REC REATION 



Copyright, December, 1901, by G. O. Shields 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



$1.00 a Year. 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



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New York 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 

 Standing on an Old Fine Log, One Foot in the Trap, He Glared at Me — Frontispiece 



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Trapping a Mountain Lion. Illustrated Chas. A. Friedel 3 



Wild Goat Shooting on the Desertas Lawrence Mott 7 



On the Nez Perces Trail. Illustrated Westley Jones 7 



Looks Like Rain. Poem Tidd Murray ii 



The Mystery of a Bullet • • Charles W. Sawyer 13 



Cole. Illustrated C. E. Pleas 16 



A Deer Hunt in Lost Park H. J. L. Barnes 19 



Twenty-one Grizzlies in Sight W.H.Wright 2 



My Battle With a Great Horned Owl F. G. E. Buerger 23 



A Memory. Poem Edith M. Church 24 



How the Quails Were Preserved David Bruce 25 



The Lesser Scaup. Illustrated Allan Brooks 26 



Song of the Robin. Poem jr. Rev. R. S. Stringfellow 27 



An Ideal Vacation •• C.H.Dillon 29 



The Things I Love- Poem W.S.Jones 29 



A Mountain Sheep in Domestication. Illustrated. Mowry Bates 31 



To Improve the Service in Yellowstone Paik E. V. Wilcox 36 



Sheriff McFee's Big Bass Poem C . C . H ask ins 38 



39 Forestry 62 



45 Pure and Impure Foods 64 



49 Publisher's Notes 66 



54 Editor's Corner 69 



58 Amateur Photography 75 



From the Game Fields. 



Fish and Fishing 



Guns and Ammunition 



Natural History 



The League of American Sportsmen 



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



Elephant killed by Mr. Marcel Hendricks of Mossamedes, Africa, with a .303 Savage Rifle using the; Expanding Bullet. " Le Sport Universel 

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