Download or read book The Cow Hunter written by Charles Hudson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poor Scottish immigrant finds work and Shakespearean drama on a ranch in the backcountry of colonial South Carolina in this novel. Vividly set in the rich pluralistic culture and primeval landscape of colonial South Carolina, this historical novel brings to life, and back into our memory, the birth of free-range cattle herding that would later come to be associated exclusively with the American West. Drawing on his accomplished career as a leading scholar of the anthropology and history of the early South, Charles Hudson weaves a compelling tale of adventure and love in the colorful tapestry of Charles Town taverns, backcountry trails, pinewoods cattle ranges, hidden villages of remnant native peoples, river highways, rice plantations, and more. Hudson’s narrative revolves around William MacGregor, a young Scottish immigrant trying to establish himself in the New World. A lover of philosophy and Shakespeare, William is penniless, which leads him to take work as a cow-hunter (colonial cowboy) for a pinder (colonial rancher) of a cowpen (colonial ranch) in the Carolina backcountry. The pinder, an older man with three daughters, sees his world unraveling as he ages. The parallel to King Lear does not escape William, who gets caught up in the family drama as he falls in love with the pinder’s youngest daughter. Except for the boss of his crew, who is the pinder’s son-in-law, William’s fellow cow-hunters are slaves: an old Indian captured in Spanish Florida, a Fulani captured in Africa, and two brothers, half-Indian and half-African, who were born into slavery in the New World. A rogue bull adds a chilling element of danger, and the romance is complicated by a rivalry with a wealthy rice planter’s son. William struggles to salvage something from the increasingly disastrous situation, and the King Lear-like dissolution of the cowpen proceeds apace as the story heads toward its conclusion. “With an ethnohistorian’s attention to context and detail, Charles Hudson has written a compelling novel about the eighteenth-century Carolina backcountry and its memorable characters, the likes of whom the documentary record rarely reveals.” —Theda Perdue, professor emerita of history, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill “Whether trudging through the dismal swamps, riding through the solitary longleaf forest, or just hanging out at the cowpen, Hudson renders the life of an eighteenth-century Southern cow hunter’s life palatable and real. With a true sense of place and time, Hudson brings the little-known colonial South Carolina backcountry to spectacular life.” —Robbie Ethridge, professor of anthropology, The University of Mississippi

Download or read book The Legacy of the Florida Pioneer Cow Hunters written by Nancy Dale and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Florida pioneer cow hunters gave birth to the cattle industry. Florida, discovered by Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon in the 1500s, left behind cattle that roamed the peninsula hundreds of years. In the 1800s, new settlers gathered-up the scrub cattle and bred them with their herds. As cracker whips snapped, cow hunters rounded-up their herds and drove them by the thousands to coastal markets on the old cracker trails. It was a dangerous passage. The legendary cow hunters are todays ranchers. This book is about the past and the future of ranching in Florida as a new generation takes over the reins with some heirs choosing another profession and selling the family ranch. I hope the reader will reflect upon the valuable lessons these ranchers reveal about history and survival.

Download or read book Florida Cow Hunter written by Jim Bob Tinsley and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 1990 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Recounts a time when range wars, cattle drives, rustling, street brawls, and rum running were commonplace in Florida. Though the focus is on Mizell, Tinsley also gives an engaging history of Florida and the cattle industry."--Tampa Tribune

Download or read book Kissimmee Pete Cracker Cow Hunter written by Day, Jan and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kissimmee Pete, his dog Mud, and his horse Blaze work together to gather a cow herd "as big as the sky."

Download or read book Hollis Webb written by Carl D. King and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Florida Cow Hunter s Handbook written by Howard S. Jones Jr and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are some phrases and words that are unfamiliar to those outside Florida Cracker Cowboy Country. In this book, Dr. Howard Jones, retired veterinarian, who practiced for 30 years in this area and author of The Green Jeep, seeks to explain some of these terms with the same dry humor common among these special people.

Download or read book The Last Buffalo Hunter written by Jake Mosher and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Montana the story revolves around a reticent but articulate teenager who spends his fourteenth summer, remanded to the not so gentle care of his profane and outrageous grandfather, Cole, who seems to be waging an unsuccessful one man war against a whole army of fools.

Download or read book Cow Range and Hunting Trail written by Malcolm Sutherland Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fifty Years on the Old Frontier as Cowboy Hunter Guide Scout and Ranchman written by James Henry Cook and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The keen-eyed, cool-headed, and fearless men (Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill Cody, Big Foot Wallace, and Captain Jim Cook, among others) who were pivotal personalities for more than half a century in the almost ceaseless task of clearing the way for and guarding the lives and properties of explorers, emigrants, and settlers in the West, are an extinct type of pioneer, Accounts of the heroic deeds of this handful of men, however, remain today as indelible records that dramatize the melting away of this country’s vast frontiers.

Download or read book The Still hunter written by Theodore Strong Van Dyke and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Cow Hunter s Lament and Other Stories written by Larry D Sweazy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning novelist Larry D. Sweazy's first published short story collection features eleven western stories, including a new short story, "A Cow Hunter's Lament." Three of the stories, "Rattlesnakes and Skunks," "Lost Mountain Pass," and "Shadow of the Crow," are origin stories for Sweazy's series characters Josiah Wolfe, Trusty Dawson, and Sonny Burton. The stories are traditional westerns with a few that have underlying mysteries, as well as two that have supernatural elements, all written in Sweazy's signature atmospheric style. All of the stories feature western characters challenged by the landscape and loneliness they exist in, overcoming adversity, with a respect for history, along with plenty of expected action.

Download or read book Sacred Cow written by Diana Rodgers and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're told that if we care about our health—or our planet—eliminating red meat from our diets is crucial. That beef is bad for us and cattle farming is horrible for the environment. But science says otherwise. Beef is framed as the most environmentally destructive and least healthy of meats. We're often told that the only solution is to reduce or quit red meat entirely. But despite what anti-meat groups, vegan celebrities, and some health experts say, plant-based agriculture is far from a perfect solution. In Sacred Cow, registered dietitian Diana Rodgers and former research biochemist and New York Times bestselling author Robb Wolf explore the quandaries we face in raising and eating animals—focusing on the largest (and most maligned) of farmed animals, the cow. Taking a critical look at the assumptions and misinformation about meat, Sacred Cow points out the flaws in our current food system and in the proposed "solutions." Inside, Rodgers and Wolf reveal contrarian but science-based findings, such as: • Meat and animal fat are essential for our bodies. • A sustainable food system cannot exist without animals. • A vegan diet may destroy more life than sustainable cattle farming. • Regenerative cattle ranching is one of our best tools at mitigating climate change. You'll also find practical guidance on how to support sustainable farms and a 30-day challenge to help you transition to a healthful and conscientious diet. With scientific rigor, deep compassion, and wit, Rodgers and Wolf argue unequivocally that meat (done right) should have a place on the table. It's not the cow, it's the how!

Download or read book Kissimmee Pete and the Hurricane written by Day, Jan and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1800s, Kissimmee Pete, cracker cow hunter, stands up to a hurricane that threatens his herd of cattle and the people, buildings, animals, and plants of Punta Rassa, Florida. Includes facts about Florida history and hurricanes.

Download or read book The Gaucho Cattle Hunter Cavalryman Ideal of Romance written by Madaline Wallis Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear written by Bruce Grant and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1956 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to making cowboy horse gear includes instructions on bridles, hackamores, reins, reatas, quirts, and riding crops, and features a section by Lee Rice on western saddles.

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Download or read book Facing the Hunter written by David Adams Richards and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Adams Richards takes us behind his gun and into the Canadian forest for his most powerful work of non-fiction yet. In his brilliant non-fiction, David Adams Richards - first and foremost one of Canada's greatest and best-beloved novelists - has been writing a kind of memoir by other means. Like his previous titles Lines On Water, about his pursuit of angling, and Hockey Dreams, about the game his disabled body prevented him from playing, Facing the Hunter explores the meaning of a sport and the way in which it touches lives, not least that of the author. And as with God Is, his recent book about his faith, it is also an impassioned defence of a set of values and a way of life that Richards believes are under attack. Lovers of David Adams Richards' novels will be fascinated and enlightened to note the interplay between his former life as a keen hunter - he hunts less and less these days, as he explains - and the narratives and characters of his fiction. But this is also a perfect starting point for anyone coming new to Richards. The storytelling in this book, the evocation of the Canadian wild and those who venture into it, the sheer power of the prose, show a great writer at the height of his powers.