RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1896, by G. O. Shields 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



$1.00 a Year. 



10 Cents a Copy. 



G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



19 West 24TH Street, 



New York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



" He had White's Right Arm in his Capacious Mouth " — Frontispiece. Bert Cassidy 



A Bad Grizzly George W. Kellogg 



The Confessions of Lynx Canadensis. Illustrated W. E. Carlin 



" Oh Mother, Take the Wheel Away " Old Song 



Our Alaskan Exploring Expedition. Up the Stickeen. Illustrated .... .A. J. Stone 



"Pete" Illustrated H. A. Horton 



Record Buffalo Heads. Illustrated W. T. H. 



My Wife's Moose. Illustrated W. E. Bemis 



In the Gaulies. Illustrated D. C. Braden 



A Reminiscence of Buffalo Days. Illustrated Capt. H. Romeyn, U.S.A. 



A Salt Water Breeze. Illustrated George G. Cantwell 



Old Fort Smith Mat. E. R. P. Shurly, U.S.A. 



In the Land of the Shag F.J. Church 



Fishing in the Mountains of Maryland L. L. Litman 



Camped in the Canyon. (Poem) James Hanks 



A Montana Dream. (Poem) John V. Cole 



From the Game Fields . 



Fish and Fishing 



Guns and Ammunition . 



Natural History 



Editor's Corner 



127 Bicycling 



140 Book Notices 



145 Puzzle Corner 



151 Amateur Photography. . . 



156 Publisher's Department, 



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