Category

Dog

Hunting dogs, including Walker, blue tick, redbone and other hounds and curs, have long been used to drive possums, raccoons, fox, and deer. In Texas, hunting deer in this way has been gradually outlawed, and the sport’s departure has signaled the death of an old tradition and culture, as well as the end of the open range.

Interviews

Narrator: Richard DonovanTitle: PostedDuration: 00:02:14Date: May 14, 2020Richard Donovan, a long-time Lufkin resident active in the real estate and timber industries, recalls the tense times of the 1940s and 50s when lumber companies began excluding hunters and their hounds from the forest.Narrator: Mary Evelyn McNamaraTitle: DomesticatedDuration: 00:02:45Date: November 22, 2024Mary Evelyn McNamara, an experienced Austin attorney in the family law field, has helped clients deal with disputes about the ownership of a beloved family pet. Here she describes how attitudes about the care of a pet have evolved in her own life, and perhaps come closer to recognizing the companionship and love they provide, as well as an ethical duty to an animal we have domesticated and made largely dependent on us.Narrator: Billy Platt, Sr.Title: Deer DogsDuration: 00:03:59Date: March 1, 2008Billy Platt, Sr., a game warden and pasture rider based in Jasper, Texas, recalls the strain and violence between cattle raisers and dog-running deer hunters in east Texas communities as the country was fenced off after WWII.