| Description |
1 online resource (291 pages) |
| Series |
Alabama Fire Ant |
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Alabama Fire Ant
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| Contents |
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 |
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The Last Watermen; Other 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 |
| Summary |
In the hinterland behind the port of Mobile lies the vast swampy convergence of the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers, a delta rich in fish, game animals, hard and softwood resources, and the beauty and solitude of the wild - but also rich in varmints big and little, including some human ones, and the manifold dangers of a world where land, sky, and water seem to blend together and one can become lost 100 paces in any direction, if not drowned or devoured first. To make a living here, one had to be capable, confident, clever and inventive, know a lot about survival, be able to fashion and repair |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918-2017
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Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918-2017 -- Family
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| SUBJECT |
Smith, Robert Leslie, 1918-2017 fast |
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Pioneers -- Alabama -- Baldwin County -- Biography
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Country life -- Alabama -- Mobile-Tensaw Delta
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Outdoor life -- Alabama -- Mobile-Tensaw Delta
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Swamps -- Alabama -- Mobile-Tensaw Delta
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Country life
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Families
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Manners and customs
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Outdoor life
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Pioneers
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Swamps
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Baldwin County (Ala.) -- Social life and customs
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Mobile-Tensaw Delta (Ala.) -- Social life and customs
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Baldwin County (Ala.) -- Biography
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Mobile-Tensaw Delta (Ala.) -- Biography
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| Subject |
Alabama -- Baldwin County
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Alabama -- Mobile-Tensaw Delta
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780817380694 |
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0817380698 |
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