The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire
by Mayne Reid
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About This Book
The only account of Reid's hunting trip with John J. Audubon from St. Louis to the Osage country, 300 miles southwest of Independence, Missouri. Stories about hunting cougars, squirrels, raccoons, moose, bears, buffalo and more. These tales of hunting and knowledge of a naturalist, combine to tell of life in the far West. Mayne Reid, a pre-eminent and popular writer, was primarily a novelist (1818-1883) who wrote adventure stories from just before the Civil War until his death in 1883. Reid's career included two periods in the U. 1840-49 and 1867-70. He had emigrated to the United States in hi...
Chapters (80)
- Captain Mayne Reid "The Hunters' Feast"
- Chapter One.
- A Hunting Party.
- Chapter Two.
- The Camp and Camp-Fire.
- Chapter Three.
- Besançon’s adventure in the swamps.
- Chapter Four.
- The Passenger-Pigeons.
- Chapter Five.
- Hunt with a Howitzer.
- Chapter Six.
- Killing a Cougar.
- Chapter Seven.
- The Cougar.
- Chapter Eight.
- Old Ike’s Adventure.
- Chapter Nine.
- The Musquash.
- Chapter Ten.
- A Rat-Hunt.
- Chapter Eleven.
- Musquitoes and their Antidote.
- Chapter Twelve.
- The ’Coon, and his Habits.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- A ’Coon-Chase.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- Wild Hogs of the Woods.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- Treed by Peccaries.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- A Duck-Shooting Adventure.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- Hunting the Vicuña.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- A Chacu of Vicuñas.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- Squirrel-Shooting.
- Chapter Twenty.
- Treeing a Bear.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- The Black Bear of America.
- Chapter Twenty Two.
- The Trapper Trapped.
- Chapter Twenty Three.
- The American Deer.
- Chapter Twenty Four.
- Deer Hunt in a “Dug-Out.”
- Chapter Twenty Five.
- Old Ike and the Grizzly.
- Chapter Twenty Six.
- A Battle with Grizzly Bears.
- Chapter Twenty Seven.
- The Swans of America.
- Chapter Twenty Eight.
- Hunting the Moose.
- Chapter Twenty Nine.
- The Prairie-Wolf and Wolf-Killer.
- Chapter Thirty.
- Hunting the Tapir.
- Chapter Thirty One.
- The Buffaloes at last.
- Chapter Thirty Two.
- The Bison.
- Chapter Thirty Three.
- Trailing the Buffalo.
- Chapter Thirty Four.
- Approaching the Buffalo.
- Chapter Thirty Five.
- Unexpected Guests.
- Chapter Thirty Six.
- A Supper of Wolf-Mutton.
- Chapter Thirty Seven.
- Hare Hunting and Cricket Driving.
- Chapter Thirty Eight.
- A Grand Battue.
- Chapter Thirty Nine.
- The Route Home.
- The End.
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