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Book An Outdoor Sporting Life

Download or read book An Outdoor Sporting Life written by Scott Irwin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Irwin grew up in a time when children did chores that instilled a hands-on work ethic, but there was still time to explore the wild things. Armed first with a slingshot carefully crafted from a forked box elder limb and powered by pre-WWII red rubber inner tube strips, he was soon using a Daisy BB gun to hunt backyard critters. He also enjoyed small-water fishing. By age twelve, he was stalking squirrels and cottontails, and it wasnt long before hed mastered a tack-driving Remington 511 .22 with five-shot clip that thinned out the jackrabbits that swarmed southwest Kansas in the 1950s. Later, hed buy a Winchester Model 12 that opened up a whole new realm of wing shooting. It was a love affair that would continue through marriage, graduate school, and a distinguished career as a public school and university teacherall the way until retirement. Hed also write a popular column about his outdoor adventures for The Emporia Gazette, and he shares his greatest, wildest adventures across the Kansas Flint Hills, Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, South Dakota, and West Texas in An Outdoor Sporting Life.

Book This Sporting Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Colls
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 0198208332
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book This Sporting Life written by Robert Colls and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Sporting Life offers an important view of England's cultural history through its sporting pursuits, carrying the reader to a match or a hunt or a fight, viscerally drawing a portrait of the sounds and smells, and showing that sport has been as important in defining British culture as gender, politics, education, class, and religion.

Book History Afield

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert C Willging
  • Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
  • Release : 2012-08-22
  • ISBN : 0870205706
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book History Afield written by Robert C Willging and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of sportsmen past come to life in History Afield, an account of the many and varied sporting pursuits that are part of the Wisconsin tradition. Author and outdoorsman Robert Willging shares more than two dozen tales of Wisconsin sporting history, highlighting the hunt for waterfowl, upland birds, and deer; trout fishing in wild north Wisconsin rivers; and recreating at early Wisconsin lakeside resorts. Anecdotes of fishing exploits on our plentiful waterways and presidential visits to northern Wisconsin reveal a unique slice of sporting culture, and chapters on live decoys and the American Water Spaniel demonstrate the human-animal bond that has played such a large part in that history. Tales of nature’s fury include a detailed account of the famous Armistice Day storm, as well as the dangers of ice fishing on Lake Superior. These historical musings and perspectives on sporting ethos provide a strong sense of the lifestyle that Willging has preserved for our new century. Featuring first-hand interviews and a variety of historic photos depicting the Wisconsin sporting life, History Afield shows how the intimate relationship between humans and nature shaped this important part of the state’s heritage.

Book The Sporting Life

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  • Author : Charles Porterfield
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-05-14
  • ISBN : 9780996147125
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book The Sporting Life written by Charles Porterfield and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter into the sporting life, the world of prostitutes, pimps, madams, gamblers, bootleggers, and drag queens. From the ritzy clubs, hidden speakeasies, luxurious brothels, and down-on-their-luck dives of old to the seedy massage parlours and back alleys of today, the sporting life has always intersected with the culture of African-American hoodoo, conjure, and rootwork. Now Professor Porterfield takes you into the clandestine milieu of underworld beliefs and secret practices, and shows the impact that the sporting life has on the world of magic and spirituality. With more than 150 practical spells, charms, recipes, and authentic old-style tricks, The Sporting Life pulls back the velvet curtain that has for too long concealed the life, times, and history of the demimonde. Presenting the magic of the prostitutes of the Bible, the working girls of Storyville and Memphis, the high-stakes bettors, the magnetic madams, the persuasive pimps, the cagey corner dope dealers, and members of oppressed lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender communities of colour ? The Sporting Life is sure to startle your senses and thrill your heart. This exhaustively researched book blows open the hidden world of love, lust, vice, and danger that is the sporting life.

Book The Sporting Life

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  • Author : Nancy Fix Anderson
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2010-02-26
  • ISBN : 0313071489
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Sporting Life written by Nancy Fix Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and intriguing study looks at the way sports both reflected and shaped Victorian society. Just as our own games have a lot to say about modern American culture, so sports are a prism through which we can gain valuable insights into Victorian society. The Sporting Life: Victorian Sports and Games is an engaging and perceptive account of how sport developed during Britain's heyday, who played (and who wasn't allowed to play), and what it all conveys about gender, race, imperialism, and national pride. Drawing extensively on 19th-century writings, The Sporting Life begins with a survey of sports in pre-Victorian England and the impact of industrialism in the early 19th century. We read of the effects of evangelicalism and utilitarianism, both of which first opposed sport, then used it for their own purposes. We learn of the association of sports with masculinity, an identification women challenged late in the century. Finally we learn how English sports became part of the imperial game, used to promote—and resist—the spread of Victoria's vast empire.

Book Sports Life Magazine

Download or read book Sports Life Magazine written by Larry Reiche and published by Sports life magazine. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports Life magazine covering all Professional, Extreme & College sports. Sports news that you love! Sports Life magazine's photo and writing Journalists will give you the best there is in the sports magazine industry, Digital and Paperback. Clarity like never before, Illustrations like no other. Years of knowledge and of course, dedication. Thank you for visiting.

Book Sports Life Magazine January 2023

Download or read book Sports Life Magazine January 2023 written by Sports Life Magazine and published by Sports life magazine. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports Life magazine covering all Professional, Extreme & College sports. Sports news that you love! Sports Life magazine's photo and writing Journalists will give you the best there is in the sports magazine industry, Digital and Paperback. Clarity like never before, Illustrations like no other. Years of knowledge and of course, dedication. Thank you for visiting.

Book Lynn Bogue Hunt

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin C. Shelly
  • Publisher : Derrydale Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781564162052
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Lynn Bogue Hunt written by Kevin C. Shelly and published by Derrydale Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the artist complete with samples of his work which included Field & Stream covers, LL Bean catalogs, glassware and ceramics.

Book Aiken s Sporting Life

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  • Author : Jane Page Thompson
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2016-01-25
  • ISBN : 1439655448
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Aiken s Sporting Life written by Jane Page Thompson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1869, newspaper articles touted Aiken as a health and pleasure resort with the world's largest wooden hotel. Swirling social life and sporting action continued during the war years, when the women of society carried on local traditions. In 1950, Aiken was bustling with scientists and engineers who relocated to work at the Savannah River Site. The last half of the 20th century saw swelling crowds at polo matches, steeplechase races, fox hunts, golf courses, and cultural amusements. In the early 21st century, many Aiken sporting traditions mark milestone anniversaries. At the center of everything is Hitchcock Woods, a woodland paradise, pine-topped cathedral, and equestrian playground that remains open year-round. The Hitchcock Woods Foundation was established to safeguard this treasure within the heart of Aiken. The Aiken Horse Show, held each spring, and Blessing of the Hounds, held on Thanksgiving, are two of the most revered of Aiken's sporting traditions.

Book The Irish and the Making of American Sport  1835 1920

Download or read book The Irish and the Making of American Sport 1835 1920 written by Patrick R. Redmond and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-07 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerrold Casway coined the phrase "The Emerald Age of Baseball" to describe the 1890s, when so many Irish names dominated teams' rosters. But one can easily agree--and expand--that the period from the mid-1830s well into the first decade of the 20th century and assign the term to American sports in general. This book covers the Irish sportsman from the arrival of James "Deaf" Burke in 1836 through to Jack B. Kelly's rejection by Henley regatta and his subsequent gold medal at the 1920 Olympics. It avoids recounting the various victories and defeats of the Irish sportsman, seeking instead to deal with the complex interaction that he had with alcohol, gambling and Sunday leisure: pleasures that were banned in most of America at some time or other between 1836 and 1920. This book also covers the Irish sportsman's close relations with politicians, his role in labor relations, his violent lifestyle--and by contrast--his participation in bringing respectability to sport. It also deals with native Irish sports in America, the part played by the Irish in "Team USA's" initial international sporting ventures, and in the making and breaking of amateurism within sport.

Book Outing  Sport  Adventure  Travel  Fiction

Download or read book Outing Sport Adventure Travel Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Routledge Handbook of Sports Journalism

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Sports Journalism written by Rob Steen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Sports Journalism is a comprehensive and in-depth survey of the fast-moving and multifaceted world of sports journalism. Encompassing historical and contemporary analysis, and case studies exploring best practice as well as cutting edge themes and issues, the book also represents an impassioned defence of the skill and art of the trained journalist in an era of unmediated digital commentary. With contributions from leading sports-media scholars and practising journalists, the book examines journalism across print, broadcast and digital media, exploring the everyday reality of working as a contemporary reporter, editor or sub-editor. It considers the organisations that shape output, from PR departments to press agencies, as well as the socio-political themes that influence both content and process, such as identity, race and gender. The book also includes interviews with, and biographies of, well-known journalists, as well as case studies looking at the way that some of the biggest names in world sport, from Lance Armstrong to Caster Semenya, have been reported. This is essential reading for all students, researchers and professionals working in sports journalism, sports broadcasting, sports marketing and management, or the sociology or history of sport.

Book Britain and the Olympic Games  1908 1920

Download or read book Britain and the Olympic Games 1908 1920 written by Luke J. Harris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain and the Olympic Games, 1908-1920 focuses upon the presentation and descriptions of identity that are presented through the depictions of the Olympics in the national press. This book breaks Britain down into its four nations and presents the debates that were present within their national press.

Book History Afield

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert C Willging
  • Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
  • Release : 2011-08
  • ISBN : 0870204297
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book History Afield written by Robert C Willging and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of sportsmen past come to life in History Afield, an account of the many and varied sporting pursuits that are part of the Wisconsin tradition. Author and outdoorsman Robert Willging shares more than two dozen tales of Wisconsin sporting history, highlighting the hunt for waterfowl, upland birds, and deer; trout fishing in wild north Wisconsin rivers; and recreating at early Wisconsin lakeside resorts. Featuring first-hand interviews and a variety of historic photos depicting the Wisconsin sporting life, History Afield shows how the intimate relationship between humans and nature shaped this important part of the state's heritage.

Book American Sporting Periodicals

Download or read book American Sporting Periodicals written by M. L. Biscotti and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive listing of American field sports periodicals, beginning in 1829. It includes information such as the magazine’s title, years of publication, frequency of issue, publisher, and general content. American Sporting Periodicals is a valuable reference tool for collectors and researchers of field sports in America.

Book Store Windows 16 INTL

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Pegler
  • Publisher : Visual Reference Publications
  • Release : 2008-07-29
  • ISBN : 9781584711247
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Store Windows 16 INTL written by Martin Pegler and published by Visual Reference Publications. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retail sector.