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Autore: | Smith Robert Leslie <1918-> |
Titolo: | Gone to the swamp [[electronic resource] ] : raw materials for the good life in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta / / Robert Leslie Smith |
Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
Disciplina: | 975.8/57304 |
Soggetto topico: | Pioneers - Alabama - Baldwin County |
Country life - Alabama - Mobile-Tensaw Delta | |
Outdoor life - Alabama - Mobile-Tensaw Delta | |
Swamps - Alabama - Mobile-Tensaw Delta | |
Soggetto geografico: | Baldwin County (Ala.) Social life and customs |
Mobile-Tensaw Delta (Ala.) Social life and customs | |
Baldwin County (Ala.) Biography | |
Mobile-Tensaw Delta (Ala.) Biography | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Gone to the Swamp; The Skin Game; The Public Timber Inspector; Oxen and the Men Who Drove Them; High Water Logging; Rafting and Loading Gunboats; Work of the Blacksmith; A Personal Note; Work of the Sawyer; Camp Life; Night Rafting; Kingfisher; The Yupon; Aunt Violet Boston; River Tale; Wildcats; Lost in the Swamp; Fear Strikes the Bend; Swamp Tale; The Kennedy Mills; Sawmill Tales; Sawmill Tales Continued; Logging in Blakeley Battleground; Mechanized Logging; Flatboats; Stockton Boat Ways; Latter Day Watermen; Latter Day Pullboating |
The Last WatermenOther Swamp Stories; Recovery of a Union Mortar in the Delta; Famous Trees; Oil in the Delta; Hubbard Landing; An Alabama State Treasure; The Old Ways; County Surveyor; Hunting Camp Life; The McGowan Compass; Dixie Landing; The Art and Practice of Hollering; United States Reserve Fleet; Delta Elementary School; How to Build a Double Ender; Construction of a Flatboat; Glossary | |
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Titolo autorizzato: | Gone to the swamp |
ISBN: | 0-8173-8069-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454705103321 |
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