6 AX ANGLER'S REMINISCENCES. 



appear in the Hallock collection, aggregating a value of Several thousand dollars, 

 which he donated to the Long Island Historical Society, of Brooklyn, in 1883. In 

 1885 Mr. Hallock went out to Alaska and wrote up its resources and commercial 

 possibilities in a work entitled, 'Our New Alaska,' with the subtitle of 'The Seward 

 Purchase Vindicated/ every word of which has proved intelligently prophetic and 

 true. 



"Not to be prolix in review of a most interesting life history, it may be said 

 that four signal achievements' of note accentuate Mr. Hallock's record. First, the 

 Forest and Stream, which has had the effect to elevate the tone and status of sport, 

 to disparage whatever was evil in popular pastimes, and to make the new woman 

 possible. Second, his scheme to secr-u co-operative legislation for the protection 

 of game, and to formulate a code of laws based upon the distribution of species, 

 and uniform, as far as practicable, in their application to areas having the same 

 climate and fauna, success to be accomplished through the agency of an international 

 association for the protection of game, which he organized in 1874. Third, the 

 incorporation of the Blooming Grove Park Association, in 1871, Mr. Hallock being 

 its first secretary, and a most active promoter of the finest existing game preserve on 

 the continent. Fourth, the publication of the 'Sportsmen's Gazetteer,' which gave to 

 the pupils he had trained a passe-partout to health, and a handbook by which they 

 might stalk the continent of North America, and of which the London Field asserted 

 that 'a more complete and comprehensive work had probably never been published 

 by any sportsman,' a gracious tribute bestowed in the face of the fact that its own 

 chief editor, Mr. Walsh ('Stonehenge') had already published in England an 

 'Encyclopedia of Rural Sports,' and other standard sporting books. 



"Briefly, if Mr. Hallock's claim to the gratitude and good will of American 

 sportsmen rested solely upon his labors in behalf of the preservation and propaga- 

 tion of game and fish, he would stand deservedly high in the estimation of those 

 members of the guild who appreciate true sportsmanship, and believe in giving honor 

 to whom honor is due. In line with this thought it should be mentioned that away 

 up in the northwest corner of Minnesota, on the edge of what was once the great 

 Roseau game region, there is a town of 1,200 people bearing his name (Hallock), 

 which is the county seat of Kittson County, the most progressive municipality in the 

 whole Red River Valley. He is the father of this town." 



The American Field, in L888, printed the following, according to Dr. A. J. 

 Woodcock, of Byron, 111. : "Probably there are few sportsmen who are known so 

 widely by name, and so little by direct personal acquaintance, as Mr. Charles 

 Hallock. His books and writings have given him prominence in the field of natural 

 history and sport, and have always been accepted as authoritative in a certain 

 sense, because he speaks only of what he has observed and experienced, not by 

 hearsay." 



Although socially inclined, Mr. Hallock is more apt to be found in some remote 

 and unvisited region than at the trap or butts. He is as nomadic as an Arab. 

 Although interrupted by spasms of business activity and speculative venture, all the 

 aims of his life seem to have been subordinated to a love of perpetual motion. Like 

 the cork leg in the song, he is always wound up and going. 



Born in affluence, with abundant opportunity for travel, Mr. Hallock has 

 extended his wanderings with rod and gun to nearly every geographical division of 

 the continent. Many of his explorations have been by canoe and saddle, in advance 

 of settlement and wagon roads. Since 1880 Mr. Hallock has been occupied to some 

 extent with real estate operations in Minnesota, although his winters are spent in 



