You were with me on one of the trips described in this volume, and I trust that to look over it will recall the pleasant days we spent together.

Your friend,

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House, October 2, 1905.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
PAGE
With the Cougar Hounds[1]
CHAPTER II
A Colorado Bear Hunt[68]
CHAPTER III
Wolf-Coursing[100]
CHAPTER IV
Hunting in the Cattle Country; The Prongbuck[133]
CHAPTER V
A Shot at a Mountain Sheep[181]
CHAPTER VI
The Whitetail Deer[193]
CHAPTER VII
The Mule-Deer or Rocky Mountain Blacktail[224]
CHAPTER VIII
The Wapiti or Round-Horned Elk[256]
CHAPTER IX
Wilderness Reserves; The Yellowstone Park[287]
CHAPTER X
Books on Big Game[318]
CHAPTER XI
At Home[339]
CHAPTER XII
In the Louisiana Canebrakes[360]
CHAPTER XIII
Small Country Neighbors[391]

⁂ Seven of these Chapters have been recently written; the others have been revised and added to since they originally appeared in the publications of the Boone and Crockett Club and in Mr. Caspar Whitney’s “Deer Family.”

ILLUSTRATIONS

Theodore Roosevelt[Frontispiece]
Photogravure from a photograph.
FACING PAGE
Goff and the Pack[5]
Turk and a Bobcat in Top of a Pinyon[12]
Bobcat in Pinyon[16]
Starting for a Hunt[33]
The First Cougar Killed[37]
After the Fight[44]
Cougar in a Tree[50]
Barking Treed[63]
Starting for Camp[68]
At Dinner[74]
The Pack Strikes the Fresh Bear Trail[77]
Death of the Big Bear[83]
Stewart and the Bobcat[86]
The Pack Baying the Bear[88]
A Doily Bear[91]
The Big Bear[94]
Starting Toward the Wolf Grounds[101]
Greyhounds Resting after a Run[104]
At the Tail of the Chuck Wagon[108]
The Big D Cow Pony[112]
Abernethy and Coyote[116]
Abernethy Returns from the Hunt[125]
Bony Moore and the Coyote[129]
On the Little Missouri[138]
Camping on the Antelope Grounds[156]
Ranch Wagon Returning from Hunt[182]
Elkhorn Ranch[216]
The Ranch House[238]
The Ranch Veranda[248]
The Pack Train[264]
Trophies of a Successful Hunt[277]
Trophies in the White House Dining-Room[284]
Antelope in the Streets of Gardiner[294]
Blacktail Deer on Parade Ground[299]
Elk in Snow[304]
Oom John[309]
Bears and Tourists[311]
Grizzly Bear and Cook[314]
The Bear and the Chambermaid[316]
The North Room at Sagamore Hill[324]
Renown[341]
His First Buck[343]
Algonquin and Skip[344]
Peter Rabbit[346]
The Guinea Pigs[348]
Family Friends[350]
Josiah[354]
Bleistein Jumping[356]
The Bear Hunters[366]
Listening for the Pack[376]
Audrey Takes the Bars[396]
The Stone Wall[402]
Roswell Behaves Like a Gentleman[414]
Roswell Fights for His Head[418]