Author: Frank Mann Stewart
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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The Reorganization of State Administration in Texas
Author: Frank Mann Stewart
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Texas Market Hunting
Author: R. K. Sawyer
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623490154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623490154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
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.
The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
Hand-list of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws
Author: Charles Jacob Babbitt
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Publisher:
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Hand-list of Legislative Sessions and Sessions Laws Statutory Revisions, Compilations Codes, Etc., and Constitutional Conventions of the United States and Its Possessions and of the Several States to May, 1912
Author: Charles Jacob Babbitt
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 158477293X
Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Babbitt, Charles J. Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws Statutory Revisions, Compilations, Codes, Etc., and Constitutional Conventions of the United States and its Possessions and of the Several States to May, 1912. [Boston]: The Trustees of the State Library of Massachusetts, [1912]. 634 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002041289. ISBN 1-58477-293-X. Cloth. $125. * A hand-list of statute law defining the location of the text of every legislative session that has occurred in the United States and its possessions to 1912, including every volume containing session laws or revisions and compilations of laws. Compiled for the State Library of Massachusetts by Charles J. Babbitt under the direction of Charles F.D. Belden, the State Librarian at the time of the compilation. The historical and bibliographic details provided include a synopsis of the political situation that warranted the statute when applicable, as well as format and collation of the noted volume.
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 158477293X
Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Babbitt, Charles J. Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws Statutory Revisions, Compilations, Codes, Etc., and Constitutional Conventions of the United States and its Possessions and of the Several States to May, 1912. [Boston]: The Trustees of the State Library of Massachusetts, [1912]. 634 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002041289. ISBN 1-58477-293-X. Cloth. $125. * A hand-list of statute law defining the location of the text of every legislative session that has occurred in the United States and its possessions to 1912, including every volume containing session laws or revisions and compilations of laws. Compiled for the State Library of Massachusetts by Charles J. Babbitt under the direction of Charles F.D. Belden, the State Librarian at the time of the compilation. The historical and bibliographic details provided include a synopsis of the political situation that warranted the statute when applicable, as well as format and collation of the noted volume.
Adjudicated Forms of Pleading and Practice, with Annotations and Correlative Statutes
Author: John George Jury
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Category : Pleading
Languages : en
Pages : 1314
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Category : Pleading
Languages : en
Pages : 1314
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Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs Division
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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The Laws of Texas 1822-1897
Author: Texas
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages :
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University of Texas Bulletin
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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