Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Mair, Alexander Mair Alexander

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ISBN 10: 1440081379 ISBN 13: 9781440081378

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2010

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Excerpt from Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter

While a man is known by the friends he has, he is judged by the friend he is, and it is during the hours of his relaxations, and the periods of vacation from his routine work, that a man's personality is seen and judged by his friends.

His public acts, if he be in public Office, are readily understood by them as the logical consequence of the characteristics they have learned to know, and have seen expressed in his hours of relaxation.

By the great mass of the people of the United States Theodore Roosevelt was judged only by his public life, and the expression of his personality was seen through his fulfilment of public office.

Fortunately for the traditions concerning him, soon after his death the book, Theodore Roosevelt's Let ters to His Children appeared, which moulded those traditions nearer reality than they ever otherwise would have been, for the majority Of men who had judged him by his public career alone, saw then in these letters the real personality with all the charm of its human quali ties.

It would seem in the introduction to one of the books, which contains the records of trips taken by him for re laxation, or his short essays describing his observations and his thoughts at these times, that it would be most fitting to consider Theodore Roosevelt as a companion.

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CHAPTER I /,//'" WITH THE COUGAR HOU~DS IN January, 190J, I started on a five weeks~ cougar hunt from lVleeker in N orth.vest Colorado. 11 v COtn- J panions ,vere 1'1r. Philip B. Stewart and Dr. Gerald Webb, of Colorado Sp rings; Stewart vas the captain of the victorious Yale nine of '86. Ve reached ~1ecker on January I Ith, after a forty mile drive from the railroad, through the bitter winter weather; it was eighteen degrees below zero vhen we started. At i1eeker we met John B. Goff, the hunter, and left town the next morning on horseback for his ranch, our hunting beginning that same afternoon, when after a brisk run our dogs treed :1 bobcat. After a fortnight Stewart and Vebb returned, Goff and I staying out three weeks longer. Ve did not have to camp out, thanks to the warm-hearted hospitality of the proprietor and manager of the Keystone Ranch, and of the ~·1athes Brothers and Judge Forc:man, both of whose ranches I also visited. The five

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; WITH THE COUGAR HOUNDS; CHAPTER 11; A COLORADO BEAR HUNT 68; CHAPTER III; VOLF-COURSING • lOa; CHAPTER IV; HUNTING IN THE CATTLE COUNTRY; THE PRONGRUCK 133; CHAPTER V; A SHOT AT A MOUNTATN' SHEE~; CHAPTER VI; THE WHITETAlL DEER; CHAPTER VII; · 18 J; · 193; THE MULE-DEER OR ROCKY MOUNTAIN BlACKTAlL • '1'14 CHAPTER VIII; PAGE; THE WAPITr OR ROUND-HoRNED ELK; CHAPTER IX; WILDERNESS RESERVES; THE YELLOWSTONE PARK 287; CHAPTER X; BOOKS ON BrG GAME · 3 I 8; CHAPTER XI; AT HOME · 339; APPENDIX · 361; *** Five 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 It Deer Family"

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1440081379
• ISBN 13: 9781440081378
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 478