A Thousand Deer: Four Generations of Hunting and the Hill Country

by Rick Bass

Book Overview

In November, countless families across Texas head out for the annual deer hunt, a ritual that spans generations, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and gender as perhaps no other cultural experience in the state. Rick Bass's family has returned to the same hardscrabble piece of land in the Hill Country--"the Deer Pasture"--for more than seventy-five years. In A Thousand Deer, Bass walks the Deer Pasture again in memory and stories, tallying up...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292756283
• ISBN13: 9780292756281
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 7.9"