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The Story of W. W. Titus, Father of the National Bird Dog Championship Field Trials
出版Canebrake Publishing Company, 2023-12
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralSports & Recreation / General
ISBN09966559729780996655972
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4REp0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Bird Dog Man is the story of William W. Titus, a pioneer field trial judge and bird dog trainer and breeder born on Long Island, New York, but who spent most of his adult life in northeast Mississippi. The book combines autobiographical material written by William W. Titus in the late 1800s with supplementary material by James T. McCafferty to present the life of Titus and a history of the early days of bird dog field trials in North America, beginning with the first such events in Memphis, Tennessee, and following the development of the sport throughout the continent, from New York to Mississippi to Manitoba. Titus, in his portions of the book, provides wonderful pen portraits of the many interesting characters who followed the trials and others he met along the way. The book also contains numerous anecdotes about sport hunting, including quail, prairie chicken (pinnated grouse), duck, and goose shooting, as well as squirrel and rabbit hunting. Titus also recounts fascinating details about his travels, including a railroad trip from Mississippi to Iowa during the Pullman strike of 1894. McCafferty provides narratives not included in Titus's writings, such as events from his childhood and accounts of events in Titus's later years not included in his own memoirs.