Part 2

List of Illustrations

Going to Water Frontispiece From Scribner's Magazine.

Facing page

The Master of the Herd 19 From Scribner's Magazine.

On the Slide Rock 46 Photographed from nature in the Chief Mountain country, Montana, by William H. Seward, Jr. From the Forest and Stream.

On the Heights 91 From Scribner's Magazine.

Stalking the Stalker 99 From Scribner's Magazine.

Studying the Strangers 105 From Scribner's Magazine.

Crossing a Drift 115 From Scribner's Magazine.

Two Pairs 117 From Scribner's Magazine.

At Mid-day 160 From Scribner's Magazine.

Blackfoot Indian Piskun 184 From Scribner's Magazine.

Through the Mist 197 From Scribner's Magazine.

Prospecting for Grub 214 From Scribner's Magazine.

The Buffalo of the Timber 240 Photographed from life in the Yellowstone National Park by John Fossam. From the Forest and Stream.

A Mountain Pasture 254 Photographed from life in the Yellowstone National Park by W. H. Weed.

Buffalo Cows and Calves 264 Photographed from life in the Yellowstone National Park by John Fossam. From the Forest and Stream.

Resting 294 Photographed from life by T. G. Ingersoll. From the Forest and Stream.

The illustrations from Scribner's Magazine are reproduced by kind permission of Charles Scribner's Sons; those from the Forest and Stream by permission of the Forest and Stream Publishing Company.

The Boone and Crockett Club

The aims of The Boone and Crockett Club are sufficiently set forth in Article II of its Constitution, which reads as follows:

The objects of the Club shall be:

1. To promote manly sport with the rifle.

2. To promote travel and exploration in the wild and unknown, or but partially known, portions of the country.

3. To work for the preservation of the large game of this country, and, so far as possible, to further legislation for that purpose, and to assist in enforcing the existing laws.

4. To promote inquiry into and to record observations on the habits and natural history of the various wild animals.

5. To bring about among the members the interchange of opinions and ideas on hunting, travel, exploration, on the various kinds of hunting-rifles, on the haunts of game animals, etc.

The Club is organized primarily to promote manly sport with the rifle among the large game of the wilderness, to encourage travel and exploration in little-known regions of our country, and to work for game and forest preservation by the State. Attention has been paid to all three points by the Club, but especially to sport and protection. Nevertheless exploration has not been neglected. In a trip after wilderness game the hunter is perforce obliged to traverse and explore little-known regions, at least when he is in search of the rarer animals, or is desirous of reaching the best hunting-grounds; and in addition to such exploration, which is merely incidental to the ordinary hunting trip, members of the Club have done not a little original exploration for its own sake, including surveying, and geographical and geological map-making. The results of these explorations, when sufficiently noteworthy, have appeared in periodicals devoted to such subjects, or in Government reports. The present volume is devoted to big-game hunting and to questions of game preservation.