Images of the Hunt: A Photographic History of Texas Waterfowling is a pictorial celebration of Gulf Coast waterfowl hunting,
its over 240 images capturing crane, goose,
duck, and shorebird hunting from about 1890 to the end of the 20th century.
Printing is limited to 1,000 copies. It’s a “coffee table” book composed of images
of how hunters got to the field, from mules to trains to early automobiles,
sails to motorboats and airboats, and old marsh buggies. The reader will follow
where the hunter stayed in the field – from tents to trapper shacks, camps to houseboats
and hunting clubs, as well as the evolution of gadgets and gear
sportsmen used afield, including firearms, duck
boats, blinds, decoys, and retrievers. Then there are the volume and species of
birds, some of which we will never hunt or see again. In short, it’s a
nostalgic look back through the eyes of the sportsman to a now mythical time
and place.
About the Author
R.K. Sawyer pens the historical column “Blast
from the Past” for Wildfowl Magazine. He is the author of A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting, Texas
Market Hunting, Images of the Hunt, and The Tarpon Club of Texas.
Rob has been a waterfowl
hunter since 1964, the seeds of his lifelong passion sown on Maryland’s
Chesapeake Bay. He currently resides in Sugar Land, Texas, with his wife Wendy
and Matagorda Mattie, a black Labrador Retriever. He can be found each year from September
through February prowling the Texas prairie and coast for ducks and snipe.
