American Big Game in Its Haunts

American Big Game in Its
Haunts - The Book of the Boone
and Crockett Club

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American Big Game in Its Haunts
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club
EDITOR
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL
1904

[Illustration: THEODORE ROOSEVELT Founder of the Boone and
Crockett Club]

Contents
Theodore Roosevelt
Wilderness Reserves Theodore Roosevelt.
The Zoology of North American Big Game Arthur Erwin Brown.
Big Game Shooting in Alaska:
I. Bear Hunting on Kadiak Island II. Bear Hunting on the Alaska
Peninsula III. My Big Bear of Shuyak IV. The White Sheep of Kenai
Peninsula. V. Hunting the Giant Moose James H. Kidder.
The Kadiak Bear and his Home W. Lord Smith.
The Mountain Sheep and its Range George Bird Grinnell.
Preservation of the Wild Animals of North America Henry Fairfield
Osborn.
Distribution of the Moose Madison Grant.
The Creating of Game Refuges Alden Sampson.
Temiskaming Moose Paul J. Dashiell.
Two Trophies from India John H. Prentice.

Big-Game Refuges
Forest Reserves of North America

Appendix
Forest Reserves as Game Preserves E.W. Nelson.
Constitution of the Boone and Crockett Club
Rules of the Committee on Admission
Former Officers of the Boone and Crockett Club
Officers of the Boone and Crockett Club
List of Members

List of Illustrations
Theodore Roosevelt
President Roosevelt and Major Pitcher
Tourists and Bears
"Oom John"
Prongbucks
Mountain Sheep
Deer on the Parade Ground

Whiskey Jacks
Wapiti in Deep Snow
Old Ephraim
Mountain Sheep at Close Quarters
Magpies
A Silhouette of Blacktail
Black Bears at Hotel Garbage Heap
Chambermaid and Bear
Cook and Bear
Bull Bison
Trophies from Alaska
Loaded Baidarka--Barabara--Base of Supplies, Alaska Peninsula
The Hunter and his Home
Baidarka
Heads of Dall's Sheep
My Best Head
St. Paul, Kadiak Island
Sunset in English Bay, Kadiak
Sitkalidak Island from Kadiak
A Kadiak Eagle
Bear Paths, Kadiak Island
Bear Paths, Kadiak Island
Merycodus osborni Matthew
Yearling Moose
Maine Moose; about 1890
Moose Killed 1892, with Unusual Development of Brow Antlers
Alaska Moose Head, Showing Unusual Development of Antlers
"Bierstadt" Head, Killed 1880
Probably Largest Known Alaska Moose Head
Temiskaming Moose

Temiskaming Moose
Temiskaming Moose
Temiskaming Moose
A Kahrigur Tiger
Indian Leopard
The New Buffalo Herd in the Yellowstone Park
A Bit of Sheep Country
Mountain Sheep at Rest
Mule Deer at Fort Yellowstone
NOTE.--The four last illustrations are from photographs taken by
Major John Pitcher, Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park,
especially for this volume.

Preface
Although the Boone and Crockett Club has not appeared largely in the
public eye during recent years, its activities have not ceased. The
discovery of gold in Alaska, and the extraordinary rush of population to
that northern territory had the usual effect on the wild life there, and
proved very destructive to the natives and to the large mammals. A few
years ago it became evident that the Kadiak bear and certain newly
discovered forms of wild sheep and caribou were being destroyed by
wholesale, and were actually threatened with extermination, and
through the efforts of the Club, strongly backed by the Biological
Survey of the Department of Agriculture, a bill was passed regulating
the taking of Alaska large game, and especially the exportation of
heads, horns, and hides. The bill promises to afford sufficient
protection to some of these rare boreal forms, though for others it
perhaps comes too late. The enforcement of the law is in charge of the

Treasury Department, and permits for shooting and the export of
trophies are issued by the Chief of the Biological Survey.
Although a local affair, yet of interest to the whole country, is the
remarkable success of the New York Zoological Park, controlled and
managed by the New York Zoological Society, brought into existence
largely through the efforts of Madison Grant, the present secretary of
the Club. The Society has also recently taken over the care of the New
York Aquarium. The Society is in a most flourishing condition, and
through its extensive collections exerts an important educational
influence in a field in which popular interest is constantly growing.
Under the administration of President Roosevelt, the good work of
national forest preservation continues, and the time appears not far
distant when vast areas of the hitherto