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Author Rutledge, Archibald, 1883-1973.

Title Claws / Archibald Rutledge ; introduction by Jim Casada ; afterword by Ben McC. Moïse ; illustrations by Stephen Chesley
Published Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Claws -- Afterword
Summary Unseen by readers for a century, Archibald Rutledge's story "Claws" is a fast-paced adventure tale of a young boy, Paul, lost in the foreboding terrain of Spencer's Swamp, the domain of the mighty bobcat Claws, which is deftly evading hounds and hunters alike. When Paul and Claws encounter one another at a perilous creek crossing, Rutledge's mastery of outdoors storytelling shines through in every evocative word. The short story "Claws" was written for publication in an early 20th century boy's magazine and was first collected in the privately printed Eddy Press edition of Old Plantation Days (c. 1913). Limited to just a few hundred copies, the Eddy Press edition is highly prized by Rutledge collectors and includes five stories -- "Claws," "The Doom of Ravenswood," "The Egret's Plumes," "The Heart of Regal" and "The Ocean's Menace"--Not found in the more widely available 1921 Stokes edition of Old Plantation Days. A project of the Humanities Council SC benefiting the South Carolina Book Festival, this new edition of Claws is illustrated in handsome charcoal etchings by Southern artist Stephen Chesley. Award-winning outdoors writer and noted Rutledge scholar Jim Casada provides the volume's introduction and retired South Carolina conservation officer Ben McC. Moïse offers an afterword. Archibald Rutledge (1883--1973) was South Carolina's most prolific writer and the state's first poet laureate. His nature writings garnered him the prestigious John Burroughs Medal
Notes "A Project of the Humanities Council SC."
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Subject Boys -- Fiction
Bobcat -- Fiction
Swamps -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
FICTION -- Action & Adventure.
Bobcat
Boys
Swamps
SUBJECT South Carolina -- Fiction
Subject South Carolina
Genre/Form Action and adventure fiction
Fiction
Adventure fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781611174236
1611174236