RECREATION 



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



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



$1.00 a Year. G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 19 West 24TH Street, 



10 Cents a Copy. Editor and Manager. New York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER Page 



A Running Bucker. Frontispiece Frederic Remington 



The Wolf that Got Away. Illustrated Lieut. E. L. Munson, U. S. A. 171 



' • The next instant, the hound went whirling down " Ernest Seton Thompson 172 



On Educating the Horse. Illustrated Dr. J. C Hennessy 174 



Some Deer, a Bear and a Moose. Illustrated W. H. Wright 178 



Hunting with a Camera, IV. Illustrated W. E. Carlin 182 



Northern Sharp-Tail Grouse. Illustrated John Boyd 184 



A Night's Bass Fishing F. L. Davis 185 



?uail in Winter A. Jessup 187 



he Bear Story our Visitor Told E. L. Kellogg 188 



Wild Turkeys in the Sunk Lands John W. Prather 189 



An Elk Hunt J. B. Jennett (Old Silver Tip) 190 



God's Language. Poem Edward G. Allanson 191 



The Alaska Peninsula L. L. Bales 192 



The Biped Swine. Poem S. B. M'Manus 193 



A Car-Load of Ducks J. B. A. 194 



He Got the Coon Adella Washer 195 



Our First Load of Meat E. P. Jaques 195 



The Associated Pirates, II E. V. Keyser 197 



In Mexico Ed. Williams 198 



A Coon and Some Yams Elliot C Brown 200 



Climbing Mountains on Wheels Lincoln M. Miller 200 



A Canoe Cruise In Northern Minnesota S. B. Buckmaster, M.D. 202 



International Items F. L. Oswald 203 



An Exciting Bear Hunt A. Plummer 205 



From the Game Fields 206 



Fish and Fishing 217 



Guns and Ammunition 226 



Natural History 230 



The League of American Sportsmen 233 



Editor's Corner 236 



Entered as Second-Class Matter at New York Post-Office, Oct. 17, 1894 



Canoeing 238 



Bicycling 241 



Publisher's Department 242 



Book Notices 246 



Amateur Photography 248 



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