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RECREA TION. 



COPYRIGHT 1900, BY GEO. E. HARRISON. 



COW MOOSE IN THE RIVER. 



roars such as I never before heard from a 

 moose. 



"We took some splendid photographs, 

 but got none of game, although at this 

 time we have 5 negatives of interesting 

 specimens of live moose." 



Dr. G. E. Harrison's camp on the Big 

 Fork is a model of order, hygiene and 

 comfort. Not a live tree is cut by him or 

 his men, for by precept and practice he 

 is opposed to wanton destruction of forest 

 or game. I have seen him in North Da- 

 kota strip and swim a slough having a 

 shifting film of ice to retrieve a goose he 

 had shot. Such a feat would be impossi- 



ble to a sportsman bent on spoliation 

 rather than preservation. 



Visitors to his camp recognize as his 

 gospel the words of Pathfinder: "My bul- 

 let is well leathered and carefully driven 

 down for the time of need. The deer never 

 leaped that fell by my hand wantonly." 



I happen to know that those who really 

 want game preserved in the Northwest 

 favor his methods strongly. There are 

 others, who, not able or willing to under- 

 stand his great love of nature, profess to 

 see in his presence some ulterior motive. 

 Others object to him because he is a men- 

 ace to their practice of selling moose meat 

 at 3 cents a pound; and this lawless ele- 

 ment would object to you with equal 

 venom if you spent your summers on the 

 Big Fork. 



I have refrained for a long time from 

 defending Dr. Harrison, knowing you had 

 been furnished the addresses of repu- 

 table gentlemen, who know him as he is 

 in camp and with the gun, and believing 

 you would learn the facts and make 

 amends for the injury done him by the 

 publication of the uncalled-for and un- 

 truthful attacks by Dr. M. P. Austin and 

 K. C. K. Neither pretends he has ever 

 seen Dr. Harrison, much less that he 

 knows him or his habits. 



Much could be said in commendation 

 of Dr. Harrison, but it might seem ful- 

 some praise by me, his brother. I re- 

 spectfully refer you to any mercantile or 

 his home, or to the New York Press Club, 

 of which he is a member. I trust, however, 

 that I am on excusably modest grounds 

 in writing the foregoing. I believe Rec- 

 reation will do what it can to undo the 

 injury which it has unwittingly done Dr. 

 Harrison. 



ARABIAN MATCHLOCK. 

 Octagon barrel 53 inches long, total length 67 inches, caliber .60, peep sights, smooth bore. 



