A Thousand Deer: Four Generations of Hunting and the Hill Country

	A Thousand Deer: Four Generations of Hunting and the Hill Country
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	In November, countless families
	across Texas head out for the annual deer hunt, a ritual
	that spans
	generations, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and gender as
	perhaps no other
	cultural experience in the state. Rick Bass's family has
	returned to
	the same hardscrabble piece of land in the Hill Country
	"the Deer
	Pasture" for more than seventy-five years. In A Thousand
	Deer, Bass
	walks the Deer Pasture again in memory and stories,
	tallying up what
	hunting there has taught him about our need for wildness
	and wilderness,
	about cycles in nature and in the life of a family, and
	particularly
	about how important it is for children to live in the
	natural world.

	The
	arc of A Thousand Deer spans from Bass's boyhood in the
	suburbs of
	Houston, where he searched for anything rank or fecund in
	the little
	oxbow swamps and pockets of woods along Buffalo Bayou, to
	his commitment
	to providing his children in Montana the same opportunity
	a life
	afield that his parents gave him in Texas. Inevitably
	this brings him
	back to the Deer Pasture and the passing of seasons and
	generations he
	has experienced there. Bass lyrically describes his own
	passage from
	young manhood, when the urge to hunt was something
	primal, to mature
	adulthood and the waning of the urge to take an animal,
	his commitment
	to the hunt evolving into a commitment to family and to
	the last wild
	places.


	Date Published: 2021-04-03 01:53:13
	Identifier: a-thousand-deer
	Item Size: 174263909
	Media Type: texts

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