Bathed in Blood: Hunting and Mastery in the Old South

From: South Carolina Historical Magazine | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Reynolds, Michael S | Copyright information

Bathed in Blood: Hunting and Mastery in the Old South. By Nicolas W. Proctor. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 220; $45, cloth; $16.50, paper.)

It has long been understood that hunting is more than just sport or recreation in the South. The hunting tradition is an important part of southern culture, and some of the most memorable stories from southern literature-from the fictional accounts of William Gilmore Simms and William Faulkner to the memoirs of Sou...

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