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Title: American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938 Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Subjects: Big game hunting
Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s to the flat plain; from the hills we couldsee the crowd gathered around the arch waitingfor me to come. We put spurs to our horses andcantered rapidly toward the appointed place, andon the way we passed within forty yards of a scoreof black-tails, which merely moved to one side andlooked at us, and within a hundred yards of half adozen antelope. To any lover of nature it couldnot help being a delightful thing to see the wildand timid creatures of the wilderness rendered sotame; and their tameness In the immediate neigh-borhood of Gardiner, on the very edge of thePark, spoke volumes for the patriotic good senseof the citizens of Montana. Major Pitcher In-formed me that both the Montana and Wyomingpeople were co-operating with him In zealousfashion to preserve the game and put a stop topoaching. For their attitude In this regard theydeserve the cordial thanks of all Americans Inter-ested In these great popular playgrounds, where bitsof the old wilderness scenery and the old wllder- 44
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Wilderness Reserves ness life are to be kept unspoiled for the benefitof our childrens children. Eastern people, andespecially eastern sportsmen, need to keep steadilyin mind the fact that the westerners who live inthe neighborhood of the forest preserves are themen who in the last resort will determine whetheror not these preserves are to be permanent. Theycannot in the long run be kept as forest and gamereservations unless the settlers roundabout believein them and heartily support them; and the rightsof these settlers must be carefully safeguarded, andthey must be shown that the movement is reallyin their interest. The eastern sportsman who failsto recognize these facts can do little but harm byadvocacy of forest reserves. It was in the interior of the Park, at the hotelsbeside the lake, the falls, and the various geyserbasins, that we would have seen the bears had theseason been late enough; but unfortunately thebears were still for the most part hibernating. Wesaw two or three tr

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