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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
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unted over them almostconstantly and can speak of m\ own CC1tain know ledge about them. The) are allof them filled with game, but I would 8 THE OUTING MAGAZINE suggest for prospective hunters the coun-try west of Durango City. Animals andmen can be hired there, and outfits pur-chased, and ten to fifteen hours on muleback from Durango will take the huntersinto a splendid country for a great vari-ety of big game. I would like to see some of oursportsmen come down. They wouldcome again. It would be not only ahunting trip, but afford them an oppor-tunity to see some of the wildest and occasions, said he, to watch for amountain lion to return for the carcassof a deer it had pulled down, but alwaysfailed. Mr. Barker learned to hunt with ourWestern Indians, spending his youth andearly manhood among them. His longand continued experience, coupled withthe fact that throughout his life he hasbeen a close student of the habits ofanimals and ways of the wilderness,makes of him an unusually expert
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BOONE BARKER, EX-U. S. SOLDIER AND STATION AGENT, WHO KEEPS FRESH GAME ONHIS TABLE THE YEAR ROUND. most picturesque country on the con-tinent. It is inexpensive hunting in Mexico.There is no license to pay, and men andanimals can be hired at almost any placeat fifty cents gold for each per day. Youmay say that I shall be very glad toanswer sportsmens letters respectingthe country, and advise them as to out-fitting and hunting localities. Im keenon the sport myself, and you know werea sort of fraternity. * The one trophy that Barker has failedto secure is the mountain lion. Ive satfor many hours at a stretch on different ♦Those Interested may address Mr. Boone Barker, Tepehuanes, Durango, Mexico. hunter. If he cannot, therefore, get themountain lion without dogs, no ordinarysportsman can hope to do so. For thisreason I would suggest that those de-siring to secure mountain lion or jaguar,or even to make a certainty of gettingthe larger bears, take dogs. In most casesthese can be had,

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