Author: Donna Tonelli
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764316432
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A wonderful collection of fine decoys and calls from the Great Lakes region, shown in over 1100 color photographs, along with original vintage black and white photos, extensive related literature, and a price guide. This valuable reference book includes pieces ranging from the finest museum-quality artifacts to collectibles that are more likely to turn up at a local auction, garage sale, flea market, or antique mall. An extensive bibliography and appendix provide valuable sources for information, organizations, periodicals, and auction companies.
Fish and Fowl Decoys of the Great Lakes
Author: Donna Tonelli
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764316432
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A wonderful collection of fine decoys and calls from the Great Lakes region, shown in over 1100 color photographs, along with original vintage black and white photos, extensive related literature, and a price guide. This valuable reference book includes pieces ranging from the finest museum-quality artifacts to collectibles that are more likely to turn up at a local auction, garage sale, flea market, or antique mall. An extensive bibliography and appendix provide valuable sources for information, organizations, periodicals, and auction companies.
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764316432
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A wonderful collection of fine decoys and calls from the Great Lakes region, shown in over 1100 color photographs, along with original vintage black and white photos, extensive related literature, and a price guide. This valuable reference book includes pieces ranging from the finest museum-quality artifacts to collectibles that are more likely to turn up at a local auction, garage sale, flea market, or antique mall. An extensive bibliography and appendix provide valuable sources for information, organizations, periodicals, and auction companies.
La Crosse Fish Decoys
Author: Donald J. Petersen
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504382242
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
La Crosse Fish Decoys is the first and only book covering this subject matter. It should interest fish decoy collectors, hobbyists, fishermen, and anyone interested in a hobby that has a solid financial return. The heyday for spearfishing in La Crosse, Wisconsin, was 1890 until 1938, when spearfishing was banned in that region. Thus given the age of the decoys used, little is known concerning their makers. Indeed, all of the known La Crosse fish decoy makers are deceased. This book is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 provides a brief history of the La Crosse region from its earliest days until the present time with emphasis, when appropriate, to the sport of spearfishing. Chapter 2 discusses the development of the technique of spearfishing from its Asian origins and contrasts the American Indian approach to spearing to the white mens modification of it. In Chapter 3,The Mississippi River is discussed and its effects on spearing in the La Crosse Reach. The heart of the book is Chapter 4, when seventy-one known La Crosse decoy makers biographies are presented along the discussion of their decoys, not to mention, photographic examples of their work. Chapter 5 gives a photographic review of fish decoys which imitate actual fish species. Chapter 6 provides photographic example of La Crosse spears used by fishermen, and documents both known and unknown speak makers. Finally, Chapter 7 reviews La Crosse cheater decoys, jig sticks, lures, and decoy-holding boxes to round out the book.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504382242
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
La Crosse Fish Decoys is the first and only book covering this subject matter. It should interest fish decoy collectors, hobbyists, fishermen, and anyone interested in a hobby that has a solid financial return. The heyday for spearfishing in La Crosse, Wisconsin, was 1890 until 1938, when spearfishing was banned in that region. Thus given the age of the decoys used, little is known concerning their makers. Indeed, all of the known La Crosse fish decoy makers are deceased. This book is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 provides a brief history of the La Crosse region from its earliest days until the present time with emphasis, when appropriate, to the sport of spearfishing. Chapter 2 discusses the development of the technique of spearfishing from its Asian origins and contrasts the American Indian approach to spearing to the white mens modification of it. In Chapter 3,The Mississippi River is discussed and its effects on spearing in the La Crosse Reach. The heart of the book is Chapter 4, when seventy-one known La Crosse decoy makers biographies are presented along the discussion of their decoys, not to mention, photographic examples of their work. Chapter 5 gives a photographic review of fish decoys which imitate actual fish species. Chapter 6 provides photographic example of La Crosse spears used by fishermen, and documents both known and unknown speak makers. Finally, Chapter 7 reviews La Crosse cheater decoys, jig sticks, lures, and decoy-holding boxes to round out the book.
Saginaw Bay Waterfowl Hunting and Decoy Carvers
Author: William A. Stout
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Waterfowl Tomorrow
Author: United States. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Emphasis is on the needs of the 48 species of ducks, geese and swans, and the conservation of the lands and waters which sustain them.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Emphasis is on the needs of the 48 species of ducks, geese and swans, and the conservation of the lands and waters which sustain them.
Ducks Unlimited
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterfowl
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterfowl
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Decoys
Author: Loy S. Harrell, Jr.
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9781565233362
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Sixty great contemporary decoy carvers from North America are highlighted in this illustrated book discussing artist techniques and inspiration. Full-color photographs throughout.
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9781565233362
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Sixty great contemporary decoy carvers from North America are highlighted in this illustrated book discussing artist techniques and inspiration. Full-color photographs throughout.
Wildfowl Carving Competition
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoys (Hunting)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoys (Hunting)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Children's Books in Print
Author: R R Bowker Publishing
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1662
Book Description
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1662
Book Description
The Fish Decoy
Author: Art Kimball
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960490639
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960490639
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting
Author: R. K. Sawyer
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603447733
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
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 centuries 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. He showcases the hunting clubs, the decoys, the duck and goose calls, the equipment, and the unique hunting practices of the period. 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, along with those of coastal residents, birders, wildlife biologists, conservationists, and all who are interested in the state’s natural history and in championing the preservation of waterfowl and wetland resources for the benefit of future generations.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603447733
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
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 centuries 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. He showcases the hunting clubs, the decoys, the duck and goose calls, the equipment, and the unique hunting practices of the period. 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, along with those of coastal residents, birders, wildlife biologists, conservationists, and all who are interested in the state’s natural history and in championing the preservation of waterfowl and wetland resources for the benefit of future generations.