Texas Forgotten Ports Volume 1 Mid Gulf Ports From Corpus Christi To Matagorda Bay
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Texas Forgotten Ports Volume 1 Mid Gulf Ports From Corpus Christi To Matagorda Bay
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Author : Keith Guthrie
language : en
Publisher: Eakin Press
Release Date : 2015-10-15
Texas Forgotten Ports Volume 1 Mid Gulf Ports From Corpus Christi To Matagorda Bay written by Keith Guthrie and has been published by Eakin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-15 with History categories.
Veteran newspaper publisher Keith Guthrie, always fascinated by the stories of old ports in his native South Texas, launched an in-depth study of the Gulf of Mexico ports from Corpus Christi on the south to Matagorda Bay when he retired from the newspaper business in Taft, only a stone's throw from the Gulf of Mexico. "Texas' Forgotten Ports" includes a study of Corpus Christi and Aransas Bay, San Antonio Bay, and Matagorda Bay. In addition to Corpus Christi, ports still exist al Aransas Pass, Rockport, and Portland. Those that have passed into oblivion include El Capano, Aransas City, St. Mary's of Aransas, Lamar, Port Preston, Black Point, Sharpsburg, Mesquite Landing, Matagorda, Linnville, Cox's Point, Dimmitt's Landing, Lavaca, Indianola, Saluria, and several small river ports.
Texas Forgotten Ports Mid Gulf Coast Ports From Corpus Christi To Matagorda Bay
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Author : Keith Guthrie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988-01-01
Texas Forgotten Ports Mid Gulf Coast Ports From Corpus Christi To Matagorda Bay written by Keith Guthrie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with History categories.
Texas Forgotten Ports
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Author : Keith Guthrie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988-01-01
Texas Forgotten Ports written by Keith Guthrie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with History categories.
The mid-Gulf ports from Corpus Christi to Matagorda Bay
Texas Market Hunting
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Author : R.K. Sawyer
language : en
Publisher: Eakin Press
Release Date : 2024-08-05
Texas Market Hunting written by R.K. Sawyer and has been published by Eakin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-05 with Sports & Recreation categories.
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. Market men employed efficient methods to harvest nature’s bounty. They commonly hunted at night, often using bait to concentrate large numbers of waterfowl. The effectiveness of the hunt was improved when side-by-side double barrel shotguns and large-gauge swivel guns gave way to repeating firearms, with some capable of discharging as many as eleven shells in a single volley. Their methods were so efficient that, by the late 1800s, Texas sportsmen and others blamed the alarming decline of coastal waterfowl populations on the market hunter’s occupation. In 1903, after a long fight and many failures, the first migratory bird game law passed the Texas legislature. Though the fight would continue, it was the beginning of the end of the year-round slaughter. Most market hunters quit, and those who didn’t became outlaws. 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.
A Hundred Years Of Texas Waterfowl Hunting
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Author : R.K. Sawyer
language : en
Publisher: Eakin Press
Release Date : 2024-08-05
A Hundred Years Of Texas Waterfowl Hunting written by R.K. Sawyer and has been published by Eakin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-05 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The days are gone when seemingly limitless numbers of canvasbacks, mallards, and Canada geese filled the skies above the Texas coast. Gone too are the days when, in a single morning, hunters often harvested ducks, shorebirds, and other waterfowl by the hundreds. The hundred-year period from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century brought momentous changes in attitudes and game laws: changes initially prompted by sportsmen who witnessed the disappearance of both the birds and their spectacular habitat. These changes forever affected the state’s storied hunting culture. Yet, as R. K. Sawyer discovered, the rich lore and reminiscences of the era’s hunters and guides who plied the marshy haunts from Beaumont to Brownsville, though fading, remain a colorful and essential part of the Texas outdoor heritage. Gleaned from interviews with sportsmen and guides of decades past as well as meticulous research in news archives, Sawyer’s vivid documentation of Texas’ deep-rooted waterfowl hunting tradition is accompanied by a superb collection of historical and modern photographs. By preserving this account of a way of life and a coastal environment that have both mostly vanished, A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting also pays tribute to the efforts of all those who fought to ensure that Texas’ waterfowl legacy would endure. This book will aid their efforts in championing the preservation of waterfowl and wetland resources for the benefit of future generations.
William Edmondson Grumble Jones
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Author : James Buchanan Ballard
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-10-12
William Edmondson Grumble Jones written by James Buchanan Ballard and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-12 with History categories.
William Edmondson "Grumble" Jones (b. 1824) stands among the most notable Southwest Virginians to fight in the Civil War. The Washington County native graduated from Emory & Henry College and West Point. As a lieutenant in the "Old Army" between service in Oregon and Texas, he watched helplessly as his wife drowned during the wreck of the steamship Independence. He resigned his commission in 1857. Resuming his military career as a Confederate officer, he mentored the legendary John Singleton Mosby. His many battles included a clash with George Armstrong Custer near Gettysburg. An internal dispute with his commanding general, J.E.B. Stuart, resulted in Jones's court-martial conviction in 1863. Following a series of campaigns in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, he returned to the Shenandoah Valley and died in battle in 1864, leaving a mixed legacy.
America History And Life
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
America History And Life written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Canada categories.
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Southwestern Historical Quarterly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Southwest, New categories.
Texas Forgotten Ports
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Author : Keith Guthrie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-01-01
Texas Forgotten Ports written by Keith Guthrie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with History categories.
River ports on the Red, Brazos, and Rio Grande rivers
Arts Humanities Citation Index
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Arts Humanities Citation Index written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Arts categories.