RECREATION. 



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



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything that the Name Implies 



!i.oo A Year, 



10 Cents A Copy. 



G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



216 William Strhet, 



New York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



" Finishing his Rush with a Leap in the Air." Frontispiece. 



T routing on the Gunnison. (Illustrated ) F. D. Sanford. 



Mystery. (Illustrated.) Hamilton Vreeland, M. D. 



Crossing the Plains in '61. (Illustrated.) Maj. W. H. Schieffelin. 



The Exile's Wail. (Poem.) Henry Hawthorne. 



Yachting. (Illustrated.) R. E. Ueane. 



Our National Bird. (Illustrated.) Arthur F. Rice. 



My Motto. (Poem.) Capt. Jack Crawford. 



Twin Lights. (Poem. — Illustrated ) D. B. Keeler. 



A Novel Fox Hunt. (Illustrated.) C. D. Butler. 



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



June Time. (Poem.) W. M. Hazeltine. 



Wild Broncos in the Cavalry Margaret Gray Brooks. 



Three Thousand Elk Nelson Yarn ail. 



Fixed Amunition Capt. Philip Reade, U. S. A. 



Loafin' Round with Jim Wm. M. Hundley. 



Mallard Shooting in the Rockies G. M. Dillard. 



Game Protection A. C. Collins. 



From the Game Fields 431 Possible Smiles 



Bicycling 432 



Editorial 433 



Amateur Photography 



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