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RECREA TION. 



In '83 he first began to be known as a 

 naturalist, by a series of papers on the zool- 

 ogy of Manitoba. These were eventually 

 published in book form — " The Birds of 

 Manitoba," and " The Mammals of Mani- 

 toba," and resulted in his being appointed 

 government naturalist to that Province. 



Then he went to London, where he con- 

 tinued his studies in art. Later he returned 

 to New York, where he has since made his 

 home. Ay, his home; but he don't live 

 here. He only stays. He spends as much 

 of his time as possible in the Rockies, and 

 his soul is always there. 



His fondness for Nature is indicated in 

 his answer to a question as to how he be- 

 came a painter: 



Hon. W. A. RTCHARDS, 



THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT. 



" I never care to paint when I am in the 

 woods or on the plains, among animals; 

 there I am content to study them; but 

 when I return to cities, where animals are 

 not, I must paint them. I must be among 

 them and working with them, in some 

 way." 



Who, then, could be more heartily en rap- 

 port with the aims of the L. A. S.? He is 

 with it heart and soul. That is why he was 

 chosen as one of its vice-presidents. 



Hon. W. A. Richards is a representative 

 western man. He was born in 1849, in the 

 Southwest corner of Wisconsin, on the 

 banks of the Mississippi river. His educa- 

 tion was obtained in the district school, 

 during such portion of the time as he could 

 be spared from the farm. 



When 20 years old he went West, stop- 

 ping first in Omaha. There he joined a gov- 

 ernment surveying party and went to Cali- 



fornia. In '81 he returned to Colorado, and 

 in '85 to Wyoming, where he entered a tract 

 of desert land, and applied his knowledge of 

 engineering, coupled with a great deal of 

 hard work, to its irrigation and reclamation. 

 He made of his desert claim a fine farm, 

 where he now has a comfortable ranch 

 home, surrounded by mountains which af- 

 ford good hunting and with a trout stream 

 running through his door yard. 



President Harrison made Richards Uni- 

 ted State Surveyor General for Wyoming, 

 which position he held 4 years, with such 

 satisfaction to the people that in '94 he was 

 unanimously nominated for Governor, by 

 the Republicans, and elected by the largest 

 vote ever given to a Governor in that State. 



He has always been an ardent sportsman. 

 On the plains of Nebraska he hunted the 

 buffalo, the elk, the deer and the antelope, 

 and was occasionally hunted by Indians. 



In the mountains of the Central Western 

 States he has hunted the silver tip and the 

 black bear, the mountain lion, moose, deer, 

 and mountain sheep; while on the Pacific 

 coast he had grand sport with the grizzly 

 bear and the mule deer. He knows the 

 value of every trout stream in all the coun- 

 try through which he has passed. 



In his present position his official duties 

 do not prevent him from occasionally in- 

 dulging in his favorite recreation. His 

 hunting stories are narrations of actual ex- 

 periences, dealing with his own observa- 

 tions, are confined strictly to facts, and are 

 always interesting. Some of his best stories 

 have been published in Recreation, and 

 others are in store for future numbers. 



W. T. Hornaday is so well known to all 

 readers of Recreation — and this means all 

 Sportsmen and Naturalists worth men- 

 tioning — that I need say little of him here. 

 With his name on the official roll of the 

 League, no man can for a moment doubt 

 its good intentions or its ultimate success. 



He has achieved genuine success as a 

 collecting naturalist, a taxidermist, a 

 founder of zoological gardens, and an au- 

 thor. As a traveler, he has penetrated the 

 jungles of Venezuela and British Guiana, 

 even unto the "disputed territory"; has 

 hobnobbed in Cuba with both Spaniards 

 and Cuban prisoners, during the insurrec- 

 tion of 1875; has studied both art and 

 science in the galleries, museums, and zoo- 

 logical gardens of Europe, and for 3 years 

 he associated with wild men and wild beasts 

 in the jungles of India, Ceylon, the Malay 

 Peninsula, and Borneo. 



It was his acquaintance with the wild- 

 mannered head-hunters of Borneo that led 

 to " The Man Who Became a Savage." His 

 first book, a bulky narrative of travel and 

 adventure in the East Indies, entitled " Two 

 Years in the Jungle," was a pronounced 

 success, and is now in the sixth edition. 

 For years, Mr. Hornaday was a sort of staff 



