RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1899, by G. O. Shields 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



ti.oo A Year. 



10 Cents a Copy. 



G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



23 West 24TH Street, 



New York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



PAGE 



"I saw a big Polar bear helping himself vigorous ■y." Frontispiece, by Karl Rungius 



A Race with a Polar Bear. Illustrated Capt.S. S. Bodfish 331 



Pishing for Grayling in the Au Sable. Illustrated G. A. Warburton 



Hunting Bear With a .22. Illustrated Dr. A. C. Wheeler 



A Canoe Trip to Okeechobee. Illustrated C. O. Moselev 



Under the Old Beech Trees. Poem. Illustrated Moncure Burke 



Pushing a Muskalonge. Illustrated E. E. Hickok 



The Allard-Pablo Buffalo Held. Illustrated Prof. M.J. Elrod 



To Dash. Poem Boone 



Some Good Heads. Illustrated — 



The Maple Sugar and Syrup Industry. Illustrated John G. Gifford 



HOW Dr. Harrison Hunts. Illustrated W. H. Harrison 



The Pacific Mink. Putorius vison energumenos (Bangs). Illustrated 1 Allan Brooks 



Three Busters from a Blind. Illustrated Herb 



Some New League Members. Illustrated 3 ; 9 



Caught by Accident. Illustrated 3 6 



Camping on the Tongue River J. H. Acer 361 



A Mountain Hunt in Oregon Stanley Herbert 363 



An Appeal for the Buffalo Bill .Hon. W. D.Jenkins 364 



A Hunt in Routt County, Col. Dr. E. W.Wagoner 365 



From the Game Fields 367 



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Fish and Fishing 375 



Guns and Ammunition 378 



Natural History 3 8 4 



The League of American Sportsmen 3 8 9 



Forestry 393 



Pure and Impure Foods 396 



Book Notices 399 



Editor's Corner 400 



Publisher's Notes 401 



Amateur Photography 405 



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



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