With Rifle & Petticoat: Women as Big Game Hunters, 1880-1940

by Kenneth P. Czech

Overview

The image that comes to mind when you think of big game hunters is of African safaris with men carrying enormous guns hunting exotic game. But there were women on those trips as well, and not just the trips to Africa, and they were often as successful at the hunt as the men. Women such as Lady Florence Dixie, Agnes Herbert, 'sa Johnson, Grace Gallatin Seton, and Gladys Harriman hunted so well, they made names for themselves and wrote of their adventures. Divided into chapters detailing a specific time period, region hunted or individual woman, With Rifle and Petticoat explores the interesting women who hunted a variety of big game animals around the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781586670825
Publisher:	Derrydale Press
Publication date:	08/30/2002
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.28(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Kenneth Czech is a history professor at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. His previous books include Snapshot: America Discovers the Camera, and An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1780-1950. He has also contributed to numerous journals and magazines. He is also an antiquarian book dealer specializing in sporting books.

Editorial Reviews

After closing the back cover of With Rifle and Petticoat, hunters of this century will take pride inthe moxie of the women before them who blazed now forgotten trails into the sport of hunting.

Women In The Outdoors - Marilyn Stone

It's not unusual these days to see women hunting deer or other big or small game. But, of course, it hasn't always been so. Czech, a history professor and antiquarian booksller from St. Cloud, writes about the early women who hunted big game, usually with their husbands and often on safaris in Africa. As Czech writes, the story of women as big-game hunters is virtually unknown. Until now.

Star Tribune

With Rifle and Petticoat is a not-to-be-missed read as you share adventures, misadventures and emotions of these intrepid women huners.

Women's Outlook - Linda Hoff

Amazingly, this book by Ken Czech is the first to deal specifically with woman as big game hunters and authors of big game hunting books. As you will see, their accomplishments in the hunting field have been substantial.

Guns and Gear - Ellen Enzler

Many modern women rightly pride themselves on their savvy in the field. Yet this book, an enjoyable excursion down darkening roads into a past we have largely forgotten, reminds us that in some senses there is nothing new in the world.

Women In The Outdoors - Cindy Ross

We had known from the very first that our men regarded the feminine part of our expedition very much in the light of an American dine show... Why talk to them of our experiences_ days with rhino, lion, leopard. It akways seems to me that when anything you have done in the past looms very large and splendid in your eyes, it argues that you have not accomplished much today.

Guns and Gears - Agnes Hebert

It's not unusual these days to see women hunting deer or other big or small game. But, of course, it hasn't always been so. Czech, a history professor and antiquarian booksller from St. Cloud, writes about the early women who hunted big game, usually with their husbands and often on safaris in Africa. As Czech writes, the story of women as big-game hunters is virtually unknown. Until now.

Star Tribune Mn

We had known from the very first that our men regarded the feminine part of our expedition very much in the light of an American dine show... Why talk to them of our experiences_ days with rhino, lion, leopard. It akways seems to me that when anything you have done in the past looms very large and splendid in your eyes, it argues that you have not accomplished much today.
— Agnes Hebert, Author of Two Dianas in Alaska

Guns and Gears

After closing the back cover of With Rifle and Petticoat, hunters of this century will take pride inthe moxie of the women before them who blazed now forgotten trails into the sport of hunting.
— Marilyn Stone

Women in The Outdoors

With Rifle and Petticoat is a not-to-be-missed read as you share adventures, misadventures and emotions of these intrepid women huners.
— Linda Hoff

Women's Outlook

Amazingly, this book by Ken Czech is the first to deal specifically with woman as big game hunters and authors of big game hunting books. As you will see, their accomplishments in the hunting field have been substantial.
— Ellen Enzler, Herring from the foreword

Guns and Gear