American Sporting Periodicals: An Annotated Bibliography

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Since the 1800s, American periodicals devoted to field sports have been reporting developments in techniques, trends, legislation, conservation, and more. They therefore provide a detailed examination of the rich and broad history of hunting, fishing, foxhunting, and related shooting sports in America. American Sporting Periodicals: An Annotated Bibliography lists all the periodicals on field sports published in America from the early 1800s to 1950a total of more than 600 titles. Each entry lists information such as years of publication, frequency of issue, publisher, general content, and first and last date of issuance. The book also includes more than twenty-five images of magazine covers and front pages, diagrams that trace various name changes and mergers, and a detailed timeline. Exhaustively researched and carefully compiled, this first comprehensive listing of American sporting periodicals will serve as a valuable reference tool for collectors and researchers of field sports in America.

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Thanks to the herculean efforts of veteran bibliographer M. L. Biscotti, for the first time we have a trail map leading us along paths to long forgotten magazines, heretofore hidden byways to overlooked articles from major sporting scribes, and a veritable treasure trove of writings on the outdoors. This work constitutes an essential and invaluable starting point for any serious study of our countrys sporting past. -- Jim Casada, past president of the Association for the Bibliography of History, book columnist and editor-at-large for Sporting Classics, and author
American Sporting Periodicals is an exciting reference guide on its topic, bringing countless hours of research together in a single volume. Researchers and collectors will benefit greatly from M. L. Biscottis hard work to trace the evolution of sporting history as recorded daily, weekly, and monthly in the United States. -- John P. Connolly, George L. Ohrstrom Jr. Head Librarian, National Sporting Library and Museum
This is a splendid reference, remarkably detailed and thorough. It includes information on the earliest and most obscure American sporting papers and magazines, as well as the more familiar magazines from the first half of the twentieth century; Biscotti's notes at the end of each entry are particularly useful. * Callahan & Company Catalog *

Author Bio

M. L. Biscotti is a retired antiquarian bookseller with a passion for the literature of foxhunting. He is the author of The Borzoi Books for Sportsmen (1992), The American Sporting Book Series (1994), The Bibliography of American Sporting Books (1997), Paul Brown: Master of Equine Art (2001), and Six Centuries of Foxhunting: An Annotated Bibliography (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).