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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
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