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Author Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918-2017.

Title Gone to the swamp : raw materials for the good life in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta / Robert Leslie Smith.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2008]
©2008

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (vi, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Fire ant books
Fire ant books.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Gone to the Swamp; The Skin Game; The Public Timber Inspector; Oxen and the Men Who Drove Them; High Water Logging; Rafting and Loading Gunboats; Work of the Blacksmith; A Personal Note; Work of the Sawyer; Camp Life; Night Rafting; Kingfisher; The Yupon; Aunt Violet Boston; River Tale; Wildcats; Lost in the Swamp; Fear Strikes the Bend; Swamp Tale; The Kennedy Mills; Sawmill Tales; Sawmill Tales Continued; Logging in Blakeley Battleground; Mechanized Logging; Flatboats; Stockton Boat Ways; Latter Day Watermen; Latter Day Pullboating.
Summary In the hinterland behind the port of Mobile lies the vast swampy convergence of the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers, a delta rich in fish, game animals, hard and softwood resources, and the beauty and solitude of the wild & ndash; but also rich in varmints big and little, including some human ones, and the manifold dangers of a world where land, sky, and water seem to blend together and one can become lost 100 paces in any direction, if not drowned or devoured first. To make a living here, one had to be capable, confident, clever and inventive, know a lot about survival, be able to fashion and repair.
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Subject Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918-2017.
Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918-2017.
Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918-2017 -- Family.
Families.
Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918- -- Family.
Pioneers -- Alabama -- Baldwin County -- Biography.
Pioneers.
Alabama -- Baldwin County.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Country life -- Alabama -- Mobile-Tensaw Delta.
Country life.
Alabama -- Mobile-Tensaw Delta.
Outdoor life -- Alabama -- Mobile-Tensaw Delta.
Outdoor life.
Swamps -- Alabama -- Mobile-Tensaw Delta.
Swamps.
Baldwin County (Ala.) -- Social life and customs.
Mobile-Tensaw Delta (Ala.) -- Social life and customs.
Baldwin County (Ala.) -- Biography.
Mobile-Tensaw Delta (Ala.) -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Computer network resources.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918- Gone to the swamp. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007050824
ISBN 9780817380694 (electronic)
0817380698 (electronic)
9780817354947 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0817354948 (paperback ; alkaline paper)