Hunting At High Altitudes the book of the Boone And Crockett Club

ex Shooting in the ThiarrShan Mountains 314 By Geo. L. Harrison, Jr. 3 Contents Page A Shooting Trip in Northwestern Rhodesia 344 By Geo. L. Harrison, Jr. The Condition of Wild Life in Alaska . .367 By Madison Grant. Deer Hunting in Cuba 393 By General Roger D. Williams. Elephant Seals of Guadalupe Island . . . 406 By Dr. Charles H. Townsend. The Game Preservation Committee , . .421 Brief History of the Boone and Crockett Club 433 By the Editor. Officers of the Boone and Crockett Club . .492 Committees of the Boone and Crockett Club 493 Report of Nominating Committee . . . 494 Report of the Treasurer 499 Constitution Boone and Crockett Club . .500 Rules of the Executive Committee . . . 504 List of Members Boone and Crockett Club . 505 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Col. Wm. D. Pickett Frontispiece Facing page Fort Benton in 1881 38 Bull Train at Fort Benton 138 Mule Train at Fort Benton 138 Kirghiz Falconers 202 Battlefield of September 13, 1883 ... 238 Khudai Khildi 250 Ivan with Roebuck Heads 266 Crossing a Snow Field 282 Returning from a Day with Ibex . . . .298 Thian Shan Wapiti .314 Crossing a Pass 330 Pack Bull Tekkes River 346 5 List of Illustrations Facing Page Peninsula Bear, Captured at Moeller Bay, Alaska 366 Adult Male and Female Elephant Seal, Guadalupe Island 394 Adult Male Elephant Seal, Guadalupe Island 394 South End of Elephant Seal Rookery, Guada lupe Island 406 Elephant Seals Nearly Two Years Old in the New York Aquarium . . . .418 PREFACE This is the fifth volume of the books of the Boone and Crockett Club, the last one having been published in 1904. The Club is fortunate in having for the volume the chapters which treat of the hunting adventures of Colonel Wm. D. Pickett, from 1876 to 1883. For many years Colonel Pickett was one of the vice-presidents of the Club, representing Wyoming, and has had an experience in hunting the grizzly bear greater probably than that of any man who ever lived. A keen sportsman, a lover of outdoor life, and a Southern gentleman, Colonel Pickett represents the ideals of the Boone and Crockett Club. He hunted in the Rocky Mountains at a time when people there were few and game was abundant. The day of the trapper had passed, and that of the skin hunter was just beginning. As indicated by its title, this volume deals chiefly with hunting in the high mountains. Yet this hunting does not all lie close to timber line. 7 Preface Mr. Harrisons narrative dealing with the great game of Rhodesia, and that of General Roger D. Williams, about the introduced deer in Cuba, bring up forms of sport to most of us unknown. It has been thought well to reprint here the Brief History of the Boone and Crockett Club, prepared some time ago, and issued separately. Madison Grants article on the wild life of Alaska, written some years ago, has been brought down to date. The Club has consistently striven and with some success to secure the establishment of game refuges in the different forest reserves. There is great promise in the State of Arizona, where, through the efforts of Charles Sheldon and E. W. Nelson, much popular interest in this subject has been awakened. A matter in which the Club may feel a just pride is the share it had in assisting in the passage of the bill to place migratory birds under the charge of the Federal Government a measure which orig inated with one of its own members, Hon. George Shiras, 3d, and which became law in March, 1913. GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL. NEW YORK, July, 1913...