RECREATION 



Copyright May, 1895, by G. O. Shields. 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything that the Name Implies 



$1.00 A Year, 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



11 The Bear Struck Both Horse and Rider." Frontisi 



Big Foot Wallace. (Illustrated.) Hon. B. B. Brooks. 



A Common Foe. (Poem.) Aileen Marie McDonald. 



The House Warming. (Illustrated.) Zelle Emmons. 



Yachting by Moonlight. (Poem. — Illustrated.) Elizabeth A. Vore. 



The Pointer, Past and Present. (Illustrated.) Hon. John S. Wise. 



Habits of Rocky Mountain Game Ira Dodge. 



A Mountain Torrent. (Poem. — Illustrated ) Francis P. Owings. 



A Summer Ramble. (Illustrated.) M. W. Miner. 



A Night on the Seneca. (Illustrated.) Capt. H. P. Bigelow. 



Inconsistency. (Poem.) Geo. L. Thurston. 



Sailing a Bicycle. (Illustrated ) L. E. Hudson. 



Old Izaak, Jr. (Illustrated.) Frank E. Foster. 



The Methow Country. (Illustrated.) Guy Waring. 



Crossing the Plains. (Illustrated.) Gen. John Gibbon, U. S. A. 



Guatemotzin. — The Last of the Aztecs. (Illustrated.) Dr. E. J. Tucker. 



From the Game Fields 38 r. 



Bicycling 382 



Editorial 384 



Publisher's Department 



Possible Smiles 



Amateur Photography.. 



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