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fatehbaz · 7 years ago

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Hey bud, Oklahoma is most definitely the Midwest. I’m a Native Texan through and through and those guys are completely Midwestern. Nothing wrong with that. I love me some Midwest, but it ain’t Texas and it ain’t the South 😉 🤠 🥩

If nothing else comes of this response - if no one has time to read such a lengthy discussion of Oklahoma’s relationship with nearby cultural regions - I highly recommend checking-out one of the best short essays on Oklahoma’s ambiguous cultural identity: South by Midwest: Or, Where is Oklahoma? by Russell Cobb (It sounds like you might enjoy this.)

Thanks for the input and interest. I appreciate it. I just want to expand on this discussion for anyone else following-along. So, please don’t think that I condescending to you! I do agree that a lot of Oklahoma is closely aligned with the essentially-Midwestern “Great Plains cultural region.” I agree with your sentiment.

However, I’m going to try to make a (friendly!) argument here for considering Oklahoma as split 3 ways between the Great Plains, the Upland South, and the Texas Triangle. Just as a thought experiment.

If there’s one individual region that you had to place Oklahoma in, I’d say it’s “the Great Plains.” Not Midwest. Not Texas. “The Great Plains.” But you can get a lot more precise.

I hope to show that, at the very least, eastern Oklahoma is more closely aligned with the Upland South rather than with the Midwest, through it’s shared folk culture, linguistics, commuter movement patterns, deciduous forest ecology, upland topography, cash exchange, and Baptist religion. (Many residents in this Ozark-ian southeastern Oklahoma would never claim Midwestern identity.) I’ll also try to demonstrate the close relationships between Texas (especially Dallas) and Oklahoma culture, through shared cattle ranching economy, fracking industries, oil business, freight and shipping, football obsession, and religion; the oil and cattle industries of Oklahoma particularly are more similar to Texas economy than they are to the Corn Belt economy of the rest of the Great Plains states.

I think it is not sufficient to call Oklahoma “definitely” part of the Midwest, because there are some distinctly different corners of the state that definitely aren’t.

I should acknowledge, though, that cultural regions are always open to debate - sometimes shifting, often different depending on the metrics they’re measured by - so input from everyone does matter. Cultural regions aren’t objectively set-in-stone.

So I’m not trying to act authoritative here and I’’m not at all saying “you’re wrong”! Just some food for thought for anyone interested.

In short:

Oklahoma, famously, has an identity crisis. Oklahoma sits at the ambiguous cross-roads of multiple cultural regions; the Pittsburgh and St. Louis areas are perhaps the only other US areas with so much confusion.

No one living in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, would agree that they are living in the Midwest; many residents here would identify as Southern, which is reflected in their familial heritage, cultural events, institutions, and place names. People living in Le Flore County identify as part of the Ozarks (the Upland South cultural region), especially due to the forested terrain and mountainous topography. People in Cimarron County, in the panhandle, say they’re from “the West” or adjacent to “the Southwest.” And yes, a lot of people in Osage County and areas north of Oklahoma City would agree they’re a part of “the Great Plains cultural region” (and many Americans consider the Great Plains to be included in the Midwest, along with the Great Lakes cultural region). In fact, many Oklahomans, especially in the heavily populated middle of the state, do firmly believe that they are vaguely Midwestern.

If you don’t want to hear my opinion, please scroll-down to where I’ve marked the big bold XXX’s, in order to read a great excerpt from that aforementioned article on Oklahoma culture, because I think it sums-up the situation well.

Generally? I agree with you! And many Oklahomans agree with you. Much of Oklahoma is aligned with the Great Plains cultural region, both economically and in the opinion of residents.

The case for considering parts of Oklahoma more closely related to Texas? Oklahoma City shares the economy of metro Dallas, including cattle ranching headquarters, oil businesses, banking, transportation and freight companies, and commuter and dollar exchange between the two cities; and much of central and southern Oklahoma is focused on fracking, Southern Baptist religion, and high school football.

However, I’d say that the clearest non-Midwestern portion of Oklahoma is the east’s alignment with the Upland South cultural region of the Ozarks.

And it gets more complicated from there, because describing Oklahoma depends on which metrics you’re using to assign it a cultural region. Economics? Commuter travel patterns? Linguistics? Rural folk culture? Place-of-origin of the people living there?

Below is my basic take on how Oklahoma is split among 3 general cultural regions. This cultural confusion of Oklahoma (is it the Great Plains, or the South, or perhaps the Southwest?) is actually a quality shared with Texas “Is Longview in the South? Is El Paso in the Southwest? Is Dallas part of the Great Plains?” Google “cultural regions of US map” and you’ll find that a lot of cartographers don’t bother to distinguish Texas as unique and place it in a Great Plains cultural region with Oklahoma.

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From demography studies, formal research interviews, and informal social media group discussion, the general consensus - which I agree with - seems to be that Oklahoma is culturally split 3 ways between the Upland South, Greater Texas, and the Great Plains.

In this scheme, Oklahoma aligns with 3 general cultural regions:

(1) The urban culture of Oklahoma City and the hinterland that it anchors are closely aligned with Dallas - the Texas cultural region - by way of its shared focus on cattle ranching economy, fracking industry, oil businesses, interstate transportation businesses, banking centers, and cash exchange; much of Oklahoma shares a love of West Texas-style football and Southern Baptist religion. (2) Areas east of Tulsa align with the Ozarks - an extension of the Upland South cultural region - sharing culture and linguistics with Southerners, and rural livelihoods and identities dependent on deciduous forested woodlands and hilly upland topography, as with southern Missouri and western Arkansas.(3) The western two-thirds of the state align with the Great Plains cultural region (Midwest, if you will) by way of the agricultural economy, cattle ranching, pig-farming, monoculture crops, accents, infrastructure, reliance on long stretches of open highway, and identities similar to, say, Kansas City.

Beyond that, some living in the panhandle identify as “Western” or “Southwestern.” Meanwhile some in McCurtain County go as far as to identify as part of the “Deep South,” where the Red River flows south of the Ouachita Mountains. But these 2 corners aren’t as well-established culturally as the aforementioned 3 regions.

I agree that much of the western two-thirds of the state - if it had to be categorized in a cultural region - aligns most with a “Great Plains” (essentially Midwestern) cultural region. However, Oklahoma east of Tulsa is heavily influenced by the Ozarks, a folk culture firmly rooted in the Upland South cultural region.

By the metric of urban economies, commuter travel, and cash exchange, here is how Oklahoma City and Tulsa align with the Texas cultural region (in a map of the “11 Emerging Urban Megaregions,” created by Regional Plan Association):

Here’s my map of an overly-specific 32 cultural regions of the US at a scale that would be analogous to a “Level III” scale as used in the US EPA’s ecoregion maps:

In this map, I want to point-out that the region I’m referring to “Llano Estacado (West Texas Plains)” - the region covering most of Oklahoma - is not meant to be interpreted as a specifically Texan culture. Instead, it is meant to be more reflective of the High Plains, a vaguely Great Plains-ish region, like a transition zone between the Midwest and West Texas. Also note how he darker brown color denoting the Texas Triangle is not solid and is instead cross-hatched as it extends into Oklahoma City, to show that urban Oklahoma is similar to Texas, but not firmly a part of Texan culture. (And yes, I know this map sucks, and some people will hate it, but it’s not meant to be definitive; I have a very long document describing how the regions were categorized if people are interested in exploring the subject further.)

Here’s a map that combines the “11 Emerging Urban Megaregions” by Regional Plan Association from above, with the boundaries of “the 7 American nations” as described by Joel Kotkin, in a map created by Clare Trainor:

So, this map has really generalized the distinctions between regions. I definitely think that Texas is unique enough to be its own cultural region if we were to be more specific. But, at this general level, it does make sense that Dallas and the Texas Triangle are depicted as related to Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Wichita and Kansas City. This makes sense, because the Dallas Metroplex is one of the Top 7 most populous urban areas in the whole country, and has an astonishing GDP partially because it is the US’s center of interstate freight; transportation generally; cattle and beef industries; and, interestingly, snack/junk food corporations like Frito-Lay, Dave & Buster’s, and Pizza Hut. These are all industries that rely on the corridor from Dallas, through Oklahoma and Kansas, to Chicago; as if the Great Plains present a wind-swept and desolate environmental barrier to be crossed by freight; it is a place without the dense development of the rest of the country, so it is industries like cattle and shipping which are particularly well-suited for the Plains.

To demonstrate both Oklahoma’s relationship with Texas and eastern Oklahoma’s alignment with the Upland South, here’s a map of religious group distribution in the US (source is included in the infographic):

Among demographers, the moniker “Bible Belt” is given to those regions dominated by the Southern Baptist church. Notice that Oklahoma is separated not just from nearby Kansas but also from the rest of the Great Plains and Midwest.

So, ultimately, my view of general cultural regions would distinguish 16 regions, and looks something like this:

Note that Oklahoma sits at the transition zone between Texas and the Great Plains, though eastern Oklahoma is more easily identifiable as Upland South. (And yes, I know people will hate this map; it’s not meant to be definitive. There are regions that will always be ambiguously aligned with more than one region, like Buffalo and western New York; St. Louis; Raleigh and Charlotte; eastern Montana; Oklahoma; the Pacific coast between Santa Rosa and Roseburg; northern Florida; and western Pennsylvania.)

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Anyway. I think anyone interested in American cultural regions would enjoy reading what native-Oklahoman author Russell Cobb has to say about Oklahoma’s cultural identity.

Some of the best excerpts:

Where is Oklahoma?(…) There it is, you would say, in the mid-south-central portion of the continental United States. But where is it culturally? Is it part of The South? The U.S. Census Bureau says so. Generations of venerable southern historians, such as C. Vann Woodward, have said so.(…)I was quickly shot down by the sister of a very good friend, who happens to live in Birmingham. “Oklahoma is not the South, Russ,” she said. “It’s the Midwest.” Another friend in Georgia sprung to my defense. “I’ve lived in the Deep South and Chicago. Oklahoma is definitely more Southern than Midwestern. Still, it’s not quite the South either.”

A good friend who considers a trip to Dallas to be a visit to a foreign country tried to argue that Oklahoma was its own region, that it shouldn’t be lumped together with any other state, especially not Texas. But this seemed strange, too, because there are some affinities between Texas and Oklahoma.

I also assumed that anyone not from a city spoke with an Oklahoma accent, which traces its genealogy back to Appalachia—a variation on the Southern accent. (…) A 2004 study of national speech patterns boiled American dialects down to six major groupings. Northeastern Oklahoma and southern Missouri are the northwestern limits of the southern accent. (…) Even if we Okies have a sort of Southern accent, though, that doesn’t make us Southerners. The Census Bureau may designate Oklahoma as the South, but what explains the visceral reaction of Georgians and Alabamans when an Okie claims to be from Dixie?

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when Oklahoma politicians made a deliberate effort to make the state part of the “Solid South,” a peculiar institution that guaranteed the one-party rule of the Democratic Party. The heyday of the “Solid South” lasted from the end of Reconstruction until the end of World War II. The strategy was all about, of course, disenfranchising black voters and wielding monolithic political control over state politics. Danney Goble, the recently deceased Oklahoma historian, explains it this way in the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture:

“The fact that much of the future state was settled by immigrating southerners had great influence on Oklahoma’s later politics. Its unwieldy constitution, its distrust of concentrated corporate and political power, its steady run-ins with federal authority, even its susceptibility to political corruption–all of these were qualities that the Sooner State shared with states of the Old Confederacy (…)”

The geographer Wilbur Zelinsky—one of the inventors of modern cultural geography—attempted to understand regional identity in the “vernacular.” Zelinsky wanted to understand how everyday folks defined themselves in terms of regional identity. Sorting through thousands of place names in hundreds of cities, he compiled a series of maps that showed how people identified their regions. Some of the regions were predictable. (…)

But, looking at Zelinksy’s maps today, it is Oklahoma that shows the biggest regional confusion. (…)

He noted that some places, like western Pennsylvania, were kind of stuck between Northeastern and Midwestern, but it was Oklahoma that had the greatest amount of regional identities. Five of the twelve vernacular identities that Zelinsky came up with converged on Oklahoma. For phone books in the very southeastern part of the state, Oklahoma was southern. In the panhandle, it was the “West.” Along the Kansas border, it was the Midwest. From Oklahoma City to the west, it was the “southwest.” (…)

Finally, in moments of brutal honesty, Okies will admit that their state is a variation of Texas. This is a painful admission, to be sure. “The whole state is like a suburb of Dallas,” a fellow Tulsan told a Canadian friend. “It’s Texas-light,” someone wrote during my interminable Facebook conversation. Politically, culturally and religiously speaking, there’s a good case to be made for this assertion. Texans and Oklahomans share the same affinity for hard-right, red-meat conservative politics, and they have large populations of Southern Baptists. Western Swing is a purely Texas-Oklahoma creation of Bob Wills, who belongs to both states. The accent is pretty much the same, although a bit stronger in Texas. There’s the big role oil companies play in the states’ economies. And, of course, there’s football. Both states are football crazed, but therein lies a complication: there is no greater sports hatred than that between the Sooners and the Longhorns.

I’ve tried to deconstruct the annual hatefest that is the OU-Texas game for my wife, a native Californian, who, before meeting me, had never watched a college football game. Part of what makes the game exciting, I told her, is that it’s played on a neutral site. So it’s not in Texas or Oklahoma, she wondered? Well, it’s in Dallas, I said. The idea that Dallas was somehow neutral seemed ludicrous, and, indeed, the more I thought about it, the more it seemed like Oklahomans had been bamboozled.

So, where is Oklahoma? It is in America’s Heart, someone said. Well, not quite, I rebutted. If you compare the map of the continental U.S. to the human body, you would have to conclude that Oklahoma is America’s pancreas. It’s in the mid-south-central of the body, and, although it doesn’t have the poetic resonance of the heart, it serves an important function. It breaks down proteins, carbs and fats. The pancreas is often overlooked until something terrible happens there, like a cancer—or the bombing of a federal building. But there it is, right there in the middle of everything, trying to make sense of all the substances coming through the system.

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Again, cultural regions are always open to interpretation and debate. I am not trying to officially decree Oklahoma’s sole cultural identity!

I’m just happy to discuss aspects of cultural identity, especially in a place like the US. Especially because the US - by nature of being full of millions of immigrants and colonists from diverse cultures - doesn’t really maintain a singular popular mythology or heritage. Like, the most central aspects of American culture shared by everyone regardless of culture-of-origin are things that were artificially constructed to enforce a national identity - things like Christmas, football season, McDonald’s. These didn’t spring naturally. However, local regional cultural identities - like Upland South, or Great Plains - have a lot more grounding in local ecosystems and lifestyles, and so they create some genuinely substantial and unique local cultures.

I’m very sorry for rambling. Honestly. I can’t help it. I’m glad this kind of discussion can happen on Tumblr.

Thanks again for the feedback!

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jimg-stuff · 4 years ago

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What is Airbnb Arbitrage? How Passive Airbnb is Possible?

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camping466-blog · 5 years ago

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What Hollywood Can Teach Us About Camper

We wagered great cash you'll find out at the very least one brand-new suggestion from this collection

SEARCHING STRATEGIES

1) GO EXTRA SLOW

Attempt utilizing your watch as an overview. Determine on a period of time to stand still, such as five minutes.

2) STOP AT THE NOISE

Here's a saying I developed to remind me of an animal's great detects. "The sound of a snapped twig is quickly failed to remember by the hunter, however long kept in mind by the quarry." If you make an unusually loud noise, stop and stand there as long as you can if you presume pets are close by. A deer may stand a long time as well as stare in your direction. If it doesn't see or scent you, it might return to feeding or whatever else it was doing before it was interrupted.

3) QUICK-STEPPING FOR DEER

A deer is quickly informed to human cadence as we walk through loud fallen leaves. This might sound like a dumb concept, but attempt taking quick action in a short sprint for 10 to 20 lawns or two. Stop, and do it once again. Maintain your tramps as light as possible; you'll be stunned at how much you seem like a squirrel clambering through the fallen leaves.

4) DESIGN A BETTER DRIVE

When placing a drive together, we tend to put standers in front of as well as together with the area being driven. If you have adequate people in your celebration, position a stander in the rear where the drive originated. Deer will often wait for seekers to pass and after that creep back and run off in the contrary direction.

5) DRIVE SOLO

Attempt a one-man drive if you're searching alone. Deliberately stroll into an area with the wind at your back. The idea is to stir deer up and also get them moving. As soon as you've travelled through, make a circle as well as do it again. You could see confused deer sneaking around, uncertain of your place. If this does not function, take a position on the flank of the area you walked through as well as wait an hour or 2. You might see deer sneaking back in, believing the danger has actually passed. This operates in thick thickets that deer make use of for safety cover.

6) PICK YOUR LANDMARKS

When you prepare to track an animal by making a huge circle and also turning up behind it, it's simple to become baffled as you alter your location. Choose an unique object on the horizon that you can acknowledge from the back, such as a large tree, a fence line or a rock, to help direct you to the correct spot.

7) JUDGE THE QUARRY'S PACE

Likewise attempt to anticipate where the animal will be when you finish your stalk. Prior to starting, watch the quarry enough time to identify its direction as well as price of travel if it's proactively feeding or strolling. Choose your destination appropriately.

8) FOLLOW WITH CARE

If you're tracking an animal, remember that the quarry will look out to its back trail. A really fresh track requires you practically to still-hunt rather than simply follow, especially if the pet isn't "lined out" however is taking attacks of browse as it goes.

9) CLEAR SHOOTING LANES

When you initially get involved in your tree stand, practice using up shooting settings for all the directions where an animal may show up. After doing that, attempt to get rid of branches unprotected if you can reach them, as well as use up the setting that calls for the least quantity of movement for you to kip down any kind of instructions. Make certain your security strap is safe and secure and also permits complimentary activity.

10) SWEEP AWAY BLIND CLUTTER

If you're sitting in a ground blind or standing beside a tree, move away leaves and also brush with your boot so the area you're in is tidy of woodland particles. This will certainly remove unnecessary sound if you have to make a relocation when an animal methods.

11) GLASS AND RE-GLASS

When glassing with a binocular early in the early morning, relocate to your vantage point in the dark. Glass likely areas, yet don't take just a solitary general look. Once in a while, redouble your focus on areas you've currently checked out. The transforming light could reveal animals you hadn't seen prior to or pets that have actually moved out of deep brush or lumber.

TRACKING

If other seekers are with you, interact with hand signals. Mark every spot of blood with a piece of toilet cells or flagging, which need to be eliminated later.

13 DON'T GIVE UP Many times an excellent blood route that you've complied with a long method will peter out to absolutely nothing. That's not a good indication, due to the fact that the pet is still going strong, yet it doesn't mean it isn't fatally injured. Do not surrender. Start seeking little places of blood. Jump on your hands as well as knees, if needed, to help keep you on the spoor.

14 CALL THE SPOT If you're searching in a brushy area and also you go down an animal at a range, make a psychological note of where it stood at the shot, especially if you must take your eyes off it to arrive. It's vitally important to find the precise area so you can grab the blood path.

15 BEWARE OF THE 'INSTANT DROP' A pet that goes down at the shot is more likely to run than one that doesn't drop but runs some range and then falls. The pet that falls immediately could do so from shock, then recover and run. When a pet goes down immediately, stay as well as be prepared for a quick follow-up shot.

16 NO EYE POKES Television hunting-show hosts like to walk up to a dropped pet as well as push it with the weapon muzzle to make sure it's dead. The last thing you want is for a pet to jump up when you're so close that you can't take action. If a pet's eyes are shut, it's most likely still alive.

17 LOOK UP FOR BLOOD When tracking a wounded animal, do not remain focused just on the ground. Try to find blood higher on the sides of trees, on lawn heads, as well as on stems of brush. Occasionally we're so intention at seeking traces on the woodland flooring that we completely miss out on hints off the ground.

THE COMPETITION

18 GETTING IN FIRST Many roadways are obstructed these days to limit automobile access, permitting just foot or equine web traffic. Seekers generally park at gates early in the morning and hike up roadways. When resolved, take a snooze and wait for other hunters to push deer to you as firing hrs technique, or look for unpressured deer feeding normally.

19 BIG-GAME HONEY HOLES If you're in huge country as well as wish to focus on the location where the probabilities are ideal of searching for game, look no further than a deep, greatly timbered canyon without roadways or significant trails to the bottom. Many seekers don't come down right into unpleasant areas because they know they'll have to climb up back out. The suggestion of hauling a deer or elk out of all-time low is a double problem that makes them even more prone to avoid these potentially game-rich areas.

20 DRIVE DOUBLE-DIPPING If you know of a drive being placed on by another party of hunters, try deciding well away from the group in hefty cover where startled deer might run. This is morally appropriate if you maintain an affordable distance from the celebration and also don't disrupt the drive.

21 DON'T FOLLOW THE LEADER If you're tracking a deer in snow and also suddenly discover that another hunter has come upon the tracks and also remains in front of you, there's clearly no sense in adhering to. Rather, quickly make a big circle and try to assail the deer. Chances are the various other seeker will just maintain pushing it in advance-- perhaps to you. Ethics need that you do this a considerable range where you believe the hunter could be. I 'd recommend at the very least a fifty percent mile or even more.

STAYING WARM

22 SLEEP IN COMFORT A cot in an unheated tent or cabin will maintain you cold all evening if you do not have a pad below your sleeping bag. If you have no pad, expanded apparel to protect you from the cool air under the cot. The loft in your bag is compressed from the weight of your body, as well as supplies little insulation when touching the thin material of a cot.

23 BRING YOUR BEST BAG Be sure you have your ideal resting bag along throughout a cold-weather hunt, also if you're in a camping tent or cabin with a timber cooktop. The fire will certainly head out throughout the night, and the temperature within will virtually equal the temperature level exterior. A light-weight summertime bag is just for that-- summer.

24 COLD-WEATHER HORSEMANSHIP Riding an equine in winter will certainly chill you rapidly if you end up resting for long periods of time. Heat up by strolling the horse downhill. Not only will this obtain your blood relocating, but it's also excellent horsemanship to offer the pet a break.

UPLAND GAME/WATERFOWL

25 DON'T SPOOK THE RINGNECKS Wild pheasants scare easily at the sounds of automobiles, pets and also voices. Most birds will certainly begin running or flying at the very first indicator of humans. Park as far as feasible from where you anticipate to hunt and also technique the location quietly.

26 DON'T SWEAT IT Perspiration is your best adversary on a chilly day. Take every precaution to keep completely dry, also if it implies removing off layers of garments as you stroll in cold temperature levels to stay clear of sweating. If you sit for any length of time, developing a sweat in advance will guarantee that you get cooled.

27 GLASSING FOR DUCKS When jump-shooting ducks along streams or craters, utilize a good binocular to scan the area for remote ducks. Make your observation looking through brush, if possible. Ducks have keen eyesight as well as will fly off if they find you.

Many seekers pass up shots if the birds aren't in the clear. If you continuously pass up birds you may never ever obtain a shot.

SMALL-GAME CARE

29 BRING SOME SHEARS Carry game shears to remove wings as well as legs of birds in the area. Make certain to leave evidence of sex or types of the bird if called for by law. Outfit the birds when you pause and cover them in cheesecloth to maintain them clean, allowing air to circulate and also cool the meat. Never put a warm bird in a plastic bag.

Some little game pets harbor fleas, which can bring illness. If you get rid of the skin promptly, the fleas won't have time to migrate off the carcass and also onto you!

31 DON'T BREAST OUT TURKEY Turkey hunters often "breast" their birds, taking the breast meat and also disposing of the legs, upper legs as well as wings. Merely prepare them in a crock pot till the meat falls off the bones, as well as put the boned, diced meat in a pot with soup or stew active ingredients.

32 MOO-VING IN FOR THE KILL If it's a silent day and you're trying to strategy ducks by creeping with thick reeds, the noise you make will usually startle birds prior to you're in range. If cattle are about, try this: Say "moo" noisally as you slip, being as cowlike as possible. Do not laugh-- it functions like a charm. Ducks will certainly tolerate cows, yet not you.

PACKING SMART

33 BAGGING YOUR GEAR On wet days, wetness will inevitably find its way inside your day pack. Secure your equipment by storing products in zip-top bags. Shop comparable things with each other, such as flashlights as well as batteries in one bag, fire starters as well as matches in another, etc.

34 BUILD A BETTER FIRE Fire beginners are important to getting a fire going. I make use of a number of kinds. One of the very best is easy to make at home. Impregnate cotton balls completely with oil jelly. Concerning 7 of them will fit in a 35mm film container. Each will shed for concerning three mins.

TRANSPORT AND STORAGE

35 GET THOSE SHOULDERS UP It's much easier to drag a deer with its shoulders high off the ground. Pull it with a harness that fits snugly over your torso, relocating the carcass brief ranges at a time. Don't try an extensive drag, because you might tire before obtaining the job achieved.

Wrap the meat in cheesecloth to maintain it temporarily clean as well as to let air circulate. For longer durations of storage space, throw the cheesecloth as well as put the meat in sturdy bags that can be washed.

37 HANG 'EM HIGH Never hang a carcass or part of a carcass any type of less than 3 feet from the ground in a lawn or shed. Pets can rapidly eat your hard-earned venison. I've had it occur to me more than once.

38 GRIZZLY SMARTS If you're in grizzly nation and also shoot an elk late in the mid-day as well as don't have time to get it out that evening, put the quarters in a location that's noticeable from a distance. In the morning when you return, you can examine the meat with field glasses to make sure it had not been disrupted or covered with brush. A neighboring grizzly will be possessive of the meat and also you could be in huge difficulty if you unwittingly approach. Many grizzly fights with hunters take place around meat that has been left in the field over night.

39 POLE POSITION Although couple of seekers do this, one very easy method to transport a deer or a number of quarters of elk or moose is to lash them to a stout post and then lug the pole across your shoulders. Place some padding on your shoulders and wrap a lot of orange flagging around the pet for security factors.

40 WHEELIN' IT OUT The best way to relocate a pet, various other than with an equine or having it fall next to a road, is to wheel it on a cart. A one-wheeled cart will go virtually everywhere.

PREDATORS

41 HIKE BEFORE YOU HUNT Park as for you can from your calling location. Coyotes can hear your vehicle a lengthy method away if you're in a remote location. You can get away with auto parking close if you're in a location where there's a lot of website traffic.

42 TAKE A SHOTGUN TOO Bobcats are commonly so mesmerized by a killer call that they run right into the lap of the caller. Many times prairie wolves will certainly come close to within simply a few backyards. A shotgun is a great selection momentarily gun.

43 SWITCH YOUR CALL Try a radically various phone call if the location you're in has heavy hunting pressure. Prairie wolves can come to be familiar with standard phone calls, such as the bunny distress, which is made use of widely. Try a fawn cry, a flicker telephone call or one more unusual noise.

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No matter how well you care for it, a pet can taste gamey because of its age, the rut, its diet or other aspects. Stir-fries are the ideal at covering up a too-strong preference since the components are in close contact with the surface of the meat.

Obtain a little electric meat grinder for much less than $100 and make your own burger and also sausage. Try boning rabbits, squirrels and other video game meats, as well as grinding the meat to make meatballs as well as burgers.

Wrap a fish fillet along with butter, onions and also spices in foil, then wrap it once again. Put the entire jobs in the dishwasher (minus soap) and turn it on.

48 SAUTE A SNAKE You've no doubt listened to concerning rattlesnake meat being a delicacy, and that it tastes like poultry. Fillet the meat, which comes away in slim strips. It's truly great things.

49 HOW TO EAT ANYTHING Offbeat animals such as porcupines, woodchucks, muskrats, raccoons as well as beavers can be superior table fare. Make certain to eliminate any kind of fat and also musk glands and cut the meat into pieces. Soak it in a moderate salt service for 12 hrs ( 1/2 mug salt to one gallon of water) as well as cook it in a slow-moving cooker with a lot of spices and also vegetables-- the extra tomatoes, the much better. Allow it prepare up until the meat falls off the bones. You may be amazed.

50 STEW MADE EASY My favorite stew is called whatchagot, indicating whatever you've obtained in the back of your fridge freezer. When I have a loads or so packages, I thaw everything and also discard it in a huge pot. I let it simmer, include salt and also pepper to taste and also throw in some bonus, such as rice and beans.

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THEY SAY literary novelists can’t do genre. This is perhaps most acutely felt with mystery and noir, which has fascinated and occasionally defied postmodern eminences from Pynchon to Auster and beyond. Antony Lamont, antihero of Gilbert Sorrentino’s incredible Mulligan Stew, stands out as the funniest case study, albeit fictional. A fading, minor experimental writer immersed in an awful fusion of the new novel and a noir potboiler (the same sort of novel it seems Paul Giamatti’s character is working on in Sideways — his “Robbe-Grillet mystery”), the pompous Lamont’s tilt is equal parts cynicism and desperation — his radical approach really just a bald-faced cash grab, so smugly assured is he that the dark ambience, gratuitous sex, and abrupt violence of his meandering and largely content-free novel will finally nab him the hit he deserves. This is not, thankfully, the sort of novel that Jonathan Lethem gives us in The Feral Detective. Though you can be forgiven for imagining otherwise if you’re not familiar with his work, Lethem is no stranger to noir, or genre fiction in general — he came from genre, and is, in fact, a genre writer, especially when he promiscuously blends genres together as he’s been doing since his fantastic Philip K. Dick-meets-Raymond Chandler debut, Gun, with Occasional Music. In short, Lethem is a master, the sort of master for whom narratives about genres, as opposed to genres themselves, are the quarry. That he’s reached a high degree of mainstream success within the genre of literary fiction only burnishes his bona fides as a master of form.

The Feral Detective follows Phoebe Siegler, a thirtysomething New Yorker and former Times staffer who has traveled to the West Coast to track down Arabella, the missing daughter of her friend Roslyn. Arabella, a freshman at Reed College, stopped answering Roslyn’s attempts to contact her a few weeks into her first semester, and Phoebe — newly liberated from her job — decides a trip to Portland to pay the girl a wellness call is just what she and Arabella need. Arriving to find her gone and school officials oblivious, Phoebe digs in and discovers a slim trail of several-weeks-old credit card transactions leading down the coast to Los Angeles’s Union Station and finally, cryptically, to a travel plaza purchase in an unfamiliar corner of San Bernardino County, where the lead goes cold. Because she is worried about Arabella, and because she loves her friend — Roslyn is herself a mother figure to Phoebe — and because she is not ready to go back home, Phoebe decides to extend her vacation. The reason she is not ready to face New York — the reason she quit her job — haunts the novel from its first pages:

Blame the election. I’d been working for the Great Gray News organization, in a hard-won, lowly position meant to guarantee me a life spent rising securely through the ranks. This was the way it was supposed to go, before I’d bugged out. I’d done everything right, like a certain first female nominee we’d all relied upon, even my male friends who hated her, as a cap on the barking madness of the world. Now she took walks in the hills around Chappaqua and I’d checked into the Doubletree a mile west of Upland, California.

The Feral Detective is not only a novel of the Trump era, it is a novel largely about it — specifically, how the Trump era has felt for a certain set of us who woke up on November 9, 2016, with a newfound appreciation for the arguments of reality simulation theorists. If noir is at its core fundamentally the cruel stripping away of illusion, there could hardly be a better subject than a liberal coping with the Trump era. So thoroughly and suddenly was the narrative of Hillary Clinton’s inevitable victory evacuated, so traumatic was the puncturing of the optimistic Obama-era bubble, and so bizarre and even nightmarish have been the subsequent years that it’s easy to think of the whole world as having taken a noir-ish turn: worst timeline confirmed, doomsday clock ticking ever closer to midnight. For Phoebe, it is all too much to take:

My room reminded me of a gun moll’s wisecrack, in some old film I’d seen, on entering an apartment: “Early Nothing.” I was left with Facebook, where my friends had responded to the election by reducing themselves to shrill squabbling cartoons. Or I could opt for CNN, where various so-called surrogates enacted their shrill hectoring cartoons without needing to be reduced, since it was their life’s only accomplishment to have been preformatted for this brave new world. Television had elected itself, I figured. It could watch itself too for all I cared. I read my book.

There is, in her quest to find Arabella, more than a little self-interest — it is also a quest to find, if not the fictional world she thought she inhabited, a way to understand the one she never knew she lived in all along.

Her guide in this is Charles Heist, the eponymous feral detective, so called because of his penchant for tracking down lost, troubled, cult-brainwashed, and otherwise disappeared or off-the-grid kids. Working out of a nondescript strip-mall office in Upland, Charles Heist takes Phoebe’s case with a typically non-committal “no-promises” sort of attitude, but also with a decidedly nontypical disinterest in any sort of upfront payment. Other unusual details include the presence in Heist’s office of a wounded possum, which Heist is doggedly though unsentimentally nursing back to health, and a ragged, mute young girl named Melinda, apparently recently and quite literally feral herself. Phoebe is nonplussed but also, she must admit, intrigued — and Charles is a looker in a flinty, sunburnt sort of way:

He resembled one of those pottery leaf-faces you find hanging on the sheds of wannabe-English gardens. His big nose and lips, his deep-cleft chin and philtrum, looked like ceramic or wood. Somehow, despite or because of all of this, I registered him as attractive, with an undertow of disgust. The disgust was perhaps at myself, for noticing.

His services are retained. With nothing to go on except the travel plaza purchase, and a hunch that Arabella — a devoted fan of Leonard Cohen — might have ascended nearby Mount Baldy where the late, great songwriter frequented an isolated Zen retreat, Charles sets out and Phoebe returns to her hotel to brood on the case and the mysterious dashing man onto whose broad shoulders she’s laid her last, best hope.

These introductory chapters are incredible — it truly is a lot of fun to see Phoebe fall so quickly and so hard for Heist. Making Heist the honest and unapologetic object of Phoebe’s post-Obama rebound fantasy is a delicious complication of the femme-fatale tradition, and it’s great to see her unapologetic voraciousness respectfully, even somewhat meekly, received by the terse but game Heist. Lethem wrings plenty of comedy out of the improbable culture-clash romance that rapidly develops between the two, but there is something troubling that develops, too. For a writer who is normally so good with voice and so adept at playing off types while still imbuing his characters with enough specificity and depth to keep them from becoming cartoons, Phoebe begins, as the novel progresses, to feel at times much too broad — a weird gestalt of awkward comedienne, working girl, and other tropes whose presence isn’t entirely exorcised by cheeky self-consciousness:

I’d go home with a California story or two in my back pocket. No, sorry, I didn’t ever set eyes on the ocean or the Hollywood sign, but did I tell you the one about the porta-potty levee? The trailer park blowjob? Oh, what a Manic Pixie Am I! I pictured telling this over late lunch at Elephant & Castle.

Through Phoebe, Lethem means to implicate himself and by extension the whole cohort of urbane, liberal, upwardly mobile folks too assured of victory and too preoccupied with themselves to imagine the failure of their certainties in 2016. But although Phoebe’s preoccupation with what Heist thinks of her, for example, is funny, it began to worry me. On the one hand, it is great that Lethem allows Phoebe to be shallow — as he does — and to seem at times to forget about the search for Arabella while daydreaming about her new gumshoe boytoy — as she does — but is this an unvarnished caricature of complacent white feminism of the sort that both the left and the right now routinely flog for predictable results?

The plot, depending on how well the conceit works for you, congeals, or thickens — it is discovered that Arabella is caught between two warring cultish groups of desert dwellers, the feminist “Rabbits” and the boorish “Bears” and some genuinely funny moments, striking passages, and typically excellent walk-on characters follow. Each band is a primal caricature of the current partisan divide and not much more nuanced than what you’d get from reading Daily Kos or The Daily Caller. It’s mostly burlesque, but there are hints at a deeper reckoning. Phoebe, who spends much of the book in sidekick mode, gets a memorable “flower-pot” moment. The gesture — which Phoebe names after the belated contribution of a corseted heroine in a half-remembered Western she used to watch with her dad, which involved the woman throwing a flower-pot down on the head of a villain from a second-story window — kicks off an extended denouement that pleasurably complicates the existing dynamic between Phoebe and Heist. By the novel’s end, most of my doubts were, if not totally expunged, at least leavened by the complex affection I’d begun to feel for Phoebe.

Heist, a kind of subterranean Trump foil — a paragon of non-toxic masculinity — is the more lovable character, but Phoebe is ultimately more interesting. The feral detective, true to form, spirits Phoebe away from the old assurances and dead narratives to which she reflexively, repeatedly, retreats, even, in the end, the old one about the guy getting the girl, and she realizes ultimately that learning to live in the new world means letting go of the old.

Perhaps the ultimate truth of noir is that no matter where you’re standing, there is always another floor to fall through. If there is a central lesson of The Feral Detective, it might be simply to embrace this fact; as the Cohen-head Arabella might quote: “You want it darker.” Yes, and for a reason. Darkness can be a renewal, death and inversion driving out the old to make space for the new.

Seth Blake is a writer from New Hampshire living in Los Angeles.

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