RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1902, by G. O. Shields 

 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER page. 



Down Over the Old Buena Vista Trail Came a Lone Horseman Frontispiece 



Tha Mystery of Stirrup Ranch. Illustrated H.N. Beecher 331 



Tex. Poem. Illustrated....: , J. H. Smith 335 



Elk in Wyoming. Illustrated S. N. Leek 337 



De Huntah's Jubilee. Poem Fred W. Goshorn 338 



A Turkey Hunt in New Mexico. Illustrated J. E. Beck 339 



September Poem C. C . H askins 340 



A Turkey Hunt of Long Ago. Illustrated M. B. 341 



Our Hunt at Fence Lake, Mich ..Joe A. Bottkol 343 



Picture Making with the Aid of the Camera Illustrated K. Rowa 345 



Huntsman Come. Poem C . G. Rideout 346 



In the Upper Peninsula. Illustrated A. B. Richmond 347 



Bill Brown's Retriever , Palmer C. Goble, Jr. 351 



Four Surprises at Once Jack Wood 352 



Lost in the Devil's Garden. Illustrated J.E. Tylor 353 



My Balsam Pillow. Poem Meda 357 



To My Pipe. Poem Arnold Townsend 358 



Duck Shooting on Ipswich Bay M.R.Lovett 359 



Heliographing on Mount Adams C. E. Rusk 361 



A West Texas Hunt Hon. H. S.Moran 365 



Deer in Colorado . M. S. Bacon 367 



When My Ship Comes In. Poem A. L. Vermilya 368 



From the Game Fields 369 



Fish and Fishing 373 



Guns and Ammunition 376 



Natural History 386 



The League of American Sportsmen 389 



Forestry 393 



Pure and Impure Foods 395 



Editor's Corner 397 



Amateur Photography 404. 



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