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Has anybody round here read this book? I just ordered it and i am lookin forward to reading it.

I received the book for Christmas, and as a matter of fact just last night started diving into it.  I've heard others on this forum talk about it.

It's an excellent book. It's all written in the direct words of the people that the author interviewed... so there is plenty of colorful language. The importance of dogs in these peoples' lives is apparent. You'll enjoy it.

Sean

Read it several times, love it!

For a Florida Boy pick up "A Land Remembered" By Patrick D. Smith if you have never read it. It is similar but Fl Cracker style. A real good read!

Best book I have ever read

But I will have to get ahold of The Big Thicket Legacy

Patrick Smith has some other good books that ive read there titles are The river is home, set in louisiana, Allapattah, there are a couple of others but i cant think of there titles, ill have to check out the big thicket

can anybody tell me how to order these 2 books ?

I was told that The Big Thicket Legacy is no longer in print.  The copy I was given for Christmas was purchased off Ebay.  Not sure if it's new or used, but if used you can't tell.

amazon has both of them

Can someone read it to me!!I'm not a good reader!!!! If it's any thing like a movie I can't make it past the previews!! ;D
I heard it was good!!

I got my copy of Big THicket Legacy from barnes and nobel in the mall. They had a copy on the shelf. The book is an awsome read. I especially loved it when i found out that my family has some history in the book! :o

Ordered a few books includeing this one on friday. Cant wait to get them tuesday.

Big Thickett Legacy is a great book.......lots of reference to stock bred Cur dogs in there.


Waylon

http://web3.unt.edu/untpress/catalog/serieslist.cfm?serieskey=Temple Big Thicket Series (http://web3.unt.edu/untpress/catalog/serieslist.cfm?serieskey=Temple Big Thicket Series)

They have them for sale at the University of North Texas Press. 

it's very good ,even i was able to read it. NO COMMENTS DJ. ;D

Almost finished with this book, and I wish it was longer, awesome book, I'm gonna look up big thicket legacy next.

The big thicket legacy is a good read And the Backwoodsman  is very good also it's also about the big thicket

Hay Guys, I think this might be the place that has the taped oral tv intervirews fo Jude Hart about his parrents and blackmouth cur dogs, can somebody call them and ask them if there is a video availble or any archival tape of the actual interview at this college one could see or view somehow????  Thanks for the link, i betting this is where the orginal tape is hidding  out, i been asking the U of T for years and they act like i was mistaken and now i am betting i am, it must be here at North texas in  file somewhere i am thinking.

What is the big thicket legacy about? Love to read a good book

land remebered is by far the best book of its type that i have read. once you pick it up you dont want to put it down, also another great book is the way it was very simlar to land remembered...

tell me about  " the way it was " how to get it  . a land remembered is the best book i ever read . my peaple went there at the same time , passed down the same kind of stories and were right in the thick of everything that book talked about. from the bears and panthers to indians , outlaws , hurricanes , alligators , hogs and cattle . reading was like sittin on the porch listening to my grandaddy . he lived it !

jdt a old timer loaned me the book to read. i think it is listed down in the florida historical sociaty? google it im sure it will pop up. it takes place around barbervill, fl. its based on the like of an old fl. cracker mose barber he was one bad sob. must read...

"Land Remembered" looks real good and the first few pages on Amazon kinda reeled me in.  I think I will have to order it.  I cant find "The Way it Was" on Amazon I am going to have to do some digging, do yall know the author?

alright here it is the book title is floridas frontier, the way hit wuz, written by shearhart, mary ida bass barber. just google some of that if that dont turn up something let me know

I found it but it is a limited print deal, have yall ever read this one?

The Florida Cow Hunter-The Life and Times of Bone Mizell
http://www.amazon.com/Florida-Cow-Hunter-Times-Mizell/dp/0813009855/ref=pd_sim_b_1

when you read the way it was your going to learn all about some of the mizells. not sure about bone but theres one named bud i belive and the mizells were as crooked as rattle snakes. man i get fire up thinking about what all happened to the crackers back then...

All good reads

Waaaaayyyyy of the topic but if you like good reading check out "The Duke of Duval"  it is about George Parr and politics in a small South Texas town.

There are a bunch of  Florida cracker hisotry and cow working and hog dogging books at a Western Wear Store Called Byrds Western Wear close to Melborne off of 192, i bought about 5 there and there were kewl, there are also a lot of cracker books and dog books at Claremont Florida lake county at the old Citrus Tower book store, lots of the best hard to find doging books i have came from that place in new mexico owned by the greyhound lurcher guy, i thinking his website is called HighLOnesome, or something like that, he adveries about 4 times a year in the Full Cry Magazine, lots of boar and bear dog books from the Carolians about Plotts on his book list, in San Antonio there is a antique book store by the old Zoo and playland park, i bought a lot of vintage dog/texas/hill county/ old yellar lacy books and catahoula bok from ARF foundation from it, they get them from yard sales and estate sales, always cheap and off the wall weird one run publicions about texas la and okla mostly,  anybody know the name of this bookstore, i cant remeber it to google and post the link, anybody read or collect all of Obe Corys Books about dogs especially the early descritions of texas bred dogs, i have all of them here somewhere i think still, his family had abotu 500 of them left when he died and i thought somebody could call his boys and try to buy them for reasle and to get the history out and his writings, he was a real dogman for sure and one of my idols, he loved treeing Lacys and had the Trimlbe strain i think, not sure, they were about died out when i met him and went looking with him for some in Freciksriksburg texas way back.  Somebody swears the Bandera cowboy muesum has the book for sale when i called they had no idea who he was or any notion of the 6 books he wrote about dogs, lion hunting lacys etc etc, what a shame too.