Wild Sports: Rambling and Hunting Trips Through the United States of North America (Classics of American Sport)

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  • An exciting first-hand account of an early deer hunter’s explorations of the unspoiled American wilderness
  • Voyages from New York, via Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, and as some distance south as Louisiana.

    Gerstacker arrived in The us from Germany in 1837, drawn by stories he had heard of the immense forests, superb for deer hunting. He wandered from Buffalo to New Orleans, visiting frontiersmen of their backwoods cabins and living off the land, eating venison, acorns, sassafras leaves, and wild honey. He found Arkansas ideal for hunting, and encountered all types of flora and fauna, together with alligators, wolves, bears, and deer, in his travels. His hunting journal gives an enchanting have a look at the early-nineteenth century American landscape.

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