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Book Synopsis Foxhunters Speak by : Mary Motley Kalergis
Download or read book Foxhunters Speak written by Mary Motley Kalergis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oral history of foxhunting examines the mentors and influences of fifty people who have dedicated their lives to the sport of horse and hound. From the seventy some years of hound breeding experience of Melvin Poe, to the unusual story of a retired grandmother who decided to overcome her fear of horses and got her colors with Red Rock Hounds on her seventieth birthday, this oral history explores the depth and the breadth of foxhunting through the faces and voices of fifty different people who have been a tremendous influence on the sport or whose lives have been tremendously influenced by foxhunting. These oral histories are accompanied by beautiful black and white portraits taken by photographer Mary Kalergis.The recollected sights, sounds and scents of foxhunting shared within these pages are a feast for the senses and nourish the soul.
Book Synopsis Foxhunting with Melvin Poe by : Peter Winants
Download or read book Foxhunting with Melvin Poe written by Peter Winants and published by Derrydale Press. This book was released on 2002-08-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foxhunting is in Melvin Poe's blood. As a child, he hunted with hounds owned by his grandfather and father in Rappahannock County, Virginia, and he became the professional huntsman for the Old Dominion Hounds for 16 seasons and the Orange County Hunt for 27 years. He is now, at age 82, in his eleventh year as huntsman for the Bath County Hounds. In 1979, Melvin was featured in the film documentary "Thoughts on Hunting. "Author Peter Winants, a lifelong foxhunter, has been the field master at Bath County since the founding of the hunt in 1992. His book ably captures the essence of one of the most legendary and colorful characters in American foxhunting. In addition to Melvin's upbringing, chapters deal with breeding and training foxhounds, his techniques in finding and hunting foxes and the strategies that have led to immense success through the years at hound shows. The final chapter, "Thanks, Melvin," has testimonials from a number of prominent foxhunters who have enjoyed sport with Melvin, including Benjamin H. Hardaway III, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Senator John W. Warner. Foxhunting With Melvin Poe is must reading for foxhunters and anyone who enjoys the countryside and nature.
Book Synopsis Foxhunting by : Hugh J. Robards, MFH
Download or read book Foxhunting written by Hugh J. Robards, MFH and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2011-04-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned Master and huntsman Hugh J. Robards, MFH engagingly informs foxhunters, new or experienced, how to more fully absorb the drama of the hunt. What is the huntsman doing? Why does he do that? What about the whippers-in? The Field Master? The hounds? The fox? What problems do each encounter in the field during the course of a typical hunt? What decisions must they make? It may be a revelation to some, especially those who hunt to ride, but even while standing still, things are happening if you know what to look for and how to interpret what you see. By learning what to watch and listen for, field members can increase their awareness and thus their enjoyment of every hunting day.
Book Synopsis American Foxhunting by : Alexander Mackay-Smith
Download or read book American Foxhunting written by Alexander Mackay-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Foxhunting Adventures by : Norman Fine
Download or read book Foxhunting Adventures written by Norman Fine and published by Derrydale Press. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirty-two foxhunting stories populated by horses, hounds, challenging obstacles, and unforgettable personalities. Accompany Norman Fine to Ireland, England, Canada, and across the United States as he meets, hunts with, and is educated by the foremost Masters, huntsmen, hound breeders, and sporting historians of the last fifty years. Fine's stories, most of them previously published in the U.S. and England, are connected chronologically by new material in which the author explains how he came to meet these larger-than-life characters, what role they played in his development from horseman to foxhunter, and how he came to hunt with their hounds.
Download or read book Chaseworld written by Mary T. Hufford and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaseworld is a study of the foxhunters in the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey. Mary Hufford examines the activities that occur before, during, and after foxchases and analyzes the stories that hunters tell about chases. Through these activities and narratives, she contends, Pine Barrens foxhunters have collaboratively constructed an alternate reality—the Chaseworld.
Book Synopsis The American Fox-Hound - Embracing a History of the Celebrated Trigg, Birdsong and Maupin Strains by : Haiden C. Trigg
Download or read book The American Fox-Hound - Embracing a History of the Celebrated Trigg, Birdsong and Maupin Strains written by Haiden C. Trigg and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to American fox hunting, with historical details, information on notable packs, descriptions of hounds and their different types, information on famous meetings and events, and much more. This book highly recommended for those with an interest in the history of American fox hunting, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "Red Fox Horn", "The Chase", "Business", "Old and Modern Hounds", "Gray Fox Horn", "George L. F. Birdsong", "'Uncle Wash' Maupin", "Birdsong and Maupin Dogs", "Letters from Famous Hunters", "'Dicks Dog'", "Jake", "Annie", "H. C. Trigg's Residence", "National Meet", "Buying and Selling", etc. This book was first published in 1890 and many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the foxhound.
Book Synopsis Foxhunting with Meadow Brook by : Judith Tabler
Download or read book Foxhunting with Meadow Brook written by Judith Tabler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foxhunting with Meadow Brook on Long Island, New York, was always about more than the fox, the hounds, or the horses. Meadow Brook was about its people—some powerful, some idle, many wealthy—and their shared joy in galloping across beautiful country, only minutes outside New York City. Doomed from its 1881 conception, the Meadow Brook hunt managed to survive for ninety years in spite of poor scenting, sandy soil, angry farmers, quirky millionaires, trolleys, trains, automobiles, and airplanes. Foxhunting withMeadow Brook tells the story of the people who, for almost a century, rode behind the Meadow Brook hounds.
Book Synopsis Fox Hunting in America by : Allen Potts
Download or read book Fox Hunting in America written by Allen Potts and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fox Hunting in America Fox hunting in America, as well as in Great Britain, had its beginning around the year 1700. In England long before that time, and indeed as early as 1611, the fox was hunted by the farmer and the petty squire, but the pursuit was really sport and was treated with great contempt by the sportsmen of those days, who held that stag hounds gave royal recreation and that the chase of the hare came next in importance. In America, however (and when I say America, I speak of the colonies of Virginia and Maryland for those early days), the sport of hunting any animal with hounds cannot very well have taken place until the end of the seventeenth century (1690) for the reason that the first settlements were upon the banks of streams, and for many years thereafter there were no fields over which hounds could run and, indeed, the settlers possessed neither hounds nor horses, even if the country had been adapted to hunting. The colony in Virginia, founded at Jamestown in 1607, was almost swept away by the great massacre in 1622, and for a year thereafter the colonists lived within stockades. never daring to wander beyond sight of a primitive fort. There is no record that fox hounds existed in the colony at that time and, indeed, the records of the Virginia Company from 1619 to 1624 contained no mention of foxes, or hounds, or of hunting. In Maryland, where the first settlement was founded at St. Mary's, near the present site of Annapolis, in 1634, the same state of affairs existed, and it seems, therefore, hardly probable that the statement made in Outing of October, 1897, by Mr. Hanson Hiss, in his very interesting article. "The Beginning of Fox Hunting in America," to the effect that in Queen Anne County the first fox hunt in America took place in the year 1650, is correct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers by : Thad Sitton
Download or read book Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers written by Thad Sitton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around a campfire in the woods through long hours of night, men used to gather to listen to the music of hounds’ voices as they chased an elusive and seemingly preternatural fox. To the highly trained ears of these backwoods hunters, the hounds told the story of the pursuit like operatic voices chanting a great epic. Although the hunt almost always ended in the escape of the fox—as the hunters hoped it would—the thrill of the chase made the men feel “that they [were] close to something lost and never to be found, just as one can feel something in a great poem or a dream.” Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers offers a colorful account of this vanishing American folkway—back-country fox hunting known as “hilltopping,” “moonlighting,” “fox racing,” or “one-gallus fox hunting.” Practiced neither for blood sport nor to put food on the table, hilltopping was worlds removed from elite fox hunting where red- and black-coated horsemen thundered across green fields in daylight. Hilltopping was a nocturnal, even mystical pursuit, uniting men across social and racial lines as they gathered to listen to dogs chasing foxes over miles of ground until the sun rose. Engaged in by thousands of rural and small-town Americans from the 1860s to the 1980s, hilltopping encouraged a quasi-spiritual identification of man with animal that bound its devotees into a “brotherhood of blood and cause” and made them seem almost crazy to outsiders.
Book Synopsis Six Centuries of Foxhunting by : M. L. Biscotti
Download or read book Six Centuries of Foxhunting written by M. L. Biscotti and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunting literature had its beginnings as early as the fourteenth century, when nobles hunted stag, bear, fox, and other game on horseback. As foxhunting grew in popularity, literary works that covered the sport flourished, as well. In Six Centuries of Foxhunting: An Annotated Bibliography, M. L. Biscotti has compiled all books produced in Great Britain and the United States that pertain to, or mention, foxhunting with hounds. Arranged alphabetically by author, more than 2000 titles are included. Each entry features details such as place and year of publication, publisher, book size, page count, illustrations, and binding. Nearly every title is also annotated with a description of the book’s contents, and biographical sketches are provided for the most notable authors. Narratives, histories, illustrated works, verse, fiction, and even anti-hunting literature all have their place in this volume. Six Centuries of Foxhunting also features more than thirty images of book covers and foxhunting illustrations. With appendixes that contain author, title, and illustrator time lines, and separate author and title indexes, this comprehensive bibliography is a valuable resource for researchers, book dealers and collectors, and foxhunters.
Book Synopsis The Hunts of the United States and Canada by : Alexander Henry Higginson
Download or read book The Hunts of the United States and Canada written by Alexander Henry Higginson and published by Boston : F.L. Wiles. This book was released on 1908 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Foxhunting in North America by : Alexander Mackay-Smith
Download or read book Foxhunting in North America written by Alexander Mackay-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hunting in the United States and Canada by : Alexander Henry Higginson
Download or read book Hunting in the United States and Canada written by Alexander Henry Higginson and published by Garden City [N.Y.] : Doubleday, Doran. This book was released on 1928 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Iroquois Hunt: A Bluegrass Foxhunting Tradition by : Christopher Oakford
Download or read book The Iroquois Hunt: A Bluegrass Foxhunting Tradition written by Christopher Oakford and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded near Lexington, Kentucky, in 1880--and refounded in 1926--the Iroquois Hunt Club is a small club at the heart of the Bluegrass. Its history, however, is populated by vivid characters with strong links to some of America's most influential figures and most important movements of the last 120 years. Members participated in the Black Hills Gold Rush of the 1870s, the fight for women's right to vote in the early 1900s, Theodore Roosevelt's creation of national parks and the building of the Grand Coulee Dam. At home in the Bluegrass, they also contributed mightily to the development of modern Lexington and were key figures in founding the iconic Keeneland Racecourse and in a number of historic Thoroughbred nurseries, including Calumet and the Whitney farm. Authors Christopher and Glenye Oakford retrace the storied past of an influential group.
Book Synopsis Horse and Hound by : Roger D. Williams
Download or read book Horse and Hound written by Roger D. Williams and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains a complete guide to hunting, with information on equipment, history and origins, riding, training hounds, and much more. Although old, much of the information contained within this book is timeless and will be of considerable utility to the modern sportsman today. Contents include: "Hunting", "The Hunter", "Schooling of Hunts", "Cross-Country Riding", "Falls", "In The Field", "Women in the Field", "Scent", "The Fox", "Tricks and Habits of the Fox", "The Hound", "History and Origin American Hound", "Breeding and Rearing Hounds", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. This volume is being republished now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of fox hunting.
Book Synopsis Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages by : Joseph Brown Thomas
Download or read book Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages written by Joseph Brown Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
