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 24.TH Street, 



New York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



" He bounded up, with me on his back, and away he went like the wind." Frontis- 

 piece. Ernest S. Thompson. 



A Caribou Ride Geo. Gillard 



Hunting with a Camera, II. Illustrated W. E. Carlin 



My Catch. (Poem) Lynn Tew Sprague 



Shooting Sea Lions. Illustrated Edward W. Wild 



A Letter from Mr. Wood Duck. Illustrated John Boyd 



A New England Trout Preserve. Illustrated H. W. 



Crater Lake. Illustrated Prof. B. W. Evermann 



Cruising on Puget Sound Geo. G. Cantwell 



A Ferox Trout. (Poem) Geo. H . Gorman 



The Grounds for a Great " Zoo." Illustrated W. T. Hornaday 



The Upper Mistassini. Illustrated W. F. J. M'Cormick 



Elkland, V. Illustrated Ernest S. Thompson 



The Chief Cook. (Poem) W. H. Nelson 



The Voice of the Turtle. Illustrated B. J. R. 



The Doctor's Buffalo Hunt Capt. J. H. Sands, U. S. A. 



The Wolf Question J. B. Jennett, H. M. Brown, and Others 



A League of American Sportsmen, Gov. W. A. Richards, J. E. Pratt, and Others 



From the Game Fields . 



Fish and Fishing 



Guns and Ammunition . 



Natural History 



Editor's Corner 



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Publisher's Department. 



Bicycling 



Canoeing 



Book Notices 



Amateur Photography. . 



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