackpole Books
Pages 395
Release 2018-03-28
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0811767272

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“A heart shot is what every big game hunter hopes for,” Editor Mary Zeiss Stange explains in the introduction to Heart Shots, “that perfect shot placement, whether of bullet or arrow, which ensures a quick, humane kill. A heart shot is also what the best hunting writing has always aimed for—that certain image, or theme, or turn of phrase that strikes to the core of our flesh-and-blood humanity, piercing the tissue-thin membrane between life and death.” Hunting and writing about it have not commonly been thought of as women’s work, but today women are hunting and writing about it in unprecedented numbers. This collection of stories by 46 hunters who happen to be female shows us that in fact some women have always hunted, and some have written dazzling accounts of their experiences. What you’ll find in k to nature and basics and to express in narrative, image, and metaphor the complex meaning of being predator, such impulses are ageless and genderless. There are differences in the way women go about hunting and telling its story. Some are subtle and some are startling. In this marvelous collection a full range of writers from hard-edged realists to contemplative naturalists express the complex thought and emotion that constitute hunting with intelligence and insight. These women are aware of the fact that they are doing something distinctly out of the ordinary. And this is a book distinctly out of the ordinary as well, to be enjoyed, pondered, and savored by women and men alike, all who appreciate a good story well told. [Stories and essays written by Mary Jobe Akeley, Kim Barnes, Nellie Bennett, Durga Bernhard, Courtney Borden, and many more.]

Silk and Steel

Silk and Steel
Title Silk and Steel PDF eBook
Author Robert L Wilson
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 1317
Release 2015-11-10
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1510709274

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Silk and Steel: Women at Arms is the first comprehensive presentation on the subject of women and firearms. No object has had a greater impact on world history over the past 650 years than the firearm, and Wilson shows how women have played a vital role in its development. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

The Three Rifles. (i. The Snider. Ii. The Military Smallbore. Iii. The Match Rifle.).

The Three Rifles. (i. The Snider. Ii. The Military Smallbore. Iii. The Match Rifle.).
Title The Three Rifles. (i. The Snider. Ii. The Military Smallbore. Iii. The Match Rifle.). PDF eBook
Author Stanford Sheridan Young
Publisher
Pages 88
Release 1877
Genre Rifles
ISBN

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Nimrod's Wife

Nimrod's Wife
Title Nimrod's Wife PDF eBook
Author Grace Gallatin Seton
Publisher Stackpole Books
Pages 436
Release 2004
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 9780811731393

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Born into a cosmopolitan family, Grace Gallatin Seton nonetheless took easily to the rough life of an outdoorswoman when she married naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton. Nimrod's Wife, first published in 1907, is the second account of the hunting exploits of the couple (A Woman Tenderfoot is the first). The narrative, as one contemporary reviewer in Outlook put it, "preserved the atmosphere of close companionship with woods and waters that, even to the uninitiated, what is after all the chief charm of sport with gun and rod is made quite clear." This charm is as vibrant and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago.

The Hunter Elite

The Hunter Elite
Title The Hunter Elite PDF eBook
Author Tara Kathleen Kelly
Publisher University Press of Kansas
Pages 348
Release 2018-03-15
Genre History
ISBN 0700625887

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At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt, T. S. Van Dyke, and other elite men began describing their big-game hunting as “manly sport with the rifle.” They also began writing about their experiences, publishing hundreds of narratives of hunting and adventure in the popular press (and creating a new literary genre in the process). But why did so many of these big-game hunters publish? What was writing actually doing for them, and what did it do for readers? In exploring these questions, The Hunter Elite reveals new connections among hunting narratives, publishing, and the American conservation movement. Beginning in the 1880s these prolific hunter-writers told readers that big-game hunting was a test of self-restraint and “manly virtues,” and that it was not about violence. They also opposed their sportsmanlike hunting to the slaughtering of game by British imperialists, even as they hunted across North America and throughout the British Empire. Their references to Americanism and manliness appealed to traditional values, but they used very modern publishing technologies to sell their stories, and by 1900 they were reaching hundreds of thousands of readers every month. When hunter-writers took up conservation as a cause, they used that reach to rally popular support for the national parks and for legislation that restricted hunting in the US, Canada, and Newfoundland. The Hunter Elite is the first book to explore both the international nature of American hunting during this period and the essential contributions of hunting narratives and the publishing industry to the North American conservation movement.