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Images of the Hunt: A Photographic History of Texas Waterfowling (2020)

Images of the Hunt: A Photographic History of Texas Waterfowling (2020)

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Images of the Hunt: A Photographic History of Texas Waterfowling is a pictorial celebration of Texas waterfowl hunting, its over 240 images capturing crane, goose, duck, and shorebird hunting from about 1900 to the end of the century. The images show how hunters got to the field, progressing from mules to trains to automobiles, sails to motorboats and airboats, and the many kinds of marsh buggies that were developed over the years. The reader will follow where the hunter stayed in the field – from tents to trapper shacks, camps to houseboats and hunting clubs, as well as the evolution of gadgets and gear sportsmen used in the field, their firearms, duck boats, blinds, decoys, and retrievers. In short, it’s a nostalgic look back through the eyes of the sportsman to a time and place that, for the most part, no longer exists. 

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R.K. Sawyer

R.K. Sawyer is the author of A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting: The Decoys, Guides, Clubs, and Places, 1870s to 1970s (2012), Texas Market Hunting: Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws (2013), Images of the Hunt: A Photographic History of Texas Waterfowling (2020), and The Texas Tarpon Club (2023). He is also a contributing writer to Wildfowl, Project Upland, and Clay Target Nation magazines. The seeds of Rob's lifelong waterfowl hunting passion were first sown in 1964 on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. Rob currently resides in Sugar Land, TX, with his wife Wendy and Matagorda Mattie, a black Labrador Retriever. He can be found each year from September through February prowling the Texas prairie and coast in search of ducks, geese, and snipe.

Rob was recently featured on the popular duck hunting podcast: Duck Season Somewhere. Check out each episode through the links below!

Finding Comfort in Numbers, Then versus Now

Rob Sawyer, 100 Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting

Texas Market Hunting, Game Laws, and Outlaws Part 1: Waterfowl Was Big Business

Texas Market Hunting, Game Laws, and Outlaws Part 2: Outlaw Gunners and Stings

"Mallards held in the clear upper prairie potholes, swans and geese gritted along sandy shorelines behind barrier islands, and wood ducks rose in clouds through the river timber. It was an easy land for fowl, but not so much for man. It was wild and raw, and we thought it would never change and it did." 

Images of the Hunt: A Photographic History of Texas Waterfowling

Endorsements for Images of the Hunt

Images of the Hunt: A Photographic History of Texas Waterfowling is the third volume in R.K. Sawyer's Texas waterfowl history series. The work is an image record of Texas duck hunting from the late 1800s, and the century-old images provide a fascinating look at those that came before us. The student of Texas waterfowl hunting will be grateful for the view.

G.K. Chambers, author of A History of North American Goose Hunting: Images of the Morning's Sport

Images of the Hunt is a treasure to be enjoyed not only by the hunter but anyone who has an appreciation for Texas history or the outdoors. Rob has captured the evolution of Texas wildfowl hunting through rare historical photographs and brings it to life with “how it was” at the turn of the last century to the end of the 20th century. I am amazed by the story.     

Jim Moloney, author of 1919: The Storm, and Corpus Christi: A History

For anyone who ever wondered what it was really like to hunt waterfowl in Texas throughout the 20th century, who wondered if those fantastic, incredible stories possibly could be true, here’s the proof. In pictures and words, these pages tell the stories of passionate waterfowlers who happened to live in exactly the right place at the right time.

Doug Pike, Host of the Doug Pike on KBME and Fifty+ on KTRH and KPRC