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I'll be presenting a talk on conservation and Theodore Roosevelt at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site (virtually) as part of their Speakers series. The talk will be on April 26, 2022, and will be available for viewing afterward. I'll add that URL when it's available-- but please join us on Tuesday the 26th if you can at www.TRSite.org
Thanks to Lenora Henson for this wonderful image promoting the talk!
AVAILABLE NOW !
Amazon will let you have a look inside...
It's also available from Barnes and Noble with a preview of their Nook Book version available.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-hunter-elite-tara-kathleen-kelly/1128089750?ean=9780700625888
I should add, of course you could also... well, I'm not delusional enough to think it's in the window display of your local bookstore! But they could certainly order it for you if you liked... and in these times especially, it's great to support your local bookstores!
H-Net called it "An impressive and provocative study that makes several notable contributions to the historiography. . . . " while the American Historical Review wrote that "Anyone interested in this topic should read Kelly's lively, well-researched, and thoughtful book."
University Press of Kansas has a blog featuring interviews with their authors and contributors. In March 2018 I had the chance to talk about the book and also the sources and the way the research developed.
UPK blog .... http://universitypressblog.dept.ku.edu/2018/03/ Scroll down... or read the interviews with some of their other authors!
Janury 2019 -- Companionate travel? What an interesting idea! I published a chapter, "Goddess and Leader: Conflict and Companionship in Agnes Herbert's Hunting Travelogues," in Gender, Companionship and Travel from Routledge. It examines Agnes Herbert's hunting book Two Dianas in Alaska, co-written with a fellow hunter identified only as "the Leader" (actually Major Charles Radclyffe), the ways the two authors presented gender and travel (focusing on two dramatic grizzly attacks), and the book's critical reception. Available now via Routledge's website or on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Companionship-Travel-Discourses-International-ebook/dp/B07K8Y4494
To the right, a strange sight: Agnes Herbert without her rifle.
Transcribing History through Crowd Sourcing
Transcribing History through Crowd Sourcing
In 1895 William Dolliver travelled around Gloucester, MA, making a record of the graveyards. In his handwritten manuscript, he assigned each tombstone a number and recorded the inscription; eventually all his work was collected in a series of volumes. The Gloucester Cemeteries Committee is currently working on a project to digitize all of this early information, but they are faced with a dilemma -- Dolliver is hard to read! The answer: crowdsourcing, asking interested volunteers to chip in on transcribing Dolliver, five pages at a time. For more information see the website: https://sites.google.com/view/volunteer-local-history/home
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UPDATE: We are FINISHED with volumes 1 and 2! I also contributed a short "Note on Dolliver and Accuracy." Find the project at
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Along with being a great project, this also offers an amazing and sometimes heartbreaking glimpse into the past. From the tombstone of Martha Locke, who died at 23 on Nov. 17, 1796-- and her daughter, who died Jan. 22, 1797, at 8 months:
Of life, though Youth, a flattering picture drew,
She sighed, and bade a worthless world adieu.
Torn from her arms, her cherub infant lies
like a falling flower, and withering, fades, and dies.
By Angels borne, it speeds to Heaven, & there
it Blooms forever Fresh, forever Fair.
Celestial Saints, one passing tear forgive,
while not for You, but for Ourselves, we grieve.
History Mystery
History Mystery
Agnes Herbert travelled with, hunted with, and even wrote with a man, long identified only by the pseudonyms she used for him -- in the text she called him "the Leader," while the book they wrote together identified him only as "A Shikari" (a Persian word for hunter, often used for both British big-game hunters and African gunbearers). Historian Mary Zeiss Stange did some thoughtful and painstaking sleuthing and tentatively identified him as Major Charles Radclyffe. I had read her work and so, when I happened upon a copy of Two Dianas in Alaska for sale, autographed by that same man to his mother, I was able to confirm her thesis: Radclyffe was indeed the mystery co-author!
(Sorry about the image quality, I'm working on it):
To My Mother
This book is presented trusting that she may find some interest in the perusal of a work which contains a phantastic record of actual events witnessed by her son in far off Arctic regions
"A Shikari" C.G. Radclyffe 1908
Radclyffe's grandson Nick maintains a fun website that covers his distillery (rhubarb gin?! Sign me up!) as well as providing readers with information about his fascinating big-game hunting Edwardian grandfather-- including his copious tattoos!
Update: Like so many things on the internet, this has, sadly, disappeared. Thankfully we still have this wonderful image.
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