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