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American Big-Game Hunting

The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club

EDITORS THEODORE ROOSEVELT GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL

NEW-YORK FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 1901

Copyright, 1893, by the Forest and Stream Publishing Co.

Contents

Page

The Boone and Crockett Club 9 The Editors.

A Buffalo Story 19 George S. Anderson.

The White Goat and his Country 26 Owen Wister.

A Day with the Elk 61 Winthrop Chanler.

Old Times in the Black Hills 73 Roger D. Williams.

Big Game in the Rockies 90 Archibald Rogers.

Coursing the Prongbuck 129 Theodore Roosevelt.

After Wapiti in Wyoming 140 F. C. Crocker.

In Buffalo Days 155 George Bird Grinnell.

Nights with the Grizzlies 212 W. D. Pickett.

The Yellowstone Park as a Game Reservation 240 Arnold Hague.

A Mountain Fraud 271 Dean Sage.

Blacktails in the Bad Lands 287 Bronson Rumsey.

Photographing Wild Game 299 W. B. Devereux.

Literature of American Big-Game Hunting 319

Our Forest Reservations 326

The Club Exhibit at the World's Fair 334

Constitution and By-Laws of the Club 337

List of Members 340

The sketches entitled Big Game in the Rockies, and In Buffalo Days, have already appeared in Scribner's Magazine, and are here reprinted by kind permission of Charles Scribner's Sons. Nights with the Grizzlies has appeared in the Forest and Stream, and is reprinted by permission of the Forest and Stream Publishing Co.