New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-25
FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1856.
Ready This Day:
MAYNE REDS HUNTING and TRAPPING
WI ADVENTURES.
THE HUNTERS FEAST:
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MAINE RElD dINllNU ana lhA1IlNU
WI ADVENTURES.
THE HUNTERS FEAST:
Or, CONVERSATIONS AROUND THE CAMPFIRE.
BY CAPT. MAYyE REID
Author Of The Rife Rangers" The Scalp Hunters"
Beautifully Illustrated with Enersyinss By v or Price >
We say there book which gives such
thrilling yet truthful the stirring perols
fife Of Tapper does the deeply interesting and instructive
volume before The author whose powers description
well the American reader through the medium of his
Rife Rangers &c, has admirably blended instruction
with amuseInent for while Re the Wolf Killer" cheers the
Campfire with his neveraing anecdotes the HunerNstur
s takes every occasion inform the delighted auditors Of the
habits hauni characteristics Of the animal under dcus
sion and this be does IN which cannot fail 70 fix the
the memory of the reader The following brief
and synopsis Of Contents give idea
adventures be met with in this extraordinary work:
CONTENTS.
A Hunting Party. The Blsck Bear of America.
The Camp and Campfire Tie Tapper Trapped.
Besancon's Adventures IN the The American Deer
Swsnps. Deer-Hunt in " 0ug-Out"
The Passenger Pigeons Old Ike and the Grizzly.
Hunt with Howzer. A Battle with Grizzly bears
Killing a Cougar. The Swans Of America.
The Cougar. Hunting the Moose.
Old Ike's Adventure. The Prairie Wolf and Wolf
A Rat.H1nt Hunting the Tapir.
Maskeoes and their Aniidote Adventure with Buffalo
The Coon and his Habts Inc Bison
wild Hogs OF the Woods. Approaching the Buffalo.
freed BY Poccaries. UNEXPECTED Guests.
A Duck Shooting Adventure A Supper of WolfM Mutton.
Hunting the Nicuna Hare Hunting and Cricket
A ChBcu Of NicuIas. Driving.
Squirrel Shooting. Grand Battle.
freeing a Bear The Route Home.
We quote few extracts from the many fsttering notices Of
the Press:
FROM The CoURsNT HARTFORD
Capt Reid is fayorite author OF His style always
spghy his descriptions graphic and his narrative condensed
ard striking This work of his bcst is of the
vivid pictures Of Western hunters life that we have
He knows how seize upon the pecuiae Of any
situation incident and them up the most pqusnt
style for the qualification Of his resdersn
FROM THE HERALD, ST. Louis, Mo $500
In all our experience we have never met with BOOK which
such vivid and soutng pictures Of the wonderful and
terrible adventures Of Western hunter and trapper life"
FROM The EVENING JOURNAL, ALBANY
Capt Reid home IN the woods and writes with the zet
of Sportsman The work abounds in wonderful sdSen
tuTe."
FRoM THE ADvERrIsER, PORTLAND, Ne.
The author is already avoraby known vivid narrator
and here be does justice himself in giving all the thrilling
exploits Of hunter life. II IL a book which will inter
est both old and young and happy will be the eside where
From THE TRIBUNE, BA1H, Me-
Another work from that inexhaustible story-teer Capt
e,caTes and queer odd adventures told in the aunties and
Tscest style"
Any who has cracked rife or dreamed OF the
hunters life will enjoy this volume with perfect gusto
Its illustrations themselves but scinate the reader TO be-
better acquainted with the work"
FROM FRED. DoUGLssss PAPER, ROCHESTER, " \.
d" IL is calculated both to instruct and amuse.'
FROM TIE EeIs, WORCESTER, Mass
Capt Reid stands to-day without rival for supremacy in
the wild dashng and yet improving literature OF the hunting
ground"
FRoN THE TRIBUNE DETROIT, Men.
The Hunters Feast, in opinion, is Of the
most thrilling and vivid pictures he has drawn. Beside its
deeIyexcitng character contains much useful information
regard the habits Of the various animals which nhabt our
Western wlds'
This s one of the few books hch will pay dividend the
money invested in its purchase
DE WITT 3 DAVENPORT, Publishers,
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