Big-Game Shooting in Alaska 



I. 

 BEAR HUNTING ON KADIAK ISLAND 



Early in April, 1900, 1 made my first journey to 

 Alaska for the purpose of searching out for myself 

 the best big-game shooting grounds which were to 

 be found in that territory. Few people who have 

 not traveled in that country have any Idea of its 

 vastness. Away from the beaten paths, much of 

 its 700,000 square miles is practically unknown, 

 except to the wandering prospector and the Indian 

 hunter. Therefore, since I could obtain but little 

 definite information as to just where to go for the 

 best shooting, I determined to make the primary 

 object of my journey to locate the big-game dis- 

 tricts of southern and western Alaska. 



My first two months were spent in the country 

 adjacent to Fort Wrangell. Here one may expect 

 to find black bear, brown bear, goats, and on 

 almost all of the islands along the coast great num- 

 bers of the small Sitka deer, while grizzlies may 



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