Literature of American Big-Game Hunting 
There have been a few excellent books written 
by Americans upon the wilderness life and the 
wilderness game of this continent. Elliott’s “South 
Carolina Field Sports” is a very interesting and 
entirely trustworthy record of the sporting side of 
existence on the old Southern plantations, and not 
only commemorates how the planters hunted bear, 
deer, fox, and wildcat in the cane-brakes, but also 
gives a unique description of harpooning the devil- 
fish in the warm Southern waters. General Marcy 
wrote several volumes upon life on the plains be- 
fore the civil war, and in them devoted one or 
two chapters to different kinds of plains game. 
The best book upon the plains country, however, is 
Colonel Richard Irving Dodge’s “ Hunting Grounds 
of the Great West,” which deals with the chase of 
most kinds of plains game proper. 
Judge Caton, in his ‘‘ Antelope and Deer of 
America,” gave a full account of not only the 
habits and appearance, but the methods of chase 
and life histories of the prongbuck, and of all the 
different kinds of deer found in the United States. 
Dr. Allen, in his superb memoir on the bisons of 
America, and Hornaday, in his book upon the 
extermination of that species, have rendered similar 
service for the vast herds of shaggy-maned wild 
cattle which have vanished with such singular and 
melancholy rapidity during the lifetime of the 
present generation. Mr. Van Dyke’s “Still-Hunter” 
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