The Prairie Chicken / By Capt. Charles Askins (from Game Bird Shooting, 1931) -- De Shootin'est Gent'man / By Nash Buckingham -- The First Gun / By Richard Jeffries (from The Amateur Poacher, 1879) -- That Twenty-Five-Pound Gobbler / By Archibald Ruteledge -- Bear Hunting in the Smokies / By Horace Kephart -- The American Wilderness; Wilderness Hunters and Wilderness Game / By Theodore Roosevelt (from The Wilderness Hunter, 1893) -- Tige's Lion / By Zane Grey -- Lobo : The King of Currumpaw / By Ernest Seton-Thompson (from Wild Animals I Have Known, 1899) -- My Antelope / By Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson (from A Woman Tenderfoot, 1900) -- The Woman Afield / By Capt. Charles Askins (from Game Bird Shooting, 1931) -- The Mountain Goat at Home / By William T. Hornaday, Sc.D -- Red Letter Days in British Columbia / By Lt. Townsend Whelen -- The Alaskan Grizzly / By Harold McCracken -- The Hunt for the Man-Eaters of Tsavo / By Lt. Col. J. M. Patterson, D.S.O -- Some Tiger Stories / By Sir Richard Dane -- The Gentle Art of Tiger-Hunting / By Harry Caldwell (from The Blue Tiger, 1924) -- Wolf-Hunting in Russia / By Henry T. Allen (from Hunting in Many Lands : The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club, 1895) -- Wolf Chase / By Roy Chapman Andrews (from Across Mongolian Plains, 1921) -- Hunting on the Turin Plain / By Roy Chapman Andrews (from Across Mongolian Plains, 1921) -- The Forest and the Steppe / By Ivan Turgenev.
Summary:
For hunters, listening to the accounts of kindred spirits recalling the drama and action that go with good days afield ranks among life's most pleasurable activities. This newly updated volume - with an introduction by editor Stephen J. Bodio -- contains some of the best hunting tales ever written, stories that sweep from charging elephants in the African bush to mountain goats in the mountain crags of the Rockies, from the gallant bird dogs of the Southern pinelands to the great Western hunts of Theodore Roosevelt. Stories include: The Wilderness Hunter by Theodore Roosevelt TigeĢs Lion by Zane Grey Lobo: The King of Currumpaw by Ernest Seton-Thompson My Antelope by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson The Alaskan Grizzly by Harold McCracken Wolf-Hunting in Russia by Henry T. Allen Hunting on the Turin Plain by Roy Chapman Andrew.
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