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Title: The sportsman's and tourist's guide to the hunting and fishing grounds and pleasure resorts of the United States and Canadian provinces ..
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Suydam, Charles, (from old catalog) comp
Subjects: Hunting Fishing
Publisher: New York, C. Suydam
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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esh deertracks and saw several flocks of ducks, andwere assured that durii:g September, and infact, till snow flies, the wild fowl that aboundin the marshes at the head of the bay and inthe bay itself, are not to be counted. On the whole, we should recommend theWisconsin Central Railroad and its country,to the sportsman because we believe there isabundance ot game within easy reach of theline and because it has not been overrun bysportsmen or pot hunters. It is within easyreach of Chicago, and consequently of the en-tire sporting community. The Milwaukee &St. Paul night train, draws the WisconsinCentral sleeper to Milwaukee, whence it isdrawn by the night mail to the north. Haltsof twenty minutes are made at Menasha,Stevens Point, and Phillips for meals, and the 168 THE SPORTSMANS AND TOURISTS GUIDE. traveler is landed fresh and in good condition tend every courtesy to a stranger; and alto-at some station whence he can go out shooting ; gether, the new district is worthy of atten-
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withoiit liaving to take camp equipage, as ac- I tion. At Stevens Point, inquire of mine hostcoramodatiou can be got at each station. The of the Central Hotel, at Dorchester of D. 0.inhabitants are hospitable and willing to ex- I Miltimore, at Westboro, of A. S. Russell, HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 159 at Ashland of Davis, the landlord of the ColbyHouse; these gentlemen are all ready andwilling to afford information. Chequaraejion Bay, the northern ter-minus of the Wisconsin Central Railroad,is on an arm of Lake Superior, runningsouthwest down among the Apostle Is-lands into the wilderness of Wisconsin.It is the basin that holds the waters ofa score of beautiful streams, whose crys- Sioux, Sand, and Onion, and such lesserstreams as rish,Whittleseys,yanderven-ters, and Silver creeks, and Trout Brook.All these and many others are excellenttrout streams, on whose banks the wornbusiness man can sit and angle to hishearts content. Houghton Point, distant about fivemil

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