xxiv RECREA TION. 



Cruisings in the Cascades 



A NARRATIVE OF 



TRAVEL, EXPLORATION, AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY, 



HUNTING, AND FISHING 



WITH SPECIAL CHAPTERS ON HUNTING THE 



Grizzly Bear, the Buffalo, Elk, Antelope, Rocky Mountain Goat, and Deer ; also on 



Trouting in the Rocky Mountains ; on a Cattle Roundup ; 



Life Among the Cowboys, Etc. 



By G, O. SHIELDS ("COQUINA") 



AUTHOR OF "RUSTLINGS IN THE ROCKIES," "HUNTING IN THE GREAT WEST," "THE BATTLE OF THE 



BIG HOLE," ETC. 



J2mo. 300 Pages. 75 Illustrations. Cloth, $2.00 ; Half Calf, $3.00. 



The learned writer, scientist, and sportsman, Col. W. D. Pickett, better known as 

 " P.," says of this book : "The true lover of nature who delights to occasionally escape 

 from the annoyances and worriments inseparable from so-called civilized life, and to 

 wander amid scenes that tell only of the infinite power, the beneficence, and the grandeur 

 of the Great Ruler ; who delights to worship in the grandest of all His temples — the 

 mountains ; who realizes and feels His presence on every mountain peak, in every dark 

 canyon, in every rushing wind, in every gentle zephyr, and who, amid such scenes, 

 above all realizes his own weakness and littleness ; he it is who will take pleasure in 

 following the author amid some of the grandest and most beautiful scenery on this con- 

 tinent. If, added to this, the reader should be imbued with some of the tastes and sym- 

 pathies of the sportsman, additional zest will be given in the pleasant, graphic, and truthful 

 descriptions of fishing and hunting incidents. The young sportsman who is desirous of 

 hunting large game, will find here many indispensable hints as to their habits and the 

 best methods of pursuing them. This book will meet with universal favor." 



Mr. T. S. Van Dyke, author of "The Still Hunter," and other popular books, says: 

 " It is one of the most entertaining books on field sports yet published. Mr. Shields 

 always has something to say, and says it in a way that makes one see it. He is never 

 dull, and there is an air of truth about his work that fully satisfies the reader." 



Mr. Orin Belknap, known and loved of all sportsmen by his familiar pseudonym 

 " Uncle Fuller," says : " The author of this work has placed the sportsmen of America 

 under lasting obligations by his pleasing descriptions of his adventures in the wilds of 

 these little-known mountains. Any writer who calls the attention of American sportsmen 

 to the wonderful opportunities for legitimate sport — worth a trip across the continent, or 

 a life-time of the tame enjoyment of Eastern sportsmanship — hidden away in the mysteri- 

 ous gorges of the Cascade range, deserves the thanks of each and all who ever shouldered 

 gun or rod. May this book prompt others of America's adventurous lovers of the wilder- 

 ness to more thorough search for the hidden wonders of these mighty hills." 



" Boone," the writer of so many charming reminiscences of days among the hills, 

 says of this book: "To the reader whose calling in life, or whose personal limitations 

 shut him off from the privileges enjoyed by Mr. Shields, there is given in these pages 

 descriptions of scenery so vivid as to enable him to realize the grandeur in nature of the 

 land that gives us birth. There are given him descriptions and traits of animals, in their 

 wild state and in their native haunts, that he may never see save in collections. Let me 

 commend it to all into whose hands this book may come — and they ought to be many — to 

 give it a careful, not a cursory reading. On second, and attentive reading, I was really 

 struck by the accuracy of the author's descriptions of the bison, elk, antelope, grizzly bear, 

 and mountain goat ; and the delineations from his camera make the whole work graphic 

 indeed." 



" Sillalicum," another well-known and popular contributor to the sportsmen's journals, 

 has this to say : " Mr. Shields evidently saw everything that could interest the sports- 

 man, farmer, lumberman, or tourist; and has described the country and its objects of 

 interest in an effective and truthful way, with the eloquence of the artist, and the enthusiasm 

 of the sportsman. No book ever published on Western sports is so delightfully written. 

 A perusal of its pages places the reader among the scenes described, and he imagines 

 himself looking at the rushing schools of salmon ; he hears the murmuring of the moun- 

 tain stream ; the whispering of the alpine zephyr ; and can almost catch the gleam of the 

 mountain lake as it washes the foot of the cragged peak on which roams the white goat." 



