THEODORE ROOSEVELT ON HUNTING. Edited and with an introduction by Lamar Underwood. Revised and expanded.

(2003) 2019 revised paperback edition. Large 8vo (178 x 229mm). Ppxvi,519. Not illustrated.

"there have been few hunters as daring, as powerful, and as articulate as our twenty-sixth president, Theodore Roosevelt. From his ranching years in the Dakaota Territory to his famous African adventures, Roosevelt's tales are unparalleled stories of the hunt. The best of them are collected here." Chapters include: Preface to the New Edition; New Edition. Part One, The Western Years: The making of a hunter; When moose become dangerous; Portrait of the grisly; Hunting in the cattle country; The Bison - America's first big game; The pioneer hunters / trappers; Wilderness hunters and wilderness game; Hunting from a Bad Lands ranch; Hunting the grisly; The deer of the River Bottoms; The black-tail deer; The prong buck, a trip on the Prairie; Still-hunting elk on the mountains; A trip after mountain sheep; The black bear; Mountain game, the white goat; The moose, the beast of the woodland; Hunting lore. Part Two, Safari: Foreword; A railroad through the Pleistocene; Lion hunting on the Kapiti Plains; On safari, rhino and giraffe; Hunting in the Sotik; elephant hunting on Mount Kenia; To the Uasin Gishu; Uganda and the Great Nyanza Lakes; Of ants and elephants.