Category: Adventure
When we became a nation in 1776, the buffaloes, the first animals to vanish when the wilderness is settled, roved to the crests of the mountains which mark the western boundaries of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Carolinas. They were plentiful in what are now the States of Oh...
If out in the late fall or early spring, it is often possible to follow a bear's trail in the snow; having come upon it either by chance or hard hunting, or else having found wh...
9. CHAPTER IX.--IN COWBOY LAND.Out on the frontier, and generally among those who spend their lives in, or on the borders of, the wilderness, life is reduced to its elemental conditions. The passions and emot...
3. CHAPTER III.--OLD EPHRAIM, THE GRISLY BEAR.The king of the game beasts of temperate North America, because the most dangerous to the hunter, is the grisly bear; known to the few remaining old-time trappers of the Rockies...
8. CHAPTER VIII.--WOLVES AND WOLF-HOUNDS.The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation. It is still found scattered thinly throughout all the wilder portions of the United States, but has everyw...
7. CHAPTER VII.--HUNTING WITH HOUNDS.In hunting American big game with hounds, several entirely distinct methods are pursued. The true wilderness hunters, the men who in the early days lived alone in, or moved in p...
1. CHAPTER I.--THE BISON OR AMERICAN BUFFALO.When we became a nation in 1776, the buffaloes, the first animals to vanish when the wilderness is settled, roved to the crests of the mountains which mark the western boundarie...
5. CHAPTER V.--THE COUGAR.No animal of the chase is so difficult to kill by fair still-hunting as the cougar--that beast of many names, known in the East as panther and painter, in the West as mountain l...
6. CHAPTER VI.--A PECCARY HUNT ON THE NUECES.In the United States the peccary is only found in the southernmost corner of Texas. In April 1892, I made a flying visit to the ranch country of this region, starting from the t...
2. CHAPTER II.--THE BLACK BEAR.Next to the whitetail deer the black bear is the commonest and most widely distributed of American big game. It is still found quite plentifully in northern New England, in the...