Tales of Whitetails: Archibald Rutledge's Great Deer-Hunting Stories
Immersive stories of thrilling pursuit of the wisest game animal

No American outdoor writer has more convincingly captured the myriad, and often elusive, meanings of the hunt than Archibald Rutledge. The renowned outdoor writer and poet laureate, who grew up at Hampton Plantation in South Carolina, had a mystical attachment to deer. His stories immortalize the world of the hunter and the hunted.

Editor Jim Casada brings together thirty-five of Rutledge's finest deer stories in this stirring collection. With an unrivaled knack for capturing the thrill of the chase, Rutledge immerses the reader in the deep swamps, pine ridges, and palmetto thickets of the southern landscape. Tales of Whitetails is the only book ever published devoted exclusively to Rutledge's deer tales.

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Tales of Whitetails: Archibald Rutledge's Great Deer-Hunting Stories
Immersive stories of thrilling pursuit of the wisest game animal

No American outdoor writer has more convincingly captured the myriad, and often elusive, meanings of the hunt than Archibald Rutledge. The renowned outdoor writer and poet laureate, who grew up at Hampton Plantation in South Carolina, had a mystical attachment to deer. His stories immortalize the world of the hunter and the hunted.

Editor Jim Casada brings together thirty-five of Rutledge's finest deer stories in this stirring collection. With an unrivaled knack for capturing the thrill of the chase, Rutledge immerses the reader in the deep swamps, pine ridges, and palmetto thickets of the southern landscape. Tales of Whitetails is the only book ever published devoted exclusively to Rutledge's deer tales.

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Tales of Whitetails: Archibald Rutledge's Great Deer-Hunting Stories

Tales of Whitetails: Archibald Rutledge's Great Deer-Hunting Stories

Tales of Whitetails: Archibald Rutledge's Great Deer-Hunting Stories

Tales of Whitetails: Archibald Rutledge's Great Deer-Hunting Stories

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Immersive stories of thrilling pursuit of the wisest game animal

No American outdoor writer has more convincingly captured the myriad, and often elusive, meanings of the hunt than Archibald Rutledge. The renowned outdoor writer and poet laureate, who grew up at Hampton Plantation in South Carolina, had a mystical attachment to deer. His stories immortalize the world of the hunter and the hunted.

Editor Jim Casada brings together thirty-five of Rutledge's finest deer stories in this stirring collection. With an unrivaled knack for capturing the thrill of the chase, Rutledge immerses the reader in the deep swamps, pine ridges, and palmetto thickets of the southern landscape. Tales of Whitetails is the only book ever published devoted exclusively to Rutledge's deer tales.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781643365954
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Publication date: 02/11/2025
Pages: 294
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

Archibald Rutledge (1883–1973) was South Carolina's most prolific writer and the state's first poet laureate. His nature writings garnered him the prestigious John Burroughs Medal.

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