RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1896, by G. O. Shields 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



$1.00 a Year. 



10 Cents a Copy. 



G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor atid Manager. 



19 West 24TH Street, 



New York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



Page 

 1 * When he recovered he saw the grizzly and the cayuse engaged in a desperate fight " Frontispiece 



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 92 

 96 



A Three Cornered Fight with a Grizzly. Illustrated W. M. Jackson 



On Reelfoot Lake H. M. Brown 



Fishing on the Nishnabatona W. H. H. 



By the Lake. Poem Walter M. Hazeltine 



The Pacific Coast Cougar. Illustrated J. M. Baltimore 



George. Illustrated Jane Marlin 



A Goat Hunt in the Bitter Root Mountains. Illustrated A. L. A. Himmelwright 



Elk and Bear in the Olympics... W. E. Humphrey 



Audubon Galled Back. Illustrated W. T. Hornaday 



Her Brother. Poem L. Taylor 



Men Behind the Guns. Poem W. H. Nelson 



Our Contributors _ , 



Uncle Jeem's Annual Hunt. Illustrated ...Geo. Henderson, M.D. 



A Game for Two. Poem Estelle Foreman 



Stoney Lake. Poem * Archer 



Indians Beaten at Their Own Game H. H. Sauber 



Narcissus. Poem S. A. Warner 



Condensed Rations for Soldiers and Sportsmen Old Timer 



A Pretty Pair. Poem Richard Perry 



From the Game Fields 116 



Fish and Fishing ... 127 



Guns and Ammunition 132 



Natural History 137 



The League of American Sportsmen 142 



Canoeing I45 



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



Bicycling 



Editor's Corner 



Book Notices 



Publisher's Department 

 Amateur Photography . . . 



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