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Subject: Cat-Fishing in the Ohio River
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:19:00 EDT


I hope everybody has had an opportunity to read the short story by John J.
Audobon called "Cat-Fishing in the Ohio River" first published in Ornithologic
al Biography (1835)

I would like to type it up and submit it to the list, but am unsure of who
may hold the current copyright. John Audobon is the naturalist after whom the
Audobon Society is named.

John Audobon was an early resident of Henderson County KY, where I first
found him in 1973 when looking at tax records for my Armstead Anderson. His
short story tells of his family taking residence in an abandoned cabin of the
town of Henderson, tells of how the family subsisted on hunting and fishing
and then goes on to give a description of the business of laying out and
servicing a trotline in the Ohio River. This is a marvelous account of
lifestyles of the 1810's in Henderson County from a participant and written
in a contemporary time frame.

If you have an interest of life in that period I highly recommend you track
down the story. I first came across it in Angler's Bible; Stoeger Publishing
Company; 1975.

Patrick J. Anderson
http://members.aol.com/patander73/home.htm

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