GREAT-GAME FIELDS 



Texas, for instance, was once a wonderful game 

 state; it had buffaloes, antelopes, bears, lions and 

 deer. Today you may say it has deer. 



Closer to the north, and yet less known, there 

 lay until within ten or fifteen years ago what I 

 believe to have been the most typical wilderness of 

 the United States the so-called Delta country of 

 Mississippi. In this dense canebrake and hardwood 

 region there was a country, fifty miles across, where, 

 when I knew it, there was not a house. It was full 

 of black bears, deer, turkeys, and panthers. Today 

 the railroads crisscross it. Its black soil is raising 

 crops. The old bear packs are now scattered. It is 

 an agricultural region today and game is but an 

 incident there. On one hunt there we once killed ten 

 black bears in eight days. If you got one now you 

 would be lucky. 



Still, we have left the tracked and tabulated wil- 

 derness of Maine, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin 

 and Minnesota that pinewood country which lies 

 along the south edge of the Great Lakes waterway. 

 This is rather old settled country and, in some part, 

 it has learned the lesson of game supply. 



Perhaps you did not know that Connecticut is 

 one of the best deer countries in America because 

 deer are protected there. Vermont was once shot 

 out, but a few years ago that little state turned out 



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