{"product_id":"hunters-9781604894271","title":"Hunters","description":"\u003cp\u003eEarly one winter morning, some years ago, just before daylight, a Big Foot \"loped across a gravel road\" in front of a big four-wheel-drive vehicle full of Memphis duck hunters, out near the levee, a little South of the fossil town of Austin, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs monsters go, for us, here, in the Deep American South, specifically in the Mississippi Delta, \"change\" has always been the main Boogabear in Chief. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Change was the big threat. We want our past to remain our present. Indeed, the Delta's most beloved and most useful natural resources \u003cem\u003eare\u003c\/em\u003e its \u003cem\u003edarkness\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ethe past\u003c\/em\u003e. Yet, odd as it may sound, no deep Dixie region in America has changed more than the Mississippi Delta. You may dispute that, and I guess we can talk about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, if \u003cem\u003echange\u003c\/em\u003e ruled as the invisible Godzilla, Big Foot was not threatening at all -- a welcome distraction, in fact; and, I believe, also a symbol of something like hope. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Best of all, Big Foot was not invisible. He had a shape. Big Foot was the monster, not them, the Deltans, and frankly that was a great relief.Even better, a Big Foot could be shot - stuffed, and stood up by the T.V. in the den! - with the wild turkey, a bobcat, a coyote, some wood ducks, the head and spikey antlers of an eight-point buck . . . and the barracuda from Biloxi. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Deltans are editors of the visible. Preference is the same as hope. God said: \"Let there be light!\" But we told him where to shine it. So, when word went out one day, here, from the Boll \u0026amp; Bloom Café, that a Big Foot had been sighted, all the usual Delta fears disappeared. Their importance collapsed. Curiosity was king. Obsession reigned, and . . . the \"Hunters\" arose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Well, two of them did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Livingston Press at the University of West Al\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781604894271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d","brand":"John Pritchard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53273473188021,"sku":"9781604894271","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781604894271.jpg?v=1789485816","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hunters-9781604894271","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}