: Wild Sports in the Far West by Gerst Cker Friedrich Weir Harrison Illustrator - United States Description and travel; Southwest Old Description and travel; Arkansas Description and travel; Ohio River Valley Description and travel; Hunting Mississippi River

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FROM BREMEN TO NEW YORK.

The Bremen Lighter--A Parting Jollification--The good Ship "Constitution"--The Steerage--The Last of Germany--Sea-sickness--Life on Board--The Channel--Sea Sights--A Shark--A Wreck--Bathing at Sea--Dancing on Board--Stormy Weather--The Coast of Newfoundland--Festivities on the 4th of July--Shark and Pilot-Fish--Mother Carey's Chickens--Land ho!--Staten Island--Our Destination.....pp. 1--30

NEW YORK TO BUFFALO.

Car-drivers--An Irish Funeral--German Boarding-House--A Pulpit in a State of Siege--Negroes at New York--Shooting Excursion near New York--Railway to Utica--American Canal Boat--My Fat Fellow-passenger--Pennsylvanian smith--Hamilton--Wild Duck-shooting--An Indian Hunter--Night in the Woods--A Yankee Cattle-dealer--Buffalo Politicians.....31--60

Wet and Weary--Out in the Woods--The Forest Mill--A Raccoon--A Pleasant Travelling Companion--My Israelite Fellow-lodgers--Fording the Wabash--A Wet Road--Buck-shooting--Illinois and its Climate--I set off for New Orleans--Lead Mines in Missouri.....61--82

ARKANSAS, AND "DOWN RIVER" TO NEW ORLEANS.

CINCINNATI--A FARMER'S LIFE IN THE WOODS.

A Runaway Couple--Cincinnati and its Religious Sects--The Girl "possessed with a Devil"--I start afresh for the Woods--Bad Sport and bad Weather--Crawfish--Blackfish Lake--A Picnic in the Woods--Mule Drivers from Texas--Strong's Plantation--A Swimming-race with the dogs--Saint Woodland's Farm--Bee-hunting--Wild Honey--Searching for Horses--Dancing for a Dinner--Backwoods Building--Ague--My Methodist Friend--Duck-shooting--Snakes in the Swamps--Our Farming Arrangements.....117--149

A FARMER'S LIFE IN THE WOODS .

A Wolf--We shift our Quarters--False Alarm--Squirrel for Breakfast--Primitive Mode of Winnowing Corn--"Oiltrove Bottom"--Pawpaw Trees--"Not at home"--Hard Fare--A Panther--Visit to Hilger--A Great Political Discussion--Clearing Land for Fields--Ague--Prompt Burial in the Swamps--A Backwoods Family--Swindlers in Arkansas--White River and its Neighborhood--Magnus, the Great Buffalo Hunter--A Patient with the Ague--Swamps--Hunting with an unloaded Gun--Death of the Bear.....150--181

WOODLAND SPORTS--CANE-BRAKES--MY EXAMINATION BY THE SCHOOL COMMISSION.

Turkey-shooting with Dogs--Forest Travel--Scarcity of Provisions--Overcup Oak--Buck-hunting--Buffalo-hunting--Return to the Haunts of Men--Bear-hunting with dogs--The Falling Tree--"Shocking bad Dreams"--Ladies in the Forest--Unemployed Hands in Cincinnati--Card-playing in the Cane-brake--German Settlers down South--The Great School Examination--Speculation in Canes.....182-209

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