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From: "Betty Sellers" <>
Subject: Re: Cat-Fishing in the Ohio River
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:57:18 -0700


Pat if that copyright is safe - it would be a wonderful article for Netta to
place on the Henderson Co ALHN page - the ALHN is for history of that type
and would be great!

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Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 11:19 AM
Subject: Cat-Fishing in the Ohio River


> 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.html
>

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