The Outlaw Gunner

by Walsh, Harry M.

• ISBN13: 9780870336096
• ISBN10: 0870336096
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Summary

The Outlaw Gunner is the colorful story of market gunning in both its legal and illegal phases, particularly as it was practiced in the great Chesapeake Bay, the Outer Banks, and the tidewater regions of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.

Author Biography

Harry M. Walsh is a native of Chestertown, Maryland. He grew up as a riverman on the wild and lonely marshes that fringe the Chesapeake Bay and served his apprenticeship with an old market gunner. By the age of thirteen he was hiring out as a hunting guide, supplementing the family income, and later helping pay his way through college. Dr. Walsh is a graduate of Washington College and the University of Maryland Medical School. After completing four years of surgical residency in Nassau and Meadowbrook hospitals in New York, he returned to his native Eastern Shore and for many years was on the staff of the Memorial Hospital in Easton.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
The Market Gunner	p. 1
Gunning With Decoys	p. 5
The Fowling Piece	p. 21
Use of Corn	p. 29
Gunning with an Outlaw	p. 37
Gunning with Tollers	p. 41
Old Peter	p. 43
Duck Trappers	p. 51
Ducks for Sale	p. 59
Gunning for the Gentry	p. 65
The Night Hunter	p. 71
The Gunning Light	p. 77
The Light in the Storm	p. 81
The Big Gun	p. 89
Jake and His Big Gun	p. 106
Pipe Gun and Battery	p. 115
Alone in the Ice Floes	p. 123
The Sinkbox	p. 129
The Law Cometh	p. 167
Index	p. 169
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