Texas Market Hunting: Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws

Author:   R K Sawyer
Publisher:   Eakin Press
ISBN:  

9781681793719


Pages:   198
Publication Date:   03 June 2024
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Our Price $71.25 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Texas Market Hunting: Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws


Add your own review!

Overview

In this book, R. K. Sawyer chronicles the days of market hunting along the Texas coast and the showdown between the early game wardens and those who persisted in commercial waterfowl hunting. Containing an abundance of rare historical photographs and oral history, Texas Market Hunting: Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws provides a comprehensive and colorful account of this bygone period. From its earliest days of human habitation, the Texas coast was home to seemingly endless clouds of ducks, geese, swans, and shorebirds. By the 1880s Texas huntsmen, or market hunters, as they came to be called, began providing meat and plumage for the restaurant tables and millinery salons of a rapidly growing nation. A network of suppliers, packers, distribution centers, and shipping hubs efficiently handled their immense harvest. At the peak of Texas market hunting in the late 1890s, Rockport merchants shipped an average of 600 ducks a day in a five-month shooting season, and in the last year of legal market hunting, an estimated 60,000 ducks and geese were shipped from Corpus Christi alone.

Full Product Details

Author:   R K Sawyer
Publisher:   Eakin Press
Imprint:   Eakin Press
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9781681793719


ISBN 10:   1681793717
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   03 June 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Table of Contents

Reviews

"""Even though market hunting has been illegal for quite some time, and appropriately so, it remains nostalgic and perhaps somewhat romantic for many waterfowl hunters. Sawyer's work takes us back to that time and provides us a glimpse of an era of abundant waterfowl and vast marshes and estuaries. Market hunting has been covered for some other areas but not for Texas; this treatise fills that void. Learning of this history may cause us to wish to hunt these areas today as a connection to our past, and that would be a great adventure.""-Michael E. Berger, retired wildlife division director, Texas Parks and Wildlife ""This book does a thorough job of capturing an era in Texas that no one wants to talk about. This book will make a significant contribution to the understanding of when and why wildlife conservation became important in the hearts and minds of Texas sportsmen.""-Fred C. Bryant, director, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University in Kingsville ""The stories in this book have been told for years over breakfast buffets in small Texas towns, but never so vividly or accurately. They document without prejudice a fascinating subculture that operated legally and otherwise for so long as the resources allowed and until enforcement gained the upper hand. As an avid Texas waterfowl hunter and former guide, turning these pages comes as naturally as tossing decoys or whistling to incoming pintails.""--Doug Pike, host, The Doug Pike Show"


Author Information

R.K. Sawyer has been a waterfowl hunter since 1964, the seeds of his lifelong passion sown on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. He currently resides in Sugar Land, Texas, with his wife Wendy and Matagorda Mattie, a black Labrador Retriever. A retired petroleum geologist, Rob has since been working with waterfowl habitat projects and freelance writing. He is the author of four historical hunting books: A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting (2012), Texas Market Hunting (2013), Images of the Hunt (2020), and The Tarpon Club of Texas (2022) and numerous magazine articles.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

lgn

al

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List