Description |
1 online resource (vi, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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Fire ant books
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Fire ant books.
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918-2017.
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Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918-2017. |
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Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918-2017 -- Family.
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Families. |
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Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918- -- Family. |
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Pioneers -- Alabama -- Baldwin County -- Biography.
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Pioneers. |
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Alabama -- Baldwin County. |
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Biographies.
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Country life -- Alabama -- Mobile-Tensaw Delta.
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Country life. |
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Alabama -- Mobile-Tensaw Delta. |
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Outdoor life -- Alabama -- Mobile-Tensaw Delta.
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Outdoor life. |
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Swamps -- Alabama -- Mobile-Tensaw Delta.
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Swamps. |
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Baldwin County (Ala.) -- Social life and customs.
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Mobile-Tensaw Delta (Ala.) -- Social life and customs.
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Baldwin County (Ala.) -- Biography.
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Mobile-Tensaw Delta (Ala.) -- Biography.
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Electronic books.
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Computer network resources.
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Biographies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918- Gone to the swamp. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007050824 |
ISBN |
9780817380694 (electronic) |
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0817380698 (electronic) |
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9780817354947 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0817354948 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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