Twenty Years' Snipe-Shooting: Extracts From The Daily Journal Of The Game-Books Of The Snipery (1899)

Twenty Years' Snipe Shooting is a detailed, methodical daily account of Pringle's best days afield during 1867-1887, as extracted from his shooting journals. The practice of recording each day's hunt was common in Europe but infrequent in North America. Julius Pringle, a wealthy planter, owned Torwood Plantation in Pointe Couple Parish northwest of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He also had holdings near Franklin, Louisiana such as Ashley, Ironwood, and Camperdown, and a plantation near Georgetown...