CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



DINTS TO SPORTSMEN. 



Hints to Sportsmen. Best Game Regions of the United States. Pro- 

 fusion of Animal Life. Advantages of the Far West as a Hunting- 

 ground. Best Quarters. Inconveniences of Farm-houses for Large 

 Parties. Character of Guides. Resent all Assumption of Superiority 

 on Account of Title or Wealth. Anecdote of their Independence of 

 Character. Action and Reaction. How to select Guides. The Best 

 Animals for Hunting Expeditions. Tents to be used. How and when 

 to pitch them. General Instructions about Camp Life. What Foods 

 and Medicines to use. Bedding ayd Clothing. Stoves. Fires, and 

 how to build them. How to make a Fire without Matches. Lamps. 

 Best Clothing for Hunting. Treatment of Boots. How to prevent 

 the Feet from Blistering. Moccasins and Slippers. Rubber Goods. 

 Under-clothing. An Antidote for Fever and Ague. How to prevent 

 the Insect Plague. Picketing Horses. Necessity of Vigilance. How 

 Sentinels should be Posted. How to detect the Approach of Objects. 



Weapons should be Convenient. Thieves. Best Fire-arms. Bul- 

 lets. Breech -loading Shot-guns for Forest Shooting. Woodcraft. 

 hn:-t in the Forest. Necessity of Observation. Value of a Compass. 

 How to track or trail Animals in Flight. How to procure Water. 

 Telling the Weight, Size, and Movements of Animals by their Tracks. 



of a Field-glass. Qualities of a Successful Hunter. Charac- 

 t-ristics of Best Nimrods. Difference between Field and Target 

 Shooting Page 17 



CHAPTER II. 



THE GRIZZLY BEAU. 



The Grizzly Hear. Its Haunts, Habits, Size, and General Cha- 



Fear of the- Human Voice. Its great Strength and Courage. Fiirht 

 between a Hear and Buffaloes. The most KH'ective Means of killing 

 it. Anecdotes of Men killed and wounded by it. Hest Weapons for 

 stalking it. Is i-aid not to touch a Man if lie pretends to be Dead. 

 lv\aiiiple>. How three Indians captured One. Great Warriors and 

 Gri/./lies. Value of Claws. Judge Blank brings a Live Gri/./.ly into 

 Camp in a New Way. (Jri/./ly Hill. Two Indians treed. Subsequent 

 Death of One. A New Mode of killing a Grizzly in the West. Its 



