Camp life in Florida; a handbook for sportsmen and settlers

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Camp life in Florida; a handbook for sportsmen and settlers

Entry/Object ID

2015.1.1064

Tags

Library Rare books collection as of June 4 2023

Description

vi, [7]-348 pages ; 19 cm. "Camp life in Florida is a compliation of articles by various writers, originally appearing in Forest and Stream, a sportsmen's journal." Contents: Birds-eye glance at Florida -- Outfit for sportsmen -- Hints for Southern hunting -- Coastwise routes of travel -- Game animals and birds of Florida -- Game fish of Florida -- Three months in Florida for one hundred dollars -- Supplementary hints for cheap recreation -- Up the St. Johns River -- Indian River -- Florida the promised land -- Fort Capron -- Fishing at St. Augustine -- Black bass fishing on Spruce Creek -- Hunting the panther -- Environs of Tallahassee -- Private Dougherty and the bass -- Pet birds of St. Augustine -- Steam yachting on the St. Johns -- Among the Seminoles -- In the cypress swamps -- Cruising along shore -- Shooting at Salt Lake -- Okeechobee expedition -- Florida travel -- Homosassa Tallahassee -- South West Florida (Including Indian mounds and canals, Fernandina to Cedar Keys, Chaper XXV: Talks of hotels and boarding houses in Jacksonville, rates to travel by boat to locations along St. Johns River. Chapter XX: describes meeting Seminole Indians, their native dress and language, meeting Charley Osceola who claimed to be a descendant of Chief Osceola, visiting a Seminole village.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Camping -- Florida., Hunting -- Florida., Florida -- Description and travel., Saint Johns River (Fla.) -- History., Saint Johns River (Fla.) -- Description and travel.

Publication Details

Author

Hallock, Charles, 1834-1917, editor

Publisher

Forest and Stream Publishing Company

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

New York, NY

Call No.

Rare Book F 316 .H19 1876

LCCN

01006896