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.

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