GREAT-GAME FIELDS 



see more and more about you in the homes of your 

 wealthy friends. They have attached to them cu- 

 rious stories, and all these represent definitely the 

 swift changes in the sporting world. 



You may mark almost all of North America or 

 at least most of the United States off the map now 

 as big-game country. The best of our best people 

 no longer hunt in the United States. Of course, we 

 still kill a great many deer and a considerable num- 

 ber of elk, once in a while a mountain sheep, and 

 rarely a good bear in one or another part of the 

 United States. To use even these dwindling re- 

 sources in a big-game hunt is rather an expensive 

 business today. We used to figure it at about fifteen 

 dollars a day, average cost for each person, when 

 using a pack train. Today you would better push 

 the cost up to twenty or twenty-five dollars a day 

 for each man of the party. 



A thousand or fifteen hundred dollars for a good 

 head is not thought very expensive by some of our 

 best people who hunt in America, though often 

 more success is bought for less money by those who 

 know the how and where of it. You can take five 

 thousand dollars and go to Africa, or, if you wish 

 to take along a moving-picture outfit which, as we 

 say in Chicago, is quite au fait today you can run 

 the expenses up to thirty-five thousand for a long 



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