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Title: Camera shots at big game
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Wallihan, Allen Grant, 1859- (from old catalog) Wallihan, Mary Augusta (Higgins) "Mrs. A. G. Wallihan," joint author. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Animals Animal behavior Game and game-birds. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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uch game preservation, for it isto the interest of our people as a whole. More and more, as itbecomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that thecamera will largely supplant the rifle. It is an excellent thingto have a nation proficient in marksmanship, and it is highly un-desirable that the rifle should be wholly laid by. But the shotis, after all, only a small part of the free life of the wilderness. 12 CAMERA SHOTS AT BIG GAME The chief attractions lie in the physical hardihood for which the life calls, the sense of limitless freedom which it brings, and the remoteness and wild charm and beauty of primitive nature. All of this we get exactly as much in hunting with the camera as in hunting with the rifle; and of the two, the former is the kind of sport which calls for the higher degree of skill, patience, resolution, and knowledge of the life history of the animal sought. Theodore Roosevelt. Dated Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N. Y.,May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one.
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t- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PHOTOGRAVURES A Surprised Band. -^ Deer Drinking. Bucks and Does. Deer Crossing the River at Night. A Fawn, hiding. Startled Does. A Pair of Elk. Antelope and Badger. A Bunch of Antelope. A Band of Mountain Sheep. An Old Ram. Ducks in the River In the Snow. ^ Leaping Cougar. An Anxious Cougar Hound. An Ugly Customer. 13 14 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS At Bay. Hound and Treed Wildcat. Jack-rabbit, Resting and on the Jump. A Black Bear. A Coyote. HALF-TONE PLATES I caught them strung clear across the river. A herd crossing to the opposite slope. The main part of the band was to the left of the view. They were at attention instantly. They evidently suspected something. With every sense alert for danger. He is not frightened, but stops short. The old doe looked back to see if there really was any danger. So I exposed on this spike at thirty feet. He was beautiful, standing amid the flowers and grasses. This time he stood facing me. I caught a fine picture at the short di

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