Theodore Roosevelt on hunting / edited and with an Introduction by Lamar Underwood.
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- 9781493040025
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Main Library | NonFiction | 639.1097 R781 | Available | 33111009140282 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
There have been few hunters as daring, as powerful, and as articulate as the twenty-sixth US president, Theodore Roosevelt. From his ranching years in the Dakota Territory to the famous African adventures, Roosevelt's tales are unparalleled stories of the hunt. The best of them are collected here.
Of Roosevelt's many volumes of hunting and exploration, two reader favourites have always been Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail and African Game Trails, both excerpted here. During his ranching years, Roosevelt ranged far and wide, and his African trips were also famously bold. In all his expeditions, Roosevelt reveals in detail hunts that were incredibly journeys of both pursuit and discovery, for wherever he went in the outdoors he assumed the dual roles of hunter and naturalist.
The hunts range from upland birds and waterfowl to prized big game animals like elk, bear, and sheep amid lofty peaks. There are goat pursuits among iceglazed mountain spires, and close encounters with grizzlies in the black timber. He survives lion charges and buffalo attacks, and stumbles on elephants..
The Western Years has selections from "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman", sketches of sport on the Northern cattle plains. The Wilderness Hunter is an account of the big game of the United States and its chase with horse, hound and rifle. Safari has selections from African Game Trails.