Part 1

The Happy Hunting-Grounds

The Happy Hunting-Grounds

Kermit Roosevelt

Author of “War in the Garden of Eden”

Illustrated from Photographs by the Author

London Hodder & Stoughton 1920

Copyright, 1912, 1920, by Charles Scribner’s Sons, for the United States of America

Printed by the Scribner Press New York, U. S. A.

TO THE MISTRESS OF SAGAMORE

Contents

PAGE I. THE HAPPY HUNTING-GROUNDS 3

II. IN QUEST OF SABLE ANTELOPE 53

III. THE SHEEP OF THE DESERT 71

IV. AFTER MOOSE IN NEW BRUNSWICK 103

V. TWO BOOK-HUNTERS IN SOUTH AMERICA 123

VI. SETH BULLOCK--SHERIFF OF THE BLACK HILLS COUNTRY 151

Illustrations

Arab sheikhs who had ridden in, camel-back, from the desert to pay their respects Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

Sir Alfred Pease’s sketch of our first giraffe hunt 24

Father and R. H. Munro Ferguson at the Elkhorn Ranch, after the return from a successful hunting trip 34

Facsimile of a picture letter by father 38

Putting the tape on a tusker 42

Launching a newly made dugout on the Dúvida 44

A relic of the Portuguese occupation; an old well beside the trail 56

The Death Dance of the Wa Nyika children in memory of the chieftain’s little son 58

Across the bay from Mombasa; the porters ready to shoulder loads and march 66

A desert camp in old Mexico 78