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Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers

Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers

Thad Sitton

University of Texas Press
2010
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Around a campfire in the woods through long hours of night, men used to gather to listen to the music of hounds' voices as they chased an elusive and seemingly preternatural fox. To the highly trained ears of these backwoods hunters, the hounds told the story of the pursuit like operatic voices chanting a great epic. Although the hunt almost always ended in the escape of the fox-as the hunters hoped it would-the thrill of the chase made the men feel "that they [were] close to something lost and never to be found, just as one can feel something in a great poem or a dream."Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers offers a colorful account of this vanishing American folkway-back-country fox hunting known as "hilltopping," "moonlighting," "fox racing," or "one-gallus fox hunting." Practiced neither for blood sport nor to put food on the table, hilltopping was worlds removed from elite fox hunting where red- and black-coated horsemen thundered across green fields in daylight. Hilltopping was a nocturnal, even mystical pursuit, uniting men across social and racial lines as they gathered to listen to dogs chasing foxes over miles of ground until the sun rose. Engaged in by thousands of rural and small-town Americans from the 1860s to the 1980s, hilltopping encouraged a quasi-spiritual identification of man with animal that bound its devotees into a "brotherhood of blood and cause" and made them seem almost crazy to outsiders.
Gray's Well

Gray's Well

Kay

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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It's a cold November night but things are hotting up in the Parish Rooms in the wealthy village of St. John. On the agenda is desire, murder and blackmail but only one of them knows why. The old General is dead and his beautiful home Well Grange is up for sale. The new Localism Act allows for the Council to buy it for the community but someone wants it for themselves. Della the corrupt clerk and Bad Bob a blackmailing fixer manipulate the plan but who is controlling them? Beautiful Councillor Kate wants Chairman Gray but not for the right reasons. He wants her but that isn't more important than what he really needs to do. As old Councillors go two very interesting women join up but with someone else's agenda. Who is behind it all and who has more to gain than validation from the electorate? Perhaps the answer lies seventy years ago in the diaries of the old butler at the house. Professor Riley Ridgeway digs deep to reveal the secret of Well Grange but will that be the end of the mystery?If you thought Parish Councils were dull find out what they might really be up to.