IJTTBODUCTORY AND EXPLANATORY. 



The following condensed summary of the plan, of the guide book will indicate 

 its usefulness to the sportsman: 



9th. Names of nearest hotels, with 

 charges. 



10th. When guidts own bird dogs or 

 hounds, the fact is stated. 



llth. Character of the grounds open 

 or wooded, rocky or hilly, wet or dry. 



1st Location of grounds. 



2d. How they are reached. 



3d. Name of grounds and distance 

 from nearest station of transportation 

 route. 



4th. Varieties of game found. 



6th. Most numerous varieties. 



12th. The charges (if any) made by 

 owners of land for privilege of shooting 

 or hunting 



13th. Character of the sport. 



6th. Best months for shooting and 

 hunting. 



7th. Livery charges. 

 8th. Charges of guides. 



About three thousand shooting and hunting grounds more or less accessible to 

 field sportmen are located herein, a large number being tabulated from personal 

 letters from gentlemen living and hunting on the grounds named. Care has been 

 taken to make these reports accurate and none have been admitted that do not 

 show good shooting at the points named. 



The alphabetical headings of the text (pages 15 to 207), indicate the stations of 

 transportation companies. The method of finding in this volume the description 

 of a particular locality had in view by the sportsman may be illustrated thus: On 

 page 182 will be found FORT HOWARD (C. & N. W.), and by referring to the "Index 

 to Abbreviationss " on pp. 7--14, the initial letters "C. & N. W.," will be 

 found to designate the Chicago and Northwestern Bailway, and that Mr. E. P. Wil- 

 son, Chicago, 111., is the General Passenger Agent of said railway, to whom all 

 letters of inquiry as to trains, cost of transportation etc., via his road, should be 

 addressed. About two hundred transportation companies are designated in this 

 manner. 



The Game Laws of the States and Territories and those of Canada have been 

 designedly omitted. The frequent and often absurd and conflicting changes made 

 in these laws render auy compilation published in an annual work of this 

 character misleading rather than instructive. Many transportation companies, 

 upon the routes of which good shooting and fishing grounds are located, issue 

 condensed game laws of their respective sections and States, and a letter ad- 

 dressed to any of the officers named in the index (pp. 7 to 14) will secure a pamph- 

 let copy of the laws desired. 



THE SPORTSMAN'S GUIDE is designed as a companion volume to THE ANGLER'S 

 GUIDE the GUN and the ROD and if it meets with a modicum of the welcome ex- 

 tended to the latter. I will be amply repaid for the labor expended upon it. 



WILLIAM C. HARBIS. 



