American Big Game in Its Haunts

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Title: American Big Game in Its Haunts
Author: Various
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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 uncultivated West will prove added sources of wealth to our country.
The Club has for some time given much thoughtful attention to the subject of game refuges--that is to say, areas where game shall be absolutely free from interference or molestation, as it is to-day in the Yellowstone Park--to be situated within the forest reserves; and as is elsewhere shown, it has investigated a number of the forest reserves in order to learn something of their suitability for game refuges. It appears certain that only by means of such refuges can some forms of