American Big-Game Hunting 
good fortune for a number of years to spend 
my annual vacation in a country where game 
is so abundant that little effort is needed to 
provide camp with the needed fresh meat. 
Having in years gone by, through force of 
circumstances, acquired a thorough technical 
knowledge of photography, it naturally oc- 
curred to me to attempt the use of the camera 
when there was no need for a rifle. Although 
I had such a knowledge of photography and 
of the habits of the game as had always en- 
abled me to meet with fair success in the use 
of either camera or rifle, I had no adequate 
idea of the difficulties of my undertaking until 
they became real from actual experience. My 
first effort was with a small and excellent 
hand camera, which also served to make 
views of camp scenes and the beautiful 
scenery of the country in which I was hunt- 
ing. I was especially fortunate in that my 
hunting-ground was on some one of the great 
park plateaus of northwestern Colorado. 
These plateaus are indeed the sportsman’s 
paradise. They comprise numerous great 
parks, forests of timber, and lakes ranging in 
size from the tiny pool of brown snow-water 
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