To See Them Run
Great Plains Coyote Coursing
To See Them Run explores how and why Great Plains hunters have chased coyotes with greyhounds and other sight hounds since before George Armstrong Custer. Though a well-developed, long-lived, widespread, and undeniably enthralling tradition, the practice remains little known, even to those living in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and South Dakota, where the tradition is common. Coyote coursing, hunting with greyhounds launched from specially made pickup rigs, is a hobby by locals, for locals, and it has remained a quintessentially vernacular enterprise occupying a rung below the Plains' prestige forms of animal training and interaction--namely with hors…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Squire, Scott (Fotogr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4968-0387-0
- EAN: 9781496803870
- Produktnummer: 20595558
- Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'580 KB
Über den Autor
Eric A. Eliason, Springville, Utah, is professor of folklore at Brigham Young University. He has published on hunting, as well as Caribbean, military, Mormon, Russian, English, Afghan, American, Mexican, and biblical cultural traditions. His books include Wild Games: Hunting and Fishing Traditions in North America with Dennis Cutchins, Latter-day Lore: Mormon Folklore Studies with Tom Mould, and Black Velvet Art with Scott Squire (published by University Press of Mississippi).
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