Hunting in Many Lands: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club. Various

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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Table of Contents

       Preface

       Hunting in Many Lands

       Hunting in East Africa

       To the Gulf of Cortez

       A Canadian Moose Hunt

       A Hunting Trip in India

       Dog Sledging in the North

       Wolf-Hunting in Russia

       A Bear-Hunt in the Sierras

       The Ascent of Chief Mountain

       The Cougar

       Big Game of Mongolia and Tibet

       Hunting in the Cattle Country

       Wolf-Coursing

       Game Laws

       Protection of the Yellowstone National Park

       The Yellowstone National Park Protection Act

       Head-Measurements of the Trophies at the Madison Square Garden Sportsmen's Exhibition

       TABULATED SERIES

       National Park Protective Act

       Constitution of the Boone and Crockett Club

       Article I.

       Article II.

       Article III.

       Article IV.

       Article V.

       Article VI.

       Article VII.

       Article VIII.

       Article IX.

       Officers of the Boone and Crockett Club 1895

       President.

       Secretary and Treasurer.

       Executive Committee.

       Editorial Committee.

       List of Members of the Boone and Crockett Club

Preface

       Table of Contents

      The first volume published by the Boone and Crockett Club, under the title "American Big Game Hunting," confined itself, as its title implied, to sport on this continent. In presenting the second volume, a number of sketches are included written by members who have hunted big game in other lands. The contributions of those whose names are so well known in connection with explorations in China and Tibet, and in Africa, have an exceptional interest for men whose use of the rifle has been confined entirely to the North American continent.

      During the two years that have elapsed since the appearance of its last volume, the Boone and Crockett Club has not been idle. The activity of its members was largely instrumental in securing at last the passage by Congress of an act to protect the Yellowstone National Park, and to punish crimes and offenses within its borders, though it may be questioned whether even their efforts would have had any result had not the public interest been aroused, and the Congressional conscience pricked, by the wholesale slaughter of buffalo which took place in the Park in March, 1894, as elsewhere detailed by Capt. Anderson and the editors. Besides this, the Club has secured the passage, by the New York Legislature, of an act incorporating the New York Zoölogical Society, and a considerable representation of the Club is found in the list of its officers and managers. Other efforts, made by Boone and Crockett members in behalf of game and forest protection, have been less successful, and there is still a wide field for the Club's activities.

      Public sentiment should be aroused on the general question of forest preservation, and especially in the matter of securing legislation which will adequately protect the game and the forests of the various forest reservations already established. Special attention was called to this point in the earlier volume published by the Club, from which we quote:

      If it was worth while to establish these reservations, it is worth while to protect them. A general law, providing for the adequate guarding of all such national possessions, should be enacted by Congress, and wherever it may be necessary such Federal laws should be supplemented by laws of the States in which the reservations lie. The timber and the game ought to be made the absolute property of the Government, and it should be constituted a punishable offense to appropriate such property within the limits of the reservation.