New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-28
,o,;,d the sboulders, afterward going out through

behind the shoulders al'er"a'u s''Ae
his chest" - mn
The best shot the author ever made-and IL ccr
family was a remarkable one-is thus told:
aTbe country stretched away like an endless pil-
Iowv sea of dull brown soil and barren sage prusn
the valleys making long Pda rsapv sameness. At
io,ath' "a we came out on a rounded ridge. three
black tailed bucks started up from a lot OF sage
brush some two hundred ysTd' away anu yepy long
shot especially to try running but IS ,dgs aedg
seemed scarce and cartridges were pa inlet went
low striking in line at the feet of the hndm9st
held very high the next time, making wild shos
above and ahead of them, which had the Of
turning them and they went round a shoulder Oh
a bluff being by ,this time down IN iHe sa lily,
Having plentyof time elevated the sights "a th,ng
hardly ever do to four unaTed yat thew had ev
IDENTIFY gotten over their fright Tor pretty sfPn and
walked out from the other side OF tne oiu IL n
came to standstil broadsde towaio re Sos raising
tbo I rls another stepped ont and began to walk
toward the first thought might as wen n and
much OF target a pgsS 10 come M ont further
which he did Immediately and STOOD sun 1nSs
alongside of the first aimed above ms n hucts
and RULED the trigger. Over went the two DUCKS sn
And when rushed down to where they lay found
had pulled little to one side and the outlets ,n
broken the backs of both VINE my led of the
distance It was Just four hundred ana tn'r'S o"0
long PAGES; over four hundred yards.
These extracts necessarily convey but an imper-
eot ,,rassion of the work done. Sporting on the
plains aud in the Bad Lands is laborious III inc lui
est sense, and there many dangers 10 DO en-
countered besides that of breaking one neck "hlc
is part and parcel of he7pursuit OF the blghorh OF
mountain sheep Tho eager hunter may oe s'.i'-
hunting deer, stalking itonhands ana Knees pam
fully dragging his body along the surface OF INC
crornd when n sudden rattle close by will warn
e, rIon pOilp1
to strike within yard of his face Or he may ne
oalloninp his horse over what looks ike sofa
ground. when suddenly the dry crust VIII break
and down will 90 the animal into a mudhole, or
still worse quick-sand Then if he IS alone he Is
in for hours of tremendous work to release the pony
and perhaps after all it is cenguied VI al'er u
hard DAYS hunt he may have to make a" dry camp
which is to say, a camp without water. UT nea'S
storm may catch him in the open, and almost
numb him before he can reach shelter Then
again. in hunting buffalo. elk and bear, the game
itself is not seldom dangerous-ln the latter case
ALWAYS The heavy buffalo is very agile despite
his weight and if he is pursued on an unframed
borse NAV catch the hunter and cripple even kill
him. The elk too will sometimes turn hercely to
bay and as for the grizzly, though not so aggressive
as formerly, he is always foe to be warily APP
preached at the hunterSperil
The chapter on bear hunting has already bcen
printed in one of the magazines and may therefore
be passed over The chapters on.elk and big-horn
huntIng.are full of interest. Mr.. Roosevelt is n
most appreciatlve and withali modest sportsman,
fully alive to the Importance of details, gathering AT
every step fresh stores of nformationi about the
habitat customs and ways of the creatures against
whom he goes forth. He is not one of those hunters
who seem to kill for the mere tsakc sof slaughter.
The birds and beasts that fallto his shotgun ana
rife are slain on unitarian principles ana are
destined for the pot 1t may safely be asserted
that no such thorough book on the game OF the
plains has been written before and while it will be
welcomedwarmly by all true.sportsmen. the natural
list and the lover of travels will find plenty in 1t to
repay perusaL
As regardssthe makeup of the work. it is really
magnificent The /" Meiora edition is limited to
500 copies. quarto 1t is printed on hand-lald
thick white paper and with beautiful large clear
type and is bound strongly and neatly in an arts
tic cover The Messrs. Putnam may well be proud
of this elegant production of the Knickerbocker
Press. The illustrations plentiful and excellent
The names of the lartsts alone demonstrate this.
and the engravIngs are all Chinese or japanese
paper in the daintiest possible style The engrav-
| ings0f heads ofigame deserve special commenda-
| ton. The decrs' heads exquisite and that OF
the big-horn equally fine. There four etchings
also, and NUMBER OF very pie'tJ Hl''"i9 az" '''
pieces of which are quite as deserving III thef
| way as the larger compositions.
Taxing it altogether therefore, Mr.. Roosevelt's
hook is alike creditable to the author and TO the
publishers 1t is in fact onc'of those distinctivey
| American books which ought to be always welcomed
as contributing distinctly to the literary prestige
of the country all over the world. For while no
author need be ashamed of such style and treat
ment. such matter as we'll manner. as Mr.. Roose-
welt has here presented. certainly there is no press
| not even in France-which can to-day turn out
more excellent work all round than the Messrs
| Putnam have done here; while no country can
| compete with the engraving work
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