Part 2

Head-Measurements of the Trophies at the Madison Square Garden Sportsmen's Exposition 424

National Park Protective Act 433

Constitution of the Boone and Crockett Club 439

Officers of the Boone and Crockett Club 442

List of Members 443

List of Illustrations

Crown of Chief Mountain Frontispiece From the southeast. One-half mile distant. Photographed by Dr. Walter B. James.

Facing page A Mountain Sheep 55 Photographed from Life. From Forest and Stream.

Rocky Mountain and Polo's Sheep 75 The figures are drawn to the same scale and show the difference in the spread of horns. From Forest and Stream.

A Moose of the Upper Ottawa 85 Killed by Madison Grant, October 10, 1893.

How our Outfit was Carried 123 Photographed by D. M. Barringer.

Outeshai, Russian Barzoi 151 Winner of the hare-coursing prize at Colombiagi (near St. Petersburg) two years in succession. In type, however, he is faulty.

Fox-hounds of the Imperial Kennels 177 The men and dogs formed part of the hunt described.

The Chief's Crown from the East 229 Photographed by Dr. Walter B. James. Distance, two miles.

Yaks Grazing 255 Photographed by Hon. W. W. Rockhill.

Ailuropus Melanoleucus 263 From Forest and Stream.

Elaphurus Davidianus 271

The Wolf Throwing Zlooem, the Barzoi 319 From Leslie's Weekly.

Yellowstone Park Elk 377 From Forest and Stream.

A Hunting Day 395 From Forest and Stream.

In Yellowstone Park Snows 413 From Forest and Stream.

On the Shore of Yellowstone Lake 419 From Forest and Stream.

NOTE.--The mountain sheep's head on the cover is from a photograph of the head of the big ram killed by Mr. Gould in Lower California, as described in the article "To the Gulf of Cortez."

Preface

The first volume published by the Boone and Crockett Club, under the title "American Big Game Hunting," confined itself, as its title implied, to sport on this continent. In presenting the second volume, a number of sketches are included written by members who have hunted big game in other lands. The contributions of those whose names are so well known in connection with explorations in China and Tibet, and in Africa, have an exceptional interest for men whose use of the rifle has been confined entirely to the North American continent.

During the two years that have elapsed since the appearance of its last volume, the Boone and Crockett Club has not been idle. The activity of its members was largely instrumental in securing at last the passage by Congress of an act to protect the Yellowstone National Park, and to punish crimes and offenses within its borders, though it may be questioned whether even their efforts would have had any result had not the public interest been aroused, and the Congressional conscience pricked, by the wholesale slaughter of buffalo which took place in the Park in March, 1894, as elsewhere detailed by Capt. Anderson and the editors. Besides this, the Club has secured the passage, by the New York Legislature, of an act incorporating the New York Zoological Society, and a considerable representation of the Club is found in the list of its officers and managers. Other efforts, made by Boone and Crockett members in behalf of game and forest protection, have been less successful, and there is still a wide field for the Club's activities.

Public sentiment should be aroused on the general question of forest preservation, and especially in the matter of securing legislation which will adequately protect the game and the forests of the various forest reservations already established. Special attention was called to this point in the earlier volume published by the Club, from which we quote:

If it was worth while to establish these reservations, it is worth while to protect them. A general law, providing for the adequate guarding of all such national possessions, should be enacted by Congress, and wherever it may be necessary such Federal laws should be supplemented by laws of the States in which the reservations lie. The timber and the game ought to be made the absolute property of the Government, and it should be constituted a punishable offense to appropriate such property within the limits of the reservation. The game and timber on a reservation should be regarded as Government property, just as are the mules and the cordwood at an army post. If it is a crime to take the latter, it should be a crime to plunder a forest reservation.