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- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 8 of The wilderness hunter ... The Death of the Grizzly. (From the Drawing by A. B. Frost.)
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 9 of The wilderness hunter ... NEW LIBRARY EDITION THE iX WILDERNESS HUNTER Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT TWO VOLUMES IN ONE PART I G. P. PUTNAM S SONS NEW YORK AND…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 10 of The wilderness hunter ... •7f75~ Copyright, 1893 by G. P. PUTNAM S SONS 3 «:r t H
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 13 of The wilderness hunter ... They saw the silences Move by and beckon; saw the forms, The very beards, of burly storms, And heard them talk like sounding seas They saw the snowy mountains rolled And heaved…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 14 of The wilderness hunter ...
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 15 of The wilderness hunter ... PREFACE FOR a number of years much of my life was spent either in the wilderness or on the borders of the settled country if, indeed, settled is a term that can…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 16 of The wilderness hunter ... viii Preface No one but he who has partaken thereof can understand the keen deHght of hunting in lonely lands. For him is the joy of the horse well ridden and the…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 17 of The wilderness hunter ... CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE AMERICAN WILDERNESS; WILDERNESS HUNTERS AND WILDERNESS GAME The American wilderness Forests, plains, mountains Likeness and unlikeness to the Old- World wilderness Wil- derness hunters Boone, Crockett, Houston, Carson…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 18 of The wilderness hunter ... X Contents CHAPTER IV ON THE CATTLE RANGES; THE PRONGHORN ANTELOPE Riding to the round-up The open plains Sights and sounds Gophers, prairie dogs, sharp-tail grouse, antelope The cow-camp Standing night guard…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 19 of The wilderness hunter ... Contents xi CHAPTER VII MOUNTAIN game; THE WHITE-GOAT A trip to the Bighole Basin Incidents of travel with a wagon Camp among the moiintains -A trip on foot after goats Spruce grouse…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 20 of The wilderness hunter ... xii Contents CHAPTER X AN ELK-HUNT AT TWO-OCEAN PASS In the Shoshones Travelling with a pack-train Scenery Flowers A squaw-man Bull elk shot in rain while chal- lenging Storm Breaking camp in…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 21 of The wilderness hunter ... THE WILDERNESS HUNTER
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 23 of The wilderness hunter ... THE WILDERNESS HUNTER CHAPTER I THE AMERICAN WILDERNESS; WILDERNESS HUNTERS AND WILDERNESS GAME M ANIFOLD are the shapes taken by the American wilderness. In the east, from the Atlantic coast to the…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 24 of The wilderness hunter ... 2 The Wilderness Hunter Some distance beyond the Mississippi, stretch- ing from Texas to North Dakota, and westward to the Rocky Mountains, lies the plains country. This is a region of light…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 25 of The wilderness hunter ... The American Wilderness 3 sand; the smaller watercourses are dry through- out the greater part of the year. Beyond this desert region rise the sunny Sierras of California, with their flower-clad slopes…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 26 of The wilderness hunter ... 4 The Wilderness Hunter zones of the Old and New Worlds are very similar, differing from one another much less than they do from the various regions south of them, or than…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 27 of The wilderness hunter ... The American Wilderness 5 ruminant which sheds its horns annually, is a dis- tant representative of the Old- World antelopes of the steppes the queer white antelope-goat has for its nearest kinsfolk…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 28 of The wilderness hunter ... 6 The Wilderness Hunter approaching in size the giant redwoods and se- quoias of the Pacific slope. Nature here is generally on a larger scale than in the Old- World home of…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 29 of The wilderness hunter ... The American Wilderness 7 backwoods riflemen to settle in the beautiful coimtry of Kentucky, where the red and the white warriors strove with such obstinate rage that both races alike grew to…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 30 of The wilderness hunter ... 8 The Wilderness Hunter the Revolutionary War was at its height, George Rogers Clark, himself a mighty hunter of the old backwoods type, led his handful of hunter-soldiers to the conquest of…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 31 of The wilderness hunter ... The American Wilderness 9 border-farmers, a masterful race, good fighters and good breeders, as all masterful races must be. Very characteristic in its way was the career of quaint, honest, fearless Davy…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 32 of The wilderness hunter ... lo The Wilderness Hunter freedom from the lancers and carbineers of Santa Anna. Then his dark soul flamed again into burning life; riding by night and day he joined the risen Texans,…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 33 of The wilderness hunter ... The American Wilderness 1 1 war on the Indians, scarcely more savage than themselves, or made long raids for plunder and horses against the outlying Mexican settlements. The best, the bravest, the…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 34 of The wilderness hunter ... 12 The Wilderness Hunter of the coasts of Puget Sound. Their main busi- ness was trapping, furs being the only articles yielded by the wilderness, as they knew it, which were both…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 35 of The wilderness hunter ... The American Wilderness 13 longer the mainstay of the adventurous plainsmen. Foremost among the beasts of the chase, on ac- count of its numbers, its size, and its economic im- portance, was…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 36 of The wilderness hunter ... 14 The Wilderness Hunter Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, and from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific. The frontier had come to an end it had vanished. With it vanished also the…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 37 of The wilderness hunter ... The American Wilderness 15 Moreover, the regular army which played so im- portant a part in all the later stages of the winning of the west produced its full share of mighty…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 38 of The wilderness hunter ... i6 The Wilderness Hunter landed in Virginia the bison ranged east of the AUeghanies almost to the sea-coast, westward to the dry deserts lying beyond the Rocky Mountains, northward to the Great…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 39 of The wilderness hunter ... The American Wilderness 17 lies. Yet he is truly a grand and noble beast, and his loss from our prairies and forests is as keenly regretted by the lover of nature and…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922
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Image 40 of The wilderness hunter ... 1 8 The Wilderness Hunter reached from ocean to ocean and it went in herds of thousands of individuals; but it has suffered more from the persecution of hunters than any- other…
- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1922