Reading Group Book List

The foxhunting reading group discussed the following books in the month indicated:
May 2016: Some Experiences of an Irish RM by Somerville & Ross
June 2016: A Long Way to Go by Marigold Armitage
June 2016: Chapter 5, Attributes of a Good Hound from Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages by Joseph B. Thomas
July 2016: The Great Hound Match of 1905 by Martha Wolfe
August 2016: The Fox in the Cupboard by Jane Shilling
September 2016: Risk in the Afternoon by William Prickett
September 2016: Red Coats Galloping by John Welcome
October 2016: The Lady Blows a Horn by Nancy L. Mohr (biography of Nancy Penn Smith Hannum)
November 2016: The Millbeck Hounds: A Collection of Hunting Stories by Gordon Grand
November 2016: Chapter 6, Comments on Hunting a Pack from Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages by Joseph B. Thomas
December 2016: A Horse for Christmas Morning by Gordon Grand
January 2017:  Mr. Merston's Hounds by John Welcome
February 2017: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
March 2017:  The Old Man Hunts
April 2017:  Letters to a Young Huntsman by Andrew Barclay
May 2017:  Foxhunters Speak by Mary Motley Kalergis
June 2017:  Foxhunting Adventures by Norman Fine
July 2017:  Foxhunting in North America by Alexander Mackay-Smith
August 2017:  Gallops by David Gray
September 2017:  The Fox by Lionel Edwards
October 2017:  Ronnie Wallace: A Manual of Foxhunting by Michael Clayton
November 2017:  American Foxhunting: An Anthology by Alexander Mackay-Smith
December 2017:  no new book
January 2018:  The Year 'Round by Guy Wheeler
February 2018:  Gone Away by Mason Houghland
March 2018:  Lure of the Chase by Michael Sinclair-Smith
April 2018:  Foxhunting with Melvin Poe by Peter Winants
May 2018:  Dainty, A Story of a Foxhound by Ralph Greaves
June 2018:  Fox Hunting by the Duke of Beaufort
July 2018:  The Book of the Fox by Richard Clapham
August 2018:  Thoughts on Hunting by Peter Beckford
October 2018:   The Derrydale Press Treasury of Foxhunting edited by Norman Fine
November 2018:  See You at Second Horses by Barclay Rives
December 2018:  Further Experiences of an Irish RM and/or In Mr. Knox's Country, both by Somerville & Ross
January 2019:  The White Foxes of Gorfenletch by Henry Tegner
February 2019:   The High Mettled Racer by  Ernest Lewis
March 2019:  Goodnight Ladies! by Christiana Hannum Potter
April 2019:  Famous Foxhunters by Daphne Moore
May 2019:  Yonder He Goes by Ralph Greaves
June 2019:  Red Letter Days by Molly Keane and Snaffles
July 2019:  Tallyho and Three White Stockings by Moyra Charlton
August 2019:  The Fox's Prophecy by D. W. Nash with commentary by R. W. F. Poole
September 2019:  The works of J. Stanley Reeve
October 2019:  Martha Doyle and Other Sporting Memories by Richard E. Danielson
December 2019 and January 2020:  Assorted books on hunting in Ireland --
My Privileged Life by Thady Ryan
The Ryan Family and the Scarteen Hounds by Michael MacEwan
The Hounds of Cloneen by Vivian Connell
Irish Adventure: A Fox Hunter's Holiday by Margaret Cabell Self
To Win the Hunt: A Virginia Foxhunter in Ireland by Jane McIlvaine
Hunting in Ireland by Colin Lewis
February 2020:  Continued discussion on hunting in Ireland
March 2020:  Various books on foxes and coyotes --
Red Fox:  The Catlike Canine by J. David Henry
The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton

Future possibilities
Snaffles: The Life and Work of Charlie Johnson Payne 1884-1967
Reminiscences of a Sporting Artist by Lionel Edwards
Paul Brown: Master of Equine Art by M. L. Biscotti
Michael Lyne: Sporting Artist by John Yeates
Country Pursuits: British, American, and French Sporting Art from the Mellon Collections in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by Malcolm Cormack
The History of Foxhunting by Roger Longrigg
Hunting Pie by Frederick Watson
Foxhunting: Theory and Practice by Henry A. Higginson
Hounds in the Hills by Edward A. Briggs
The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming by Shreve Stockton