HUNTING IN MANY LANDS: THE BOOK OF THE BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB. Edited by Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell.

(1895) 1986 paperback reprint. 8vo paperback (138 x 208mm). Pp447. B/w photographs.

An anthology of nineteenth century big game hunting, including hunting in Canada, Russia, East Africa, India, Mongolia and Tibet. Also includes chapters on the Yellowstone Protection Act and "Head-Measurements of the Trophies at the Madison Square Garden Sportsmen's Exhibition". Chapters include: Hunting in East Africa; To the Gulf of Cortez; A Canadian moose hunt; A hunting trip in India; Dog sledging in the North; Wolf-hunting in Russia; A bear-hunt in the Sierras; The ascent of Chief Mountain; The cougar; Big game of Mongolia and Tibet; Hunting in the cattle country; Wolf-coursing; Game laws; Protection of the Yellowstone National Park. Appendices include: The Yellowstone National Park Protection Act; Head-measurements of the trophies at the Madison Square Gardens Sportsmen's Exposition; National Park Protective Act; Constitution of the Boone and Crockett Club; List of members. Contributors include: George S. Anderson, Roger D. Williams, Theodore Roosevelt, W.W. Rockhill, Casper W. Whitney, Henry L. Stimson, Alden Sampson, Henry T. Allen, D.M. Barringer, Elliott Roosevelt, Madison Grant, George H. Gould, W.A. Chanler.