GAME NOTES. 



SHOOTING PICTURES. 



A Wyoming cowboy, who had been exam- 

 ining some illustrations made by several 

 prominent artists wrote to a friend in the 

 East : 



" It you want horses and cattle, get Rem- 

 ington ; but if you want people and trees 

 get Frost." 



He might have added several other 

 things in which Frost excels. For in- 

 stance, birds, and dogs, and duck marshes, 

 and corn fields, and wheat fields, and autumn 

 skies, and shooting scenes in general. That 

 A. B. Frost is the master of all these is shown 

 in his series of " Shooting Pictures," now be- 

 ing issued by Charles Scribner's Sons, New 

 York. Mr. Frost has been at work on this 

 series for several years and the end is not 

 yet. I asked him some time ago to make 

 some drawings for Recreation, but he said : 



"I couldn't possibly do it in less than a 

 year and a half, for I have all I can do, in that 

 time, to finish my set of shooting pictures ; 

 and I must finish those before undertaking 

 anything else." 



The list of subjects includes the following : 



Rail Shooting, Summer Woodcock, . 



Fall Woodcock, Prairie Chickens, 



English Snipe, Quail Shooting, 



Bay Snipe, Ducks from a Blind, 



Rabbits, Ruffed Grouse, * 



Ducks from a Battery,Quail — A Dead Stand. 



Each plate is mounted on heavy card- 

 board, 19x26 inches, so that it may be framed 

 at once if desired. 



They are painted in water colors, and 

 have been reproduced with such care and 

 faithfulness that you can almost hear the 

 whistle of the birds' wings ; the rattle of the 

 dry reeds, as the dogs wade through them ; 

 the ripple of the water on the boat's sides, 

 as the autumn breeze stirs it up, and the 

 " tick," " tack," of the prairie chickens' wings, 

 on the cornstalks, as they break from cover 

 and dart away to the open prairie. No art- 

 ist was ever more happy in the choice of a 

 series of themes than Frost has been in this 

 instance. The great variety of subjects, the 

 varying moods of forest, field, marsh and 

 water ; the quaint old guides; the many types 

 of shooters' dress ; the different breeds and 

 strains of dogs ; the many species of game 

 birds portrayed, have given him scope for the 

 exercise of all his genius in drawing and 

 coloring. And he has not failed in a single 

 instance. Every figure, every sky, every 

 tree, every leaf, every weed, every bird, 

 every feather is simply perfect. 



As showing the infinite care with which 

 Frost works, it is said that he spent a whole 

 month drawing in and coloring the sky, in 

 one picture, and then threw it away and be- 

 gan anew. He never slights his work, even 

 in the smallest detail. These shooting pic- 

 tures are simply beyond criticism. 



Mr. C. D. Lanier writes the accompanying 

 text which is also illustrated by Mr. Frost 

 with a series of delightful pen-and-ink draw- 

 ings. Mr. Lanier and Mr. Frost are both 

 enthusiastic sportsmen. They are students 

 and lovers of nature and no better combina- 

 tion could have been made for the produc- 

 tion of such a work as this. 



It is published in six parts, each with two 

 plates and accompanying text. The price 

 of each part is $2.50— of the set $15.00. 



It has long been a mystery to me that so 

 many sportsmen — especially wealthy sports- 

 men — should give so little attention to the 

 collection of the higher art and literature of 

 the chase. I have met many such who had 

 never seen or heard of Bradlee Whidden's 

 "Sport 5 "of the CenturyCompany's "Sport with 

 Rod and Gun," or of several other fine works 

 on field sports. This new series, being put out 

 by Scribner's Sons, is one of the richest treats 

 of all and I trust will have such a sale as it 

 deserves. Every reader of Recreation 

 should write them at once for a descriptive 

 circular and tell them where he saw the work 

 described. Then he should buy a set of it. 

 If so, he will be proud of it ever after. 



Editor Recreation: 



Once, while a companion and I were 

 riding along a wagon road, in Big Horn 

 basin, east of here, I happened to see the 

 track of a large grizzly, at the side of the 

 road, and, from the appearance of the track, 

 he seemed to have been running, having dug 

 his long claws deep in the ground ; so we got 

 off to investigate. Tracking him a short 

 distance, we found where there had been a 

 fierce struggle and something had been 

 dragged away. We trailed it a good mile 

 till we reached the foot of a mountain, where 

 we found a full-grown cow dead and partially 

 eaten. Her head was crushed as if by a 

 blow. Old Ephraim had caught the cow out 

 on the open ground ; had killed and dragged 

 her a mile, had eaten what he wanted, and 

 was probably watching the carcass from 

 somewhere on the mountain side above. 



S. N. Leek, Marysvale, Wyo. 



Hon. B. F. Caldwell and his son John H., 

 of Chatham; A. L. Ide, of Springfield, and 

 A. B. Watts, of Farmingdale, 111., recently 

 returned from a hunting trip in Wyoming. 

 They killed elk, deer, antelope, grouse and 

 ducks, and caught all the trout they wanted. 



Quail and ducks bid fair to be plenty 

 fall in northwestern Nebraska. 



A. N. Sheffner, M. D. 



this 



Walsrode is one of the best smokeless 

 powders in the market. Be sure your shells 

 are loaded with it— -then you will return well 

 laden with game. 



