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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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cinity of the Yellowstone National Park. If such members of Congress will consider, forexample, the efifect on the State of Wyoming, of theprotection of the Yellowstone Park, it seems impos-sible to believe that they will oppose the measure.Each non-resident sportsman going into Wyoming tohunt the game—much of which spends the summer inthe Yellowstone Park, and each autumn overflowsinto the adjacent territory—pays to the State thesum of forty dollars, and is obliged by law to hire aguide, for whose license he must pay ten dollarsadditional; besides that, he hires guides, saddle andpack animals, pays railroad and stage fare, and pur-chases provisions to last him for his hunt. In otherwords, at a modest calculation, each man who spendsfrom two weeks to a month hunting in Wyomingpays to the State and its citizens not less than onehundred and fifty dollars. Statistics as to the numberof hunters who visit Wyoming are not accessible;but if we assume that they are only two hundred in 446
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A BIT OF SHEEP COUNTRY Big-Game Refuges number, this means an actual contribution to theState of thirty thousand dollars in cash. Besidesthis, the protection of the game in such a refugeinsures a never-failing supply of meat to the settlersliving in the adjacent country, and offers them workfor themselves and their horses at a time when, ranchwork for the season being over, they have no payingoccupation. The value of a few skins taken by local hunters isvery inconsiderable when compared with such a sub-stantial inflow of actual cash to the State and theresidents of the territory neighboring to such arefuge. Moreover, it must be remembered that, fail-ing to put in operation some plan of this kind, whichshall absolutely protect the game and enable it to re-establish itself, the supply of meat and skins, nownaturally enough regarded as their own peculiar pos-session by the settlers living where such a refugemight be established, will inevitably grow less andless as time goes on; and, as

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