George Magoon And The Down East Game War

Author : Edward D. Ives
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252063309

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George Magoon and the Down East Game War by Edward D. Ives Pdf

George Magoon (1851-1929), a notorious moose and deer poacher in Maine, was the hero of scores of funny stories of how he outwitted game wardens. Preserving these oral histories, Edward Ives documents Magoon's life and explores his significance as a folk hero within the context of the conservation movement, the cult of the sportsman, and Maine's increasingly restrictive game laws. "A rich and subtle book, an important work by a major scholar. . . . It is a major contribution to folklore studies, and to history and American studies as well." -- Journal of American Folklore

Author : Edward D. Ives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Hunters
ISBN : OCLC:1341889923

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George Magoon and the Down East Game War: History, Folklore, and the Law by Edward D. Ives Pdf

Author : Simon J Bronner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1469 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317471950

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Encyclopedia of American Folklife by Simon J Bronner Pdf

American folklife is steeped in world cultures, or invented as new culture, always evolving, yet often practiced as it was created many years or even centuries ago. This fascinating encyclopedia explores the rich and varied cultural traditions of folklife in America - from barn raisings to the Internet, tattoos, and Zydeco - through expressions that include ritual, custom, crafts, architecture, food, clothing, and art. Featuring more than 350 A-Z entries, "Encyclopedia of American Folklife" is wide-ranging and inclusive. Entries cover major cities and urban centers; new and established immigrant groups as well as native Americans; American territories, such as Guam and Samoa; major issues, such as education and intellectual property; and expressions of material culture, such as homes, dress, food, and crafts. This encyclopedia covers notable folklife areas as well as general regional categories. It addresses religious groups (reflecting diversity within groups such as the Amish and the Jews), age groups (both old age and youth gangs), and contemporary folk groups (skateboarders and psychobillies) - placing all of them in the vivid tapestry of folklife in America. In addition, this resource offers useful insights on folklife concepts through entries such as "community and group" and "tradition and culture." The set also features complete indexes in each volume, as well as a bibliography for further research.

Author : Paul Doiron
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466888531

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The Mike Bowditch Series, Books 1-3 by Paul Doiron Pdf

Bestselling author and Edgar-Award finalist Paul Doiron knows Maine better than just about anyone, and in this series that follows Maine game warden Mike Bowditch, he proves it. Here together for the first time in one thrill-ride collection are the first three books in the critically acclaimed series: The Poacher's Son Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive-his own father. Trespasser On a fog shrouded road in Maine, a young woman disappears after hitting a deer with her car. When Bowditch is called to investigate, he uncovers a web of lies and deceit that leads to a killer who may have already gotten away with murder. Bad Little Falls Doiron delivers another "masterpiece of high-octane narrative" (Booklist) in this harrowing thriller about the hunt for a murderer at the height of a major snowstorm.

Author : Peter Karsten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521792835

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Between Law and Custom by Peter Karsten Pdf

Drawing on extensive archival and library sources, Karsten explores these collisions and arrives at a number of conclusions that will surprise.

Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521365597

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American Studies by Jack Salzman Pdf

This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.

Author : Christian P. Potholm
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739170045

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Maine by Christian P. Potholm Pdf

Maine: An Annotated Bibliography is a look at the Maine Experience from its historical, political, social, and literary perspectives. It provides readers an overview of over four hundred books written about Maine, including the perspective which they provide. Topics such as "The Wild, Wild East," "Ethnicity Matters," "Women in Maine," and "Maine in the Civil War" stimulate the imagination and provide the most comprehensive synopsis of writing about Maine available.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Maine
ISBN : WISC:89065282097

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Down East by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gail Underwood Parker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762795789

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IT HAPPENED IN MAINE: REMARKABLE E 2ED by Gail Underwood Parker Pdf

It Happened in Maine takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Pine Tree State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.

Author : Gail Underwood Parker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762795796

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It Happened in Maine by Gail Underwood Parker Pdf

It Happened in Maine takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Pine Tree State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.

Author : J. Santino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403982339

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Signs of War and Peace by J. Santino Pdf

Signs of War and Peace focuses on the role public display plays in the conflict in Northern Ireland. In doing so, it ranges freely over other times, places, and events that shed light on the social and political processes and dynamics involved in public display traditions, such as the Saint Patrick's Day parades in Boston, Massachusetts, and the popular spontaneous shrines to Lady Diana in London. The book is about the nature of public display, its relationships to class-based aesthetics, tradition, and popular style. It is also about contest, conflict, and civil war, and the ways the former are intimately intertwined with the latter, both in Northern Ireland and elsewhere throughout the world. The work is interdisciplinary, combining ethnographic, anthropological, folkloristic, and performance studies approaches. The manuscript benefits from large amount of field work in Ireland, and as a result contains both ethnographic data and revealing interviews with many people in Northern Ireland who have participated in the display events Santino seeks to analyze. The perspective that Santino offers helps to explain the intensity of the conflict as well as the origination, motivations, and justifications of bonfires, murals, commemorative displays, parades, etc. that symbolically articulate what he terms the 'dual master narratives' that underlie and in many ways help to articulate the parameters of that conflict.

Author : Dennis Ray Cutchins,Eric Alden Eliason
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781572336704

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Wild Games by Dennis Ray Cutchins,Eric Alden Eliason Pdf

"Humans understand at least some of what it means to be human, both literally and figuratively, in reference to wild animals. Our relationships with wildlife have traditionally been expressed in terms of hunting; more recently, these relationships have also been manifest as efforts to prevent hunting. Hunting and fishing traditions are, in fact, under fire by critics at the same time that they are receding of their own accord - perhaps becoming even more endangered than any of the pursued animals. These traditions form the major focus of Wild Games, a new collection of essays that looks at the folklore and culture of various hunting and fishing practices, documenting the central importance of hunting to many rural societies, even in modern times." "Editors Dennis Cutchins and Eric Eliason contend that hunters often don't perceive of themselves as separate from the wild but, rather, identify strongly with a natural order - integrated with, rather than standing apart from, the fluctuation of ecosystems. And they frequently don't see wild animals as "set apart" but understand them as food sources, competitors, friendly rivals, and even equals." "Featuring contributions from a variety of distinguished scholars and writers - including an essay by the noted folklorist Simon Bronner on the culture of the deer camp, a fascinating account of coyote tracking by Eric Eliason, and an examination of the role of gender in outdoor life by Diane Humphrey Lueck - this book shows how the traditions of hunting and fishing tend to bind hunter and prey into ancient patterns that often defy contemporary culture." --Book Jacket.

Author : Louis S. Warren
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0300080867

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The Hunter's Game by Louis S. Warren Pdf

The Hunter's Game reveals that early wildlife conservation was driven not by heroic idealism, but by the interests of recreational hunters and the tourist industry. As American wildlife populations declined at the end of the nineteenth century, elite, urban sportsmen began to lobby for game laws that would restrict the customary hunting practices of immigrants, Indians, and other local hunters.

Author : Paul Doiron
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250010919

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Bad Little Falls by Paul Doiron Pdf

Anthony- and Edgar-award nominated author Paul Doiron delivers another "masterpiece of high-octane narrative" (Booklist) with his harrowing thriller about the hunt for a murderer at the height of a major snowstorm Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has been sent into exile, transferred by his superiors to a remote outpost on the Canadian border. When a blizzard descends on the coast, Bowditch is called to the rustic cabin of a terrified couple. A raving and half-frozen man has appeared at their door, claiming his friend is lost in the storm. But what starts as a rescue mission in the wilderness soon becomes a baffling murder investigation. The dead man is a notorious drug dealer, and state police detectives suspect it was his own friend who killed him. Bowditch isn't so sure, but his vow not to interfere in the case is tested when he finds himself powerfully attracted to a beautiful woman with a dark past and a troubled young son. The boy seems to know something about what really happened in the blizzard, but he is keeping his secrets locked in a cryptic notebook, and Mike fears for the safety of the strange child. Meanwhile, an anonymous tormentor has decided to make the new warden's life a living hell. Alone and outgunned, Bowditch turns for assistance to his old friend, the legendary bush pilot Charley Stevens. But in this snowbound landscape—where smugglers wage blood feuds by night—help seems very far away indeed. If Bowditch is going to catch a killer, he must survive on his own wits and discover strength he never knew he possessed.

Author : Karl Jacoby
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520282292

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Crimes Against Nature by Karl Jacoby Pdf

"This Study of the Early American conservation movement reveals the hidden history of three of the nation's first parks: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Karl Jacoby traces the effects that the criminalization of such traditional rural practices as hunting, fishing, and foraging had on country people in these areas. Despite the presence of new environmental regulations, poaching arson, and timber stealing became widespread among the Native Americans, poor whites, and others who had long relied on the natural resources now contained within conservation areas. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes," providing a rich and multifaceted portrayal of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." "Crimes against Nature includes previously unpublished historical photographs depicting such subjects as poachers in Yellowstone and a Native American "squatters' camp" at the Grand Canyon. This study demonstrates the importance of considering class for understanding environmental history and opens a new perspective on the social history of rural and poor people a century age."--Jacket of 2001 edition