The Boone and Crockett Club 



The Club is organized primarily to pro- 

 mote manly sport with the rifle among the 

 large game of the wilderness, to encourage 

 travel and exploration in little-known regions 

 of our country, and to work for game and 

 forest preservation by the State. Attention 

 has been paid to all three points by the Club, 

 but especially to sport and protection. Nev- 

 ertheless exploration has not been neglected. 

 In a trip after wilderness game the hunter is 

 perforce obliged to traverse and explore little- 

 known regions, at least when he is in search 

 of the rarer animals, , or is desirous of 

 reaching the best hunting-grounds ; and in 

 addition to such exploration, which is merely 

 incidental to the ordinary hunting trip, mem- 

 bers of the Club have done not a little ori- 

 ginal exploration for its own sake, including 

 surveying, and geographical and geological 

 map-making. The results of these explora- 

 tions, when sufficiently noteworthy, have 

 appeared in periodicals devoted to such 

 subjects, or in Government reports. The 



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