Photographing Wild Game 



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The Hunter's Victim 

 Mortally wounded before a snow storm, it was never found by the hunter 



merely lived within a Dakota ranch, with 

 his hand on the branding iron and his 

 mind upon the cash value of each season's 

 round-up, that his nature would have 

 been the same? Self-reliance, quickness 

 of purpose and of action, and a broad 

 view of man as Nature's noblest creation 

 seldom come to one who forms but an 

 insignificant atom in a conventional as- 

 sembly of mankind. While, therefore, it 

 becomes my part to point out an addi- 

 tional and perhaps wholly superior 

 method of enjoyment for the wilderness 

 hunter, 1 can but protest against any cru- 

 sade which by maligning the sportsman 

 may prejudice him against the camera, 

 or, what is even worse, lead him to give 



up his yearly visits to Nature's realms, 

 wherein lies the inspiration for a better 

 and stronger life within the city's walls. 



Many years had elapsed before the ad- 

 vent of the hand camera made game 

 photography at all practicable, but within 

 two seasons, after my experiments with 

 it, the full possibilities began to be most 

 apparent. It may, therefore, be of in- 

 terest in this connection to reprint a few 

 extracts from the first article ever pub- 

 lished advocating the use of the camera 

 in the field of sportsmanship :* 



"A sportsman's life consists largely of 

 three elements — anticipation, realization, 

 and reminiscence. We look forward to 



*Forest and stream, 1892. 



