Archibald H Rutledge

In 1937, after decades in the North, Archibald Rutledge returned to the "hyacinth days and camellia nights" of his native Carolina Lowcountry to restore his family home, Hampton Plantation. Originally published in 1947, these pages describe, in intimate and compelling detail, the plantation life he ...

Excerpt from Old Plantation DaysHe is not like another oneOf all my friends. He stands alone.Beyond the field and bounding wood,Far on the seashore's solitude,A Tree behind a rugged RockHas long withstood the breaker's shock.The Rock is bold and clean and hard;Its face by tempests old is scarred.It ...

The story of Rutledge's return after 44 years to Hampton Plantation, his boyhood home. Built in 1730, the stately mansion and its extensive grounds and woodlands are now one of South Carolina's state parks. The restoration of this house and reminiscences about Rutledge's early years there captures t...

To have been able, during a matter of nearly thirty years, to follow the game trails of the great plantation region of the delta of the Santee this has been my privilege. I have seen my homeland undergo great transformations during those years: the plantations have for the most part become waste tra...

Carolina Christmas collects for the first time holiday stories of Archibald Rutledge (1883-1973), one of the most prolific outdoor and nature writers of the twentieth century and the first poet laureate of South Carolina. Some of Rutledge's finest writing revolves around his vivid memories of hunt, ...

Archibald Rutledge has long been recognized as one of the finest sporting scribes this country has ever produced. A prolific writer who specialized in stories on nature and hunting, over the course of a long and prolific career Rutledge produced more than fifty books of poetry and prose, held the po...

A wonderful little book of meditations which illustrates Rutledge's love of nature, his deep faith and his spiritual vision. This is a sweet little book of reveries on the blessings that lie in the little unnecessary things of life. Creation supplies us with just two kinds of things: necessities and...

Archibald Rutledge's great deer-hunting stories.