INTRODUCTION 



ferred to as "the last big-game hunting ground 

 of North America." Can it be true that this 

 claim, or feeling, constituted Mr. McGuire's 

 reason for going over 300 miles from salt water to 

 look for big game? Where are the giant moose, 

 the Kenai caribou and the white sheep of the 

 Kenai Peninsula? Where are the moose that 

 were so big and so abundant in the Susitna val- 

 ley only twenty years ago? Where are the white 

 sheep of the Matinuska, common enough for all 

 purposes in 1900 and after? 



But let us not say that those hunting grounds 

 are one and all "shot out," or forever closed to 

 the sportsman. Not until we are compelled, do 

 we admit the state of "no game." Let us believe 

 that the lure of the McGuire party was the really 

 magnificent wide-horned breed of white sheep 

 that is found, in numbers really worth while, in 

 the White River country. We will not soon for- 

 get our astonishment when we first saw a collec- 

 tion of five wide-horned sheep heads from that 

 region. We are glad that Mr. McGuire's party 

 obtained fine specimens of that very interesting 

 development of Ovis dalli. 



I find Mr. McGuire's story and pictures more 

 interesting than any mere moving-picture trav- 

 els. His graphic and conscientious pen gives us 

 the action, and his pictures furnish the local 

 color so dear to the heart of the reader. Jaded 

 indeed must be the mind that cannot turn from 

 the worries and the care of the daily business 



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