Bøger af Saxton Pope

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Książka Lucznictwo Indian Yahi (ang. Yahi archery) opisuje lucznictwo indiańskie na podstawie informacji pozyskanych przez autora od Ishi, ostatniego z plemienia Yahi. Dr S.T. Pope spotkal Indianina Ishi w 1911 roku. Stal się jego bliskim przyjacielem i osobistym lekarzem; nauczyl się języka Yana i spędzili razem wiele czasu strzelając z luku i polując. Zapoznal się wtedy z pierwotnymi technikami robienia luku i strzal, strzelania oraz polowania z lukiem. Pope jest autorem kilku prac dotyczących medycyny i lucznictwa: Yahi archery, A Study of Bows and Arrows, Hunting with the Bow & Arrow, Adventurous Bowman, The medical history of Ishi i kilku innych prac medycznych. Znany jest glównie jako popularyzator luku i strzal, obecnie jego prace są nieocenionym dokumentem przedstawiającym różne aspekty lucznictwa, zwlaszcza tego pierwotnego, które już wygaslo, a z którym mial on osobisty, bezpośredni kontakt.

It was, therefore, a distinct surprise to the first explorers of America that the natives used the bow and arrow so effectively. In fact, the sword and the horse, combined with the white man's superlative self-assurance, won the contest over the aborigines more than the primitive blunderbuss of the times. The bow and arrow was still more deadly than the gun. With the gradual extermination of the American Indian, the westward march of civilization, and the improvement in firearms, this contest became more and more unequal, and the bow disappeared from the land. The last primitive Indian archer was discovered in California in the year 1911. When the white pioneers of California descended through the northern part of that State by the Lassen trail, they met with a tribe of Indians known as the Yana, or Yahi. That is the name they called themselves. Their neighbors called them the Nozi, and the white men called them the Deer Creek or Mill Creek Indians. Different from the other tribes of this territory, the Yana would not submit without a struggle to the white man's conquest of their lands. The Yana were hunters and warriors. The usual California natives were yellow in color, fat and inclined to be peaceable.

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