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Title: An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hallock, Charles, 1834-1917 Pond, Fred E
Subjects: Fishing -- United States
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Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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at the SinclairHouse, at 754 Broadway, and the president occupied a chair made of horns, whichwas presented by Grizzly Adams, a noted mountain man from the Great Divide.P. T. Barnum and he fell together at the old Museum, opposite St. Pauls church,and startling exhibitions were given, to which Daniel and the lions were asnothing. Then there were Isaac McLellan, who used to do poems for the Journalof Commerce when Wm. C. Prime wrote fishing sketches over the signature ofW., and his cousin, Saml C. Clarke; Daniel Webster, their intimate anglingcompanion; George A. Boardman, Prof. Henry and Spencer F. Baird, of theSmithsonian; Robt. Ridgeway, X. Y. Maynard, Edward A. Samuels and hispartner, H. H.Kimball; Geo. D. Lawrence, who donated a marvelous bird collectionto the National Museum, the latter eminent naturalists and game seekers whomI knew personally, and often intimately, now gone the way of all the earth. Lieut. Geo. F. Ruxton, of the English army, exploited all the notable plainsmen
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SPKXCER 1. BAIRD, I-IUST V. S. rISll COM M ISSKINEK. THE NEWYORlPUBLIC LIBHAS^ ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1-ARLV Ki:CO)J.l-:CTI()XS. m hunters and trappers up to the date of his Life in the Far West. Mountains,lakes and buttes commemorate their names: Fremonts Peak, Lake Bonneville,Williams Creek, and the rest. Capt. Jim Bridger wrote up the Yellowstone countryand was classed by incredulous readers with the father of liars. Jim Beckworlh,a mestizo, born in St. Louis, whose whole family had been massacred by Indianson the plains, got someone to edit his remarkable experiences and put them intobook form. Lieuts. Emory and Geo. M. Wheeler, and Profs. Suckley and Bailey,all government experts, had followed on the trail of Lewis and Clarke, PikeFremont and Marcus Whitman (a pupil of my grandfather), and laid open thesecrets of the Great Divide on both slopes. I suppose it was the perusal of thesebooks which drew me to the unexplored region west of the Mississippi, which wasmarked

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