Its fascinating! ... [Tells] how fishing is an integral part of America.??BILL O'REILLY The O'Reilly Factor
The perfect Christmas gift for the fishing enthusiast in your family (Daily Caller)?The American Fisherman by outdoorsman Willie Robertson (CEO of Duck Commander and star of A&Es Duck Dynasty) and bestselling historian William Doyle reveals that in the U.S.A. fishing is far more than a pastimeit has shaped our past and defined our character in remarkable ways.
This generously illustrated celebration of fish anglers and our countrys treasured wild places traces fishings astonishing impact on the United States and its people from its settlement and founding to powering its economy and inspiring our creativity and faith. Blessed by perhaps the most diverse and abundant waters in the world Native Americans were the continents first master anglers and incorporated fish into their spiritual beliefs and legends. When the Vikings the earliest European visitors?? arrived?? they were drawn across the Atlantic Ocean by the bountiful fishing grounds of North America??s East Coast. During the colonial era?? fish helped save the Pilgrims?? make George Washington wealthy?? and win the American Revolution. From New England cod to Pacific Northwest salmon to Gulf shrimp?? the fishin