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One of the foremost writers on waterfowling history, Wayne Capooth chronicles in Vol. One of Waterfowling America the fascinating and colorful accounts of how duck hunting evolves from its primitive beginnings with early modern man, some 40,000 years ago, to the Old World, to the New World, and later as it was practiced in the Atlantic Flyway – from Maine to Florida.

Journey back to relive waterfowling history as duck hunting was practiced on the Great South Bay of Long Island, Barnegat Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Currituck Sound, Cobb’s Island, St. Johns River, the rice fields of South Carolina and Georgia, and many other bountiful regions as only Wayne Capooth can tell it.

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One of the foremost writers on waterfowling history, Wayne Capooth chronicles the fascinating and colorful era of waterfowling in Vol. Two as duck hunting was practiced in Texas and the lower Mississippi Flyway – from Missouri to Arkansas, to Tennessee, to Mississippi, to Louisiana. Relive the olden and golden times of duck hunting at Stuttgart, Big Lake, Reelfoot Lake, Beaver Dam, the Cajun Country, Lake Surprise and many other bountiful regions as only Wayne Capooth can tell it.

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One of the foremost writers on waterfowling history, Wayne Capooth chronicles the fascinating and colorful accounts of how duck hunting evolved from its primitive beginnings with early modern man, some 40,000 years ago, to the Old World, to the New World in Vol. One. Vol. Two chronicles the waterfowling history of Texas and the lower Mississippi Flyway. (Continue Reading)

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Before life passed me by, I wanted to take a few moments from my busy family and emergency room life and write a few of the interesting stories that has happened to me during 40-plus years of hunting, mostly waterfowl. Who can forget their first hunting trip and the wonderful enjoyment and rapture they felt when entering the woods or hunting blind? Your Dad and, more than likely, your dog was by your side. It is a moment never to be captured again. It is one that sticks in my mind with vivid recall, never to go away, as long as I have my mental facitlities and love for the outdoors. I wanted to capture that moment of my First Hunt, along with many others that have (Continue Reading)

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My purpose in writing The Golden Age of Hunting, and its companion book, The Golden Age of Waterfowling, is to rescue from the oblivion into which it is rapidly sinking, the history of hunting in the Mid-South, to collate and preserve the memories and incidents of the earlier and late lives of the hardy and revered hunters who came hither to woo from the wildness of the unbroken wilderness our present hunting heritage; to transmit from son to son, in authoritative and reliable records, the places and names of those who have devoted their lives and talents to the development of their sport, and to cultivate among the descendants and successors of these worthies of the past the general good feeling which should characterize those who were the common sharers of hunting of an early life. It is a history that has been sorely shunned and neglected by historians, and (Continue Reading)

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As each year passes us by, the history of our waterfowling heritage in the Mid-South, like old photographs, slowly fades away until the details become harder to ascertain. Unless preserved, our history will eventually fade away altogether. What we have left, as recorded in this book after five years of research, is what this writer has been able to garner by searching out-of-print newspapers, books, sporting journals and courthouse records. Effort and research are underway to learn more about our waterfowling heritage, but I will share with you now what I know about The Golden Age of Waterfowling.

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