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.