WHILE THERE WERE STILL WILD BIRDS is a personal history of Southern quail hunting as it was lived at three different South Carolina quail hunting clubs and by related dog trainers, hunting guides, and hunters. The author's father belonged to the first hunting club in Kline, and was a founding partner in the second hunting club, the Quail Roost Hunt Club, outside Manning. The third club featured was the Foreston Hunt Club, an adjoining neighbor of the Quail Roost Hunt Club. This study covers a span of time from the mid 1930s ...
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WHILE THERE WERE STILL WILD BIRDS is a personal history of Southern quail hunting as it was lived at three different South Carolina quail hunting clubs and by related dog trainers, hunting guides, and hunters. The author's father belonged to the first hunting club in Kline, and was a founding partner in the second hunting club, the Quail Roost Hunt Club, outside Manning. The third club featured was the Foreston Hunt Club, an adjoining neighbor of the Quail Roost Hunt Club. This study covers a span of time from the mid 1930s, when Southern quail hunting was still a popular and important field sport, through and after the mid 1980s when the massive collapse of the quail population ended wild bird hunting. The emphasizes the importance of hunting fellowship and the way in which bird hunting leads to a dramatic encounter with wildness. The book also discusses how race, gender, and environmental change impacted Southern quail hunting.
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