Pine Needles (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Robert Rebertus | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

The sixty-year period following the American Civil War was a time of great wealth accumulation and materialistic excess. America became dominated by men of outsized fortunes and the country developed an aristocracy of the privileged. Some new moguls established opulent hunting lodges in the South and leased tens of thousands of acres for quail hunting. This book examines the reasons for the new wealth, why quail were the preferred quarry of Gilded Age barons, what attracted the hunting moguls to the North Carolina Piedmont, what became of them and their hunting estates, and how the transformation of the American landscape caused the collapse of quail populations once thought limitless. Here, hunting lodges in and near Guilford County, North Carolina are explored. The Pine Needles lodge, established in 1912, is examined in detail with novel stories based on records, memorabilia, and recollections of descendants of those involved in the establishment and management of the lodge.