Hunting and Home in the Southern Heartland: The Best of Archibald Rutledge

by Archibald Hamilton Rutledge and Archibald Rutledge

A beloved storyteller's finest tales of outdoor adventure and the sporting experience

Archibald Rutledge ranks as one of America's best-loved and most prolific outdoor writers. He had a rare knack for capturing the joys of a life lived close to the land, the beauty of the outdoors, the thrill of hunting, and the camaraderie at the heart of the sport. Award-winning outdoor writer Jim Casada has chosen thirty-five stories that represent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872498220
• ISBN13: 9780872498228
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Hunting & Home in the Southern Heartland : The Best of Archi

An excellent insight into the heart of the sportsman and the South's transition to the 20th century. If you are a hunter, you will appreciate how Mr. Ruthledge brings the excitement of the hunt to the reader. If you are a Southerner, you will better understand the critical time when the South shook off the long-standing burdens of the Reconstruction and joined America's march into the 20th century. Today's reader may be shocked by the way that Mr. Ruthledge describes the interactions between whites and blacks during the early part of the 20th century. It is certainly politically incorrect by today's standards. But it does reveal a much deeper and respectful interaction between the races, despite the caste system of the day. All in all an excellent book about hunting in the South.