American Big Game in Its Haunts The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club EDITOR GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL 1904 [Illustration: THEODORE ROOSEVELT Founder of the Boone and Crockett Club] Contents Theodore Roosevelt Wilderness Reserves Theodore Roosevelt. The Zoology of North American Big Game Arthur Erwin Brown. Big Game Shooting in Alaska: I. Bear Hunting on Kadiak Island II. Bear Hunting on the Alaska Peninsula III. My Big Bear of Shuyak IV. The White Sheep of Kenai Peninsula. V. Hunting the Giant Moose James H. Kidder. The Kadiak Bear and his Home W. Lord Smith. The Mountain Sheep and its Range George Bird Grinnell. Preservation of the Wild Animals of North America Henry Fairfield Osborn. Distribution of the Moose Madison Grant. The Creating of Game Refuges Alden Sampson. Temiskaming Moose Paul J. Dashiell. Two Trophies from India John H. Prentice. Big-Game Refuges Forest Reserves of North America Appendix Forest Reserves as Game Preserves E.W. Nelson. Constitution of the Boone and Crockett Club Rules of the Committee on Admission Former Officers of the Boone and Crockett Club Officers of the Boone and Crockett Club List of Members List of Illustrations Theodore Roosevelt President Roosevelt and Major Pitcher Tourists and Bears "Oom John" Prongbucks Mountain Sheep Deer on the Parade Ground Whiskey Jacks Wapiti in Deep Snow Old Ephraim Mountain Sheep at Close Quarters Magpies A Silhouette of Blacktail Black Bears at Hotel Garbage Heap Chambermaid and Bear Cook and Bear Bull Bison Trophies from Alaska Loaded Baidarka--Barabara--Base of Supplies, Alaska Peninsula The Hunter and his Home Baidarka Heads of Dall's Sheep My Best Head St. Paul, Kadiak Island Sunset in English Bay, Kadiak Sitkalidak Island from Kadiak A Kadiak Eagle Bear Paths, Kadiak Island Bear Paths, Kadiak Island _Merycodus osborni_ Matthew Yearling Moose Maine Moose; about 1890 Moose Killed 1892, with Unusual Development of Brow Antlers Alaska Moose Head, Showing Unusual Development of Antlers "Bierstadt" Head, Killed 1880 Probably Largest Known Alaska Moose Head Temiskaming Moose Temiskaming Moose Temiskaming Moose Temiskaming Moose A Kahrigur Tiger Indian Leopard The New Buffalo Herd in the Yellowstone Park A Bit of Sheep Country Mountain Sheep at Rest Mule Deer at Fort Yellowstone NOTE.--The four last illustrations are from photographs taken by Major John Pitcher, Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park, especially for this volume. Preface