Gray Ghosts And Red Rangers

Author : Thad Sitton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292777833
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers written by Thad Sitton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around a campfire in the woods through long hours of night, men used to gather to listen to the music of hounds' voices as they chased an elusive and seemingly preternatural fox. To the highly trained ears of these backwoods hunters, the hounds told the story of the pursuit like operatic voices chanting a great epic. Although the hunt almost always ended in the escape of the fox—as the hunters hoped it would—the thrill of the chase made the men feel "that they [were] close to something lost and never to be found, just as one can feel something in a great poem or a dream." Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers offers a colorful account of this vanishing American folkway—back-country fox hunting known as "hilltopping," "moonlighting," "fox racing," or "one-gallus fox hunting." Practiced neither for blood sport nor to put food on the table, hilltopping was worlds removed from elite fox hunting where red- and black-coated horsemen thundered across green fields in daylight. Hilltopping was a nocturnal, even mystical pursuit, uniting men across social and racial lines as they gathered to listen to dogs chasing foxes over miles of ground until the sun rose. Engaged in by thousands of rural and small-town Americans from the 1860s to the 1980s, hilltopping encouraged a quasi-spiritual identification of man with animal that bound its devotees into a "brotherhood of blood and cause" and made them seem almost crazy to outsiders.

Author : Thad Sitton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292723024
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers written by Thad Sitton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around a campfire in the woods through long hours of night, men used to gather to listen to the music of hounds’ voices as they chased an elusive and seemingly preternatural fox. To the highly trained ears of these backwoods hunters, the hounds told the story of the pursuit like operatic voices chanting a great epic. Although the hunt almost always ended in the escape of the fox—as the hunters hoped it would—the thrill of the chase made the men feel “that they [were] close to something lost and never to be found, just as one can feel something in a great poem or a dream.” Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers offers a colorful account of this vanishing American folkway—back-country fox hunting known as “hilltopping,” “moonlighting,” “fox racing,” or “one-gallus fox hunting.” Practiced neither for blood sport nor to put food on the table, hilltopping was worlds removed from elite fox hunting where red- and black-coated horsemen thundered across green fields in daylight. Hilltopping was a nocturnal, even mystical pursuit, uniting men across social and racial lines as they gathered to listen to dogs chasing foxes over miles of ground until the sun rose. Engaged in by thousands of rural and small-town Americans from the 1860s to the 1980s, hilltopping encouraged a quasi-spiritual identification of man with animal that bound its devotees into a “brotherhood of blood and cause” and made them seem almost crazy to outsiders.

Author : Virgil Carrington Jones
Publisher : Mockingbird Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders written by Virgil Carrington Jones and published by Mockingbird Books. This book was released on 1956 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exploits of the Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War were real and damaging, but the men themselves appeared only briefly on hilltops before disappearing into the mist. Jones's much-praised account of these courageous and unpredictable partisans has changed interpretations of the war's final stage.

Author : Lonn Taylor
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0875657206
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turning the Pages of Texas written by Lonn Taylor and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning the Pages of Texas is a collection of sixty essays about Texas books, authors, book collectors, libraries, and bookstores. It is a book for booklovers and bookish readers. Lonn Taylor writes from the point of view of a historian who has been reading books about Texas for seventy years, since he was seven years old, and who has known many of the authors he writes about. He presents his reflections about well-known figures such as John Graves, J. Frank Dobie, and Larry McMurtry. He also introduces readers to people like folklorist C. L. Sonnichsen, who wrote about Texas feuds; Julia Lee Sinks, who interviewed early settlers of Fayette County in the 1870s; Karen Olsson, who wrote a fine novel about the mystique of Austin; and David Dorado Romo, who describes himself as the “psychogeographer of El Paso” and is the grandnephew of a saint. Some of the authors Taylor writes about are truly obscure, like Gertrude Beasley, who published her autobiography in Paris in 1924 and died in a New York insane asylum, or Tony Cano, whose self-published autobiographical novel describes what it was like to be poor and Mexican in West Texas in the 1950s. Taylor also teases out the Texas connections of writers as diverse as William Sydney Porter, Hervey Allen, and H. Allen Smith, and he writes about tracking down Texas books in London and Washington, DC, as well as at Barber’s in Fort Worth, the Brick Row Book Shop in Austin, and Rosengren’s and Brock’s in San Antonio. This is a booklover’s book.

Author : Susan Provost Beller
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613883146
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosby and His Rangers written by Susan Provost Beller and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Provost Beller
Publisher : Betterway Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781558702653
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosby and His Rangers written by Susan Provost Beller and published by Betterway Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ride with the Gray Ghost of the Confederacy in Mosby and His Rangers as a small group of guerilla fighters keep thousands of Union troops tied up defending Washington. Presenting the excitement of the raids in the words of the Rangers, the book then carefully puts their controversial tactics within the larger perspective of the resulting Union punishment of civilians.

Author : Virgil Carrington Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders written by Virgil Carrington Jones and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the confederate guerilla troops during the Civil War.

Author : Joseph Sackett
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595002285
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gray Ghosts written by Joseph Sackett and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gray Ghosts takes place at a remote air base near Tucson, Arizona. Although the base supports active flying units, it is also the resting place of hundreds of aging surplus airplanes that served in prior wars. The planes are too old to fly, yet too valuable to destroy. Sitting on the desert floor, the warplanes rest in a cemetery called the Boneyards. Pilots occasionally drive by to pay their respects. This evening, the base is also the site of a Marine reunion. Will Martin, the story's main character, mysteriously appears on the morning of the reunion. Years ago, Will flew A-6 Intruders. Tonight, he will fly them again. Through past remembrances, Gray Ghosts follows Will through exciting combat action in Vietnam, the Gulf of Sidra, and Iraq. Between conflicts, Will and his fellow Marines travel the world to engage in one outrageously funny escapade after another. But most importantly, Gray Ghosts is a story of love and friendship. After being away for many years, Will meets his old partner again. With his friend's help, Will gets one chance to reaffirm his relationship with the woman he loves. The twist is in how their reunion transpires.

Author : Richard S. Brownlee
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807111628
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy written by Richard S. Brownlee and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1983-12-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy is a history of the Confederate guerrillas who—under the ruthless command of such men as William C. Quantrill and “Bloody Bill” Anderson—plunged Missouri into a bloody, vicious conflict of an intensity unequaled in any other theater of the Civil War. Among their numbers were Frank and Jesse James and Cole and James Younger, who would later become infamous by extending the tactics they had learned during the war into civilian life.

Author : Virgil Carrington Jones
Publisher : Galahad Books
ISBN 13 : 9780883940921
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders written by Virgil Carrington Jones and published by Galahad Books. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tells for the first time the story of guerilla warfare during the Civil War -- an exciting account of the incredible adventures of such Rebel leaders as Harry Gilmor, "Lige" White, Turner Ashby, Hanse McNeill, and the indefatigable Mosby, and their courageous and daring efforts to prevent Northern forces from sweeping through the South"--Flyleaf