INTRODUCTORY NOTE 



The seven heads of large game figured in this book 

 are faithfully copied from the originals, shot by myself, 

 and now in my possession ; the proportions have been 

 verified with the camera. 



The other engravings and etchings are for the most 

 part based on photographs of scenery, costumes, etc., 

 taken by myself while in the West, and are accurate rep- 

 resentations of Western landscapes, as also of ranch life 

 and hunting on the plains. 



Most, although by no means all, of my hunting has 

 been done on the Little Missouri River, in the neighbor- 

 hood of my two ranches, the Elkhorn and Chimney 

 Butte ; the nearest town being the little hamlet of 

 Medora so named, I may mention for the benefit of 

 the future local historian, in honor of the wife of the 

 Marquis de Mores, one of the first stockmen to come 



to the place. 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 



CHIMNEY BUTTE RANCH, 

 MEDORA, DAKOTA, 

 May, 1885. 



