Bear hunters with dogs fighting bear with knife in the Mississippi Delta canebrakes from an 1881 Scribner's Monthly article entitled "Bear-Hunting in the South" with inset photo of bear hunter Robert Eager Bobo.

Coming Events

The Bear Hunter is now available in hardcover from Amazon.com here

New Book on Kindle here.

Currently Scheduled Events:

11 May 2017  (Thursday), noon.   Jim McCafferty, will be  presenting a powerpoint program on his book, The Bear Hunter:   The Life and Times of Robert Eager Bobo in the Canebrakes of the Old South at  the Robinson Carpenter Memorial Library in Cleveland, Mississippi.

See an excerpt from The Bear Hunter in The Southern Reader:  An Online Magazine about Life in the South  features an excerpt fromThe Bear Hunter:   The Life and Times of Robert Eager Bobo in the Canebrakes of the Old South.

 

 

News  

       The Bear Hunter:  The Life and Times of Robert Eager Bobo in the Canebrakes of the Old South is  now available in hardcover edition from Amazon.com by clicking here.  Signed copies ofThe Bear Hunter are available from the author at the address below and in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana at the following locations:

       Memphis, Tennessee

Burke's Book Store                                                                                       

     Mississippi

Bay St. Louis, Bay Books

Clarksdale, Press Register Newspaper Office

Cleveland, Cotton Row Bookstore 

Greenville, Lagniappe Gifts

Greenwood, Turnrow Books

Jackson, Lemuria Books

Natchez, Turning Pages

New Albany, Calico Mushroom

New Albany, Union County Heritage Museum

Oxford, Square Books

Starkville, Book Mart and Cafe

Tunica, Tunica Museum

Tupelo, Reed's Gum Tree Bookstore 

Louisiana: 

Baton Rouge, Cottonwood Books

New Orleans:

Maple Street Book Shop

Octavia Books


James T. McCafferty
Canebrake Publishing Company
Post Office Box 822
McComb, Mississippi  39649
info@canebrakes.com




 Jim McCafferty is the author of The Bear Hunter: The Life and Times of Robert Eager Bobo in the Canebrakes of the Old South and two children's book, Holt and the Teddy Bear and Holt and the CowboysThe Kindle version of The Bear Hunter can be previewed and purchased here   Follow this link for ordering information on all three books:  Buy the Books.