Dog Men is it in our Genes? (Heritage Pics)

[matt_aggie04]

Yep that is Spring Creek.  Those bramha cattle are bayed where Benders Landing is today and that picture of the men riding is either on that old tram road or pipeline that runs from Riley Fuzzell back east toward 59.  Those men knew that country better than I could ever understand.  There arent very many creeks in this part of the world they didn't hunt or push cows out of or across.  They are real men, even today the ones that are alive like my grandpaw who is in his mid 80's, can make you feel pretty pampered when you start hanging around them for very long.  I could live my life twice and not see or experience the things he has.  I only wished I could have gotten him to show me more or tell me more and been able to record it all.  I still go sit and visit with him and my grandmaw as often as I can, I cherish those moments.  I have shown him pictures and he will come out to the truck to look at my dogs if they are with me but his eyes are all but shot and I can tell it bothers him that he cant see what I am trying to show him.  I think if nothing else it reminds him of hogs and dogs and cattle from his past and brings him some joy even if he cant see them like he wants to.  It is kinda odd because my dad and his two brother never kept dogs or really wanted to have much to do with hunting behind them, it seems to have skipped a generation ha.

[Oly]

WOW----FANTASTIC Thread----

[bailey508]

My dad has told me tons of stories about my grandaddys deer and hog dogs (same pack cause they couldn't afford to feed to many). But my dad never was a dogger when I was growing up. He loves to hear our stories about hog doggin but he is to old to go. Wish I could have ran with him and grandaddy all them years ago.

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

Yep it seems the more folks I talk to the more I understand in the 40's to 60's Foxhounds were the going thing along with coon hounds with the majority of the population. My grandmother told me that it was about the only form of entertainment they had back then.

Hogs were only ran domestically around their area and suprisingly deer were not in their part of East Texas during this time frame. I was told that deer were introduced into their area in the late 50's and took off from there.

Crazy how many things you take for granted that I never would have known or even asked.

Thanks for yall's posts I am enjoying all the digging everyone is doing into their own pasts and heritage. If you havn't you better do it before its to late and all of this history is gone with the old timers that have it locked away.   

[T-Bob Parker]

I have a cook book from a Baptist church around Many Louisiana dated 1944 and your right, only one recipe involving venison! I guess it wasn't as common as I woulda thought.

[brazosboy]

This is a picture of my grandfather when he was a Dog Sergeant for the Texas Prison system in the 1930s.

This picture was taken in 1951. My dad is on the left with four of his hog dogs. The little boy is me.

[matt_aggie04]

Very nice pictures there, I bet your grandpaw knew which end to feed to say the least.  Nice leopard dogs of your dads too.

[Critter Catcher]

I'm fairly new to the hog doggin about 3 to 4 yrs but I started hunting deer behind dogs when I was 6 yrs old with my uncle CD Daniels who now lives in Cleveland, Tx and at 87 yrs old is still hunting coon hounds. I had my first pack of rabbit dogs at 12 a pack of Beagles my uncle gave and from there I was hooked on dog hunting from rabbit to coon to bobcats. I was always running hounds redtick, black and tans, blueticks, and crosses of them all even had a ridgeback that ran coon. I believe it's a real good way to truly meet the outdoors and really appreciate what God has given us all to enjoy. JMO

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

Great pics Brazos,

I see the pic of your grandfather he also had a dog horn slung. Glad to see you still have your family heritage pics. Thanks for sharing do you remember what type of dogs your dad had in that picture?

[BobbyB]

great pics all the way thru this.

My Dad's dad, Pawpaw coon hunted off and on. The Ranch hand we had, Sonny, coon hunted religiously and ran beagles. I hunted a lot with Sonny. He always had his goat horn slung on his left side, a single shot lever action .22 across his back , rubber boots and a pipe full of Granger.

There is no use looking because I know thee are no dog pics to be found. a few on horse back or working cows maybe. Going to my folks this weekend. I'll have to poke around.

[brazosboy]

thanks . I sure enjoy looking at all the old pics. I sure was glad I had a couple to post. Some how we made the pictures a little too big. You have to arrow it to the left to see the 4th dog. The two spotted dogs were what we called leopards. My dad told me that he got them from his dad. They came off one of the prisons and were out of cowdog stock.  I dont know anything about them other than dad said a hog bit the tail off the one on the right.  The 2nd dog was called Ring  he didnt know his background but said he was a good dog. The 3rd dog was called Rusty . He had some redbone in him. His momma was called Bonnie. She was a cat and fox dog. My uncle told me that one time they were after a cow in the bottoms and they put BONNIE on her track and  she found the old cow and bayed herup.

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

Bobby

Yea would love to see some of your family's pics whether they have dogs in em or not. You never know what you will find in them old cheese boxes full of black and white pics.

Brazos

Sounds like dogs go back a ways for your family as well. We all enjoyed the pics and story very much. Thanks for sharing them with us. 

[Marshall]

All awesome photos!

[Wmwendler]

Matt it never gets old seing those pics.

Brazosboy....nice lookin hoss and dogs you grandad had

Waylon

[clearcreek]

Here is a pic of my great-great grandfather fox hunting early 1900's Cooke County, TX.  Trying to track down some more, but this is one of my favorites.

[CHRIS H.]

My grandfather with his dad's coon dogs in the 1920s - Glean Flora ,TX




and my grandfather last year with his grandson's aspiring hog dogs ..haha

[SCHitemHard]

man i tell you i wish i could ever find my familys hunting photos, they all had beagles, heard stories of 40+ beagles hitting fields and they would spend days tryin to get them all back. they would come back with so many rabbits the whole family would sit down and process them all, i rem my first task of learnin to hunt was a shoe box with a rabbit drawn on it and my pop would pull it on a string and i had my first red ryder bbgun and shot the chit outta that thing, got my first beagle the day i was born they brought it in the hospital and everything im gonna look around when i visit back home next week, love the thread!!

[graydog]

Matt, where were those pictures taken? Awesome. This is a great thread. Hpoe to see more old photos.

[noelle]

Great pictures guys, heres a pic of my grandpa and great grandpa on their ranch in the early 1900s in the Thicket/Saratoga area. both of them as well as my dad have passed away, but since i could walk i was huntin with them and learned alot from them, sorry the pics so faded, can barely make out the cow dogs in the cow pen, ill try to post more old pics, lol prolly got one with me and some old walker hounds when i was about 5... Im 32 now and had my own cow,hog, and coon dogs since i was about 12, I learned alot about breeding and doctoring and hunting from them old men, and despite what a particular person on here told me about ( reading and internet and vets being the only source for real and accurate info and that the way grandad did it back in the day was just myths), Im still proud of the knowledge i obtained, and if that makes me a (wanna b) then im proud of that too I know that some folks read and learn the best way to do it in a few years and some grew up with it and use knowledge from old timers, Im glad to be a 4th generation dog man, likely more, and the bottom line is were all dogmen (and women) and each of us is proud of our knowledge and heritage whether it was recently obtained or generations old and we have to do all we can to preserve our rite to run dogs or itll fade away just as the days of long ago


heres one of some old dog horns, left is my great grandpas, right my grandpas, and bottom is one i made about 15yrs ago

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

Clearcreek

That my friend is one truly awesome picture you have there. I love it and what some leggy hounds them boys had back in the day.

Chris H

Truly bad A$$ picture of your grandfather then and now. I hope I can be fortunate enough to have my ugly mug in two pictures like that one day. Cherrish them guys cause they are a living time machine to your past. Wish everyday I could sit down with mine just one more time.

Noelle

Seems like the faded ones are usually the pics that mean the most to us. Likewise I learned the foundation of dog hunting from my grandfather along with the burning desire to stay behind a hunting dog "anykind". I also have a couple of my grandfathers hunting horns and can remember blowing on those things till my face turned blue trying to get that last ole Walker dog back in from the Yote race when I was about 5 yrs. Underdog was gracious enough to bring me a new one other night,  and I am going back to calling my dogs with a horn. Just makes more sense than hollering I guess.

Thanks to all of you that have raided the cheese box for these old pictures. These kind of pictures interest me more than anything else, because we get to have a first class seat to a window of our past. AWESOME PICTURES GUYS AGAIN THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!!!!