Theodore Roosevelt 



this reason his books of hunting and adventure 

 have a real value a worth not shared by many 

 of those published on similar subjects. His hunt- 

 ing adventures have not been mere pleasure excur- 

 sions. They have been of service to science. On 

 one of his hunts, perhaps his earliest trip after 

 white goats, he secured a second specimen of a 

 certain tiny shrew, of which, up to that time, only 

 the type was known. Much more recently, during 

 a declared hunting trip in Colorado, he collected 

 the best series of skins of the American panther, 

 with the measurements taken in the flesh, that has 

 ever been gathered from one locality by a single 

 individual. 



Mr. Roosevelt's hunting experiences have been 

 so wide as to have covered almost every species of 

 North American big game found within the tem- 

 perate zone. Except such Arctic forms as the 

 white and the Alaska bears, and the muskox, there 

 is, perhaps, no species of North American game 

 that he has not killed; and his chapter on the 

 mountain sheep, in his book, "Ranch Life and the 

 Hunting Trail," is confessedly the best published 

 account of that species. 



During the years that Mr. Roosevelt was 

 actually engaged in the cattle business in North 

 Dakota, his everyday life led him constantly to 



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