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New From Eakin Press
Miles City
Rollicking Cow Capital of the Montana Frontier By Bill O'Neal During its heyday as a cattle town, Miles City called itself the “Cow Capital of the World.” Later, after adjacent Fort Keogh was converted to an army remount depot, Miles City proudly shared its identity: “This is Uncle Sam’s horse ranch. The employees are all civilians, and the wranglers are cowpunchers and expert riders.” Later still, a wild method of gathering and selling horses off the range produced the most recognized nickname of all: “The World-Famous Miles City Bucking Horse Sale.” Read More . . . 
Texas Market Hunting
Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws By R.K. Sawyer From its earliest days of human habitation, the Texas coast was home to seemingly endless clouds of ducks, geese, swans, and shorebirds. By the 1880s Texas huntsmen, or market hunters, as they came to be called, began providing meat and plumage for the restaurant tables and millinery salons of a rapidly growing nation. A network of suppliers, packers, distribution centers, and shipping hubs efficiently handled their immense harvest. Read More . . . 
A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting
The Decoys, Guides, Clubs, and Places – 1870s to 1970s By R.K. Sawyer The days are gone when seemingly limitless numbers of canvasbacks, mallards, and Canada geese filled the skies above the Texas coast. Gone too are the days when, in a single morning, hunters often harvested ducks, shorebirds, and other waterfowl by the hundreds. The hundred-year period from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century brought momentous changes in attitudes and game laws: changes initially prompted by sportsmen who witnessed the disappearance of both the birds and their spectacular habitat. These changes forever affected the state’s storied hunting culture. Read More . . . 
Village Without Men: Sophie’s Second Journal
By Janice Shefelman Dear Reader, what is to become of us - of me, Sophie? Thus begins Sophie's second journal, written two years later. She is now fifteen years old, and the Civil War is three years old. Her first journal, Sophie's War, tells how she and her family live in constant danger as Unionists in the hill country of Texas, a state that has left the Union and joined the Confederacy. Read More . . . |
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