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Hounds & Hunting - The Beagler's Bible
Description
This year, 2005 marks the 102nd Anniversary of Hounds and Hunting and it would be a sacrilege to let this important milestone pass without referring to its origin and its history, as well as to give due credit for the many fine programs it has sponsored, the great knowledge it has imparted, and the open mindedness with which it has permitted discussions and innovations to be aired, uncensored, throughout its pages over the years.
To those who have recently chosen to become involved with our breed and sport it is easy to understand how you might naturally assume that things in beagling were always as you find them today. Cozy clubhouses, fenced in running areas, superhighways, fast traveling autos and planes were nonexistent when organized beagling began. The first American gasoline automobile (The Duryea) did not come into being until 1892, two years after the National Beagle Club ran the first licensed Beagle Field Trial. The first airplane with a motor was put together by the Wright Brothers in 1903, the same year as the first copy of Hounds and Hunting was published. Today we have over four million miles of paved highways, trouble free fast moving vehicles and airports in most major cities so distance, time, and inconvenience is no problem when moving about from place to place. Therefore, we no longer have to possess the hardiness of our pioneer predecessors who had nothing to rely on except railroads and the horse and buggy for transportation. How many of us today would have the fortitude to embark on a venture such as the one they faced, under the conditions they were required to endure, and persist, as they had done against tremendous odds to create a sport that would endure to furnish succeeding generations untold pleasures. They started with practically nothing, from scratch, and we are reaping, and will continue to reap benefits from their efforts far into posterity.
Hounds and Hunting also started from scratch. It was a dream in the minds of the original publishers who envisioned the potential popularity of our breed and had enough faith in the Beagle, as a breed, to devote time, money and effort toward making this dream become a reality. 1903 was not an encouraging year for beginning a publication devoted to a breed and sport that had shown little growth up until that time, so it appears the magazine was created more out of love of the beagle, and as a challenge towards its promotion than because of any expectation of a profit, and certainly the first years of publications showed no indication that the magazine's popularity would ever live up to the hopes of its creators.
Contact
- Hounds and Hunting
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- Bradford PA
- US 16701
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- 814-368-6154
