THE CROWN OF CHIEF MOUNTAIN FROM THE SOUTHEAST.

Hunting
In Many Lands

EDITORS
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL

NEW-YORK
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY
1895

Copyright, 1895, by
Forest and Stream Publishing Company

Forest and Stream Press,
New York, N. Y., U. S. A.

Contents

Page
Hunting in East Africa[13]
W. A. Chanler.
To the Gulf of Cortez[55]
George H. Gould.
A Canadian Moose Hunt[84]
Madison Grant.
A Hunting Trip in India[107]
Elliott Roosevelt.
Dog Sledging in the North[123]
D. M. Barringer.
Wolf-Hunting in Russia[151]
Henry T. Allen.
A Bear-Hunt in the Sierras[187]
Alden Sampson.
The Ascent of Chief Mountain[220]
Henry L. Stimson.
The Cougar[238]
Casper W. Whitney.
Big Game of Mongolia and Tibet[255]
W. W. Rockhill.
Hunting in the Cattle Country[278]
Theodore Roosevelt.
Wolf-Coursing[318]
Roger D. Williams.
Game Laws[358]
Charles E. Whitehead.
Protection of the Yellowstone National Park[377]
George S. Anderson.
The Yellowstone National Park Protection Act[403]
George S. Anderson.
Head-Measurements of the Trophies at the Madison Square Garden Sportsmen's Exposition[424]
National Park Protective Act[433]
Constitution of the Boone and Crockett Club[439]
Officers of the Boone and Crockett Club[442]
List of Members[443]

List of Illustrations

Crown of Chief Mountain[Frontispiece]
From the southeast. One-half mile distant. Photographedby Dr. Walter B. James.
Facing Page
A Mountain Sheep[55]
Photographed from Life. From Forest and Stream.
Rocky Mountain and Polo's Sheep[75]
The figures are drawn to the same scale and showthe difference in the spread of horns. From Forestand Stream.
A Moose of the Upper Ottawa[85]
Killed by Madison Grant, October 10, 1893.
How our Outfit was Carried[123]
Photographed by D. M. Barringer.
Outeshai, Russian Barzoi[151]
Winner of the hare-coursing prize at Colombiagi (nearSt. Petersburg) two years in succession. In type,however, he is faulty.
Fox-hounds of the Imperial Kennels[177]
The men and dogs formed part of the hunt described.
The Chief's Crown from the East[229]
Photographed by Dr. Walter B. James. Distance,two miles.
Yaks Grazing[255]
Photographed by Hon. W. W. Rockhill.
Ailuropus Melanoleucus[263]
From Forest and Stream.
Elaphurus Davidianus[271]
The Wolf Throwing Zlooem, the Barzoi[319]
From Leslie's Weekly.
Yellowstone Park Elk[377]
From Forest and Stream.
A Hunting Day[395]
From Forest and Stream.
In Yellowstone Park Snows[413]
From Forest and Stream.
On the Shore of Yellowstone Lake[419]
From Forest and Stream.

Note.—The mountain sheep's head on the cover is from a photograph of the head of the big ram killed by Mr. Gould in Lower California, as described in the article "To the Gulf of Cortez."

Preface

The first volume published by the Boone and Crockett Club, under the title "American Big Game Hunting," confined itself, as its title implied, to sport on this continent. In presenting the second volume, a number of sketches are included written by members who have hunted big game in other lands. The contributions of those whose names are so well known in connection with explorations in China and Tibet, and in Africa, have an exceptional interest for men whose use of the rifle has been confined entirely to the North American continent.

During the two years that have elapsed since the appearance of its last volume, the Boone and Crockett Club has not been idle. The activity of its members was largely instrumental in securing at last the passage by Congress of an act to protect the Yellowstone National Park, and to punish crimes and offenses within its borders, though it may be questioned whether even their efforts would have had any result had not the public interest been aroused, and the Congressional conscience pricked, by the wholesale slaughter of buffalo which took place in the Park in March, 1894, as elsewhere detailed by Capt. Anderson and the editors. Besides this, the Club has secured the passage, by the New York Legislature, of an act incorporating the New York Zoölogical Society, and a considerable representation of the Club is found in the list of its officers and managers. Other efforts, made by Boone and Crockett members in behalf of game and forest protection, have been less successful, and there is still a wide field for the Club's activities.

Public sentiment should be aroused on the general question of forest preservation, and especially in the matter of securing legislation which will adequately protect the game and the forests of the various forest reservations already established. Special attention was called to this point in the earlier volume published by the Club, from which we quote:

If it was worth while to establish these reservations, it is worth while to protect them. A general law, providing for the adequate guarding of all such national possessions, should be enacted by Congress, and wherever it may be necessary such Federal laws should be supplemented by laws of the States in which the reservations lie. The timber and the game ought to be made the absolute property of the Government, and it should be constituted a punishable offense to appropriate such property within the limits of the reservation. The game and timber on a reservation should be regarded as Government property, just as are the mules and the cordwood at an army post. If it is a crime to take the latter, it should be a crime to plunder a forest reservation.

In these reservations is to be found to-day every species of large game known to the United States, and the proper protection of the reservations means the perpetuating in full supply of all the indigenous mammals. If this care is provided, no species of American large game need ever become absolutely extinct; and intelligent effort for game protection may well be directed toward securing through national legislation the policing of forest preserves by timber and game wardens.

A really remarkable phenomenon in American animal life, described in the paper on the Yellowstone Park Protection Act, is the attitude now assumed toward mankind by the bears, both grizzly and black, in the Yellowstone National Park. The preservation of the game in the Park has unexpectedly resulted in turning a great many of the bears into scavengers for the hotels within the Park limits. Their tameness and familiarity are astonishing; they act much more like hogs than beasts of prey. Naturalists now have a chance of studying their character from an entirely new standpoint, and under entirely new conditions. It would be well worth the while of any student of nature to devote an entire season in the Park simply to study of bear life; never before has such an opportunity been afforded.

The incident mentioned on [page 421] was witnessed by Mr. W. Hallett Phillipps and Col. John Hay. Since this incident occurred, one bear has made a practice of going into the kitchen of the Geyser Hotel, where he is fed on pies. If given a chance, the bears will eat the pigs that are kept in pens near the hotels; but they have not shown any tendency to molest the horses, or to interfere in any way with the human beings around the hotels.

These incidents, and the confidence which the elk, deer and other animals in the Park have come to feel in man, are interesting, for they show how readily wild creatures may be taught to look upon human beings as friends.

Theodore Roosevelt,
George Bird Grinnell.

New York, August 1, 1895.