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Hunting in Many Lands: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664637062
Table of Contents
Big Game of Mongolia and Tibet
Protection of the Yellowstone National Park
The Yellowstone National Park Protection Act
Head-Measurements of the Trophies at the Madison Square Garden Sportsmen's Exhibition
Constitution of the Boone and Crockett Club
Officers of the Boone and Crockett Club 1895
List of Members of the Boone and Crockett Club
Preface
The first volume published by the Boone and Crockett Club, under the title "American Big Game Hunting," confined itself, as its title implied, to sport on this continent. In presenting the second volume, a number of sketches are included written by members who have hunted big game in other lands. The contributions of those whose names are so well known in connection with explorations in China and Tibet, and in Africa, have an exceptional interest for men whose use of the rifle has been confined entirely to the North American continent.
During the two years that have elapsed since the appearance of its last volume, the Boone and Crockett Club has not been idle. The activity of its members was largely instrumental in securing at last the passage by Congress of an act to protect the Yellowstone National Park, and to punish crimes and offenses within its borders, though it may be questioned whether even their efforts would have had any result had not the public interest been aroused, and the Congressional conscience pricked, by the wholesale slaughter of buffalo which took place in the Park in March, 1894, as elsewhere detailed by Capt. Anderson and the editors. Besides this, the Club has secured the passage, by the New York Legislature, of an act incorporating the New York Zoölogical Society, and a considerable representation of the Club is found in the list of its officers and managers. Other efforts, made by Boone and Crockett members in behalf of game and forest protection, have been
