Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers: American Hilltop Fox Chasing (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture), by Thad Sitton
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Around a campfire in the woods through long hours of night, men used to gather to listen to the music of hounds' voices as they chased an elusive and seemingly preternatural fox. To the highly trained ears of these backwoods hunters, the hounds told the story of the pursuit like operatic voices chanting a great epic. Although the hunt almost always ended in the escape of the fox—as the hunters hoped it would—the thrill of the chase made the men feel "that they [were] close to something lost and never to be found, just as one can feel something in a great poem or a dream."
Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers offers a colorful account of this vanishing American folkway—back-country fox hunting known as "hilltopping," "moonlighting," "fox racing," or "one-gallus fox hunting." Practiced neither for blood sport nor to put food on the table, hilltopping was worlds removed from elite fox hunting where red- and black-coated horsemen thundered across green fields in daylight. Hilltopping was a nocturnal, even mystical pursuit, uniting men across social and racial lines as they gathered to listen to dogs chasing foxes over miles of ground until the sun rose. Engaged in by thousands of rural and small-town Americans from the 1860s to the 1980s, hilltopping encouraged a quasi-spiritual identification of man with animal that bound its devotees into a "brotherhood of blood and cause" and made them seem almost crazy to outsiders.
Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers: American Hilltop Fox Chasing (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture), by Thad Sitton- Published on: 2015-11-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .88" w x 6.00" l, 1.25 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 262 pages
About the Author Thad Sitton is a historian of anthropological background and training, specializing in studies of rural Texas during the first half of the twentieth century. Three of Sitton’s books won the coveted T. R. Fehrenbach Award of the Texas Historical Commission, and his history of freedmen’s settlements received a major prize from the Texas Institute of Letters.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great insights into the early American South and valuable perspectives on the early days of conservation in America By C. Hunt Thad Sitton has written a beautiful piece on an almost forgotten chapter in our nation's history. Fox hunting as it was practiced in US, mostly in the South, was adaptation of a popular European pursuit. It was largely a response the land forms, flora and fauna of the US and diverged from European traditions in numerous ways, including the development of an almost cult-like worship of the fox and obsession with breeding the perfect American foxhound. Interestingly, fox hunting as it evolved in the US, may have contributed to conservation being one of the core values of the modern American sportsman as foxhunters quickly learned that habitat destruction and alteration greatly affected their sport.I recommend this work to anyone interested in the history of the American South, historic American lifeways, and the history of conservation, wildlife management and hunting in the US.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Foxhunting explained By Loretta Collins Great book if you are married to or related to a fox hunter. Delves into reason some folks are so drawn to this pastime including the love they have for their dogs.
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