Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, Decoys, and Long Guns
Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, Decoys, and Long Guns

Author: C. John Sullivan

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781596294622

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Carroll's Island is one of many places along the Chesapeake Bay where vibrant stories of dogs, decoys, guns and waterfowl resonate up from the shoreline. The stories from Carroll's Island Ducking Club, which was founded in the mid-nineteenth century, offer special insights about the Chesapeake Bay's waterfowling heritage. In this warm, informative book, C. John Sullivan Jr., one of the nation's leading decoy collectors and scholars, documents the development of the Chesapeake Bay retriever and how gunners once devised decoys and new firearms and enjoyed the bounty of the Chesapeake Bay. Eventually Carroll's Island Ducking Club would disappear, but its legacy can still be seen today in the role members played in establishing the Chesapeake Bay retriever as Maryland's state dog.

Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, Decoys & Long Guns
Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, Decoys & Long Guns

Author: C. John Sullivan Jr.

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008-03-14

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1625843879

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Carroll's Island is one of many places along the Chesapeake Bay where vibrant stories of dogs, decoys, guns and waterfowl resonate up from the shoreline. The stories from Carroll's Island Ducking Club, which was founded in the mid-nineteenth century, offer special insights about the Chesapeake Bay's waterfowling heritage. In this warm, informative book, C. John Sullivan Jr., one of the nation's

Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, Decoys & Long Guns: Tales of Carroll's Island Ducking Club
Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, Decoys & Long Guns: Tales of Carroll's Island Ducking Club

Author: C. John Sullivan Jr

Publisher: History Press Library Editions

Published: 2008-03

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781540218698

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Carroll s Island is one of many places along the Chesapeake Bay where vibrant stories of dogs, decoys, guns and waterfowl resonate up from the shoreline. The stories from Carroll s Island Ducking Club, which was founded in the mid-nineteenth century, offer special insights about the Chesapeake Bay s waterfowling heritage. In this warm, informative book, C. John Sullivan Jr., one of the nation s leading decoy collectors and scholars, documents the development of the Chesapeake Bay retriever and how gunners once devised decoys and new firearms and enjoyed the bounty of the Chesapeake Bay. Eventually Carroll s Island Ducking Club would disappear, but its legacy can still be seen today in the role members played in establishing the Chesapeake Bay retriever as Maryland s state dog."

Waterfowling on the Chesapeake, 1819-1936
Waterfowling on the Chesapeake, 1819-1936

Author: C. John Sullivan

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2003-05-02

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780801871559

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Part documentary, part nostalgic history, and part informational catalogue, Waterfowling on the Chesapeake, 1819–1936 explores a century of hunting on the Chesapeake Bay and its major tributaries—from the heyday of gun clubs and market shooting to the rise of conservation law. Drawing on oral histories and period documents and artifacts, C. John Sullivan, a longtime collector of decoys and hunting paraphernalia and a frequent guest curator of exhibits, looks at the effects of technological change, the relationship between hunter and dog, the recognition of decoys as folk art, and the history of hunting. He also introduces us to famous and lesser-known carvers and others who share an enthusiasm for this feature of Chesapeake cultural history and life.

Ward Allen
Ward Allen

Author: John Cay Jr.

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2014-02-25

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 099145250X

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Unnumbered plates are from the movie Savannah based on this book.

Chesapeake Bay Duck Hunting Tales
Chesapeake Bay Duck Hunting Tales

Author: C.L. Marshall

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 1

ISBN-13: 1467137286

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"It takes stubborn dedication and passionate optimism to brave the frosty, wet conditions for the chance to shoot ducks and geese. And yet the tradition continues every year as more than one million waterfowl occupy the waters of the Chesapeake. Whether you are setting decoys or watching the sun rise from a blind, hunting the bay is as challenging as it is rewarding. No one understands that better than the generations who have experienced it, from the goose pits of Rock Hall and Chestertown to the frothing whitewater of the Tangier Sound. Join author and hunter C.L. Marshall as he recounts more than forty years of stories and anecdotes chock-full of dogs, good friends and fast-paced waterfowl action"--

How to Hunt Birds with Gun Dogs
How to Hunt Birds with Gun Dogs

Author: Bill Tarrant

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2002-12

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780811724852

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Now in paperback. Proven, humane dog-handling methods. Detailed description of the quarry, its habitat, and its characteristics.

Across the River and Into the Trees
Across the River and Into the Trees

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-05-22

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1476770034

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In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for Across the River and into the Trees, the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. A poignant, bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the worldweary beauty and majesty of Venice, Across the River and into the Trees stands as Hemingway's statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War. Hemingway's last full-length novel published in his lifetime, it moved John O'Hara in The New York Times Book Review to call him “the most important author since Shakespeare.”