

HAS NEVER been my good fortune to see as interesting a ^collection of game pictures as those 

 that have been taken by Mr. -and Mrs. Wallihan, and ,.I am equally pleased with the simplicity 

 with which they tell, their most interesting 'Stories J of the /way in which they got these photographs. 

 The book,, when published, will be absolutely? unique ; arid ...will, be of the utmost value. The 

 picture of : the bunch of deer watering at the } spring ipoql in showy weather gives an idea such as 

 no written- description could of the way black-'tails'-look, as they' come down to drink in a band. 

 Then the pictures of the two -startled bucks just '.about' to .jump off, and of the buck and the doe, 



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the doe still unconscious and. .the cbuck. looking 'suspiciously, in .the direction in which the camera 

 is, are just as good "in their... way. t* So .with the antelope pictures. The alertness of the queer 

 prong-horned beasts is '.caught; to.- perfection, nas> 'well as. the difference in their attitudes when 

 compared with the' attitudes of. deer.' Knowing.asrl-do by long experience the extreme difficulty 

 of getting so much- as a shot: with. the riftc-at;. either wdlf or. cougar,- 1 cannot; express my astonishment at 

 seeing these remarkable and characteris.tie&phptographs of both. .The. cougar in the tree has a special and 

 peculiar value, showing "as^ it -does; the 'way. , the: beast stands. 3 The: twblf slouching over the hill is so 

 characteristic that I seem.to" see him '.iitrthe -flesh as I look- at' 'the "picture. *: So it is with the bull elk 

 standing in the snow among; the ; gage brush', with.tHe, head, of "the > black-tail doe swirnming through the 

 icy water, and with the bands of cow -elk' and -of 'antelope'. ' Indeed;- so it is with all these pictures, while, 

 as I said above, the vividness, simplicity and truthfulness with which Mr. and Mrs. Wallihan have told 

 their stories add greatly to their value. It is a credit to Colorado and a credit to the United States that 

 a book of this kind should be produced. 



