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 (COQUIXA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



19 West 24TH Street, 



New York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



' ' He Threw the Dog about Ten Feet in the Air ' ' Frontispiece Bert Cassidy 



Will a "Dog Bay a Moose? Illustrated Ed. H. Trafton 



1 ■ Too Bad. ' ' (Poem) Yellow Hammer 



A Remarkable Landscape. Illustrated. Seepage 412 Rambler 



A New Species of Mountain Sheep. Illustrated Dr. J. A. Allen 



The Nest of the Brown Thrush. Illustrated Angus Gaines 



The Origin of Negro Minstrelsy. Illustrated Vaughan Kester 



The Army Pack Train Service. Illustrated J. A. Breckons 



Wild Turkey Shooting. Illustrated Capt. C. J. Crane, U. S. A. 



The Prairie Dog at Home. Illustrated Geo. G. Cantwell 



The Sheep Eater Campaign. Illustrated Lt. C. B. Hardin, U. S. A. 



The Sheep Eater Campaign Major T. E. Wilcox, U. S. A. 



4 ' Lil ' Joe. ' ' (Poem). Illustrated Geo. W. Stevens 



Camp Fire Tales J. Loefric 



A Wedding Tour in the Rockies Mrs. Ira. Dodge 



A Day with Quinault Trout F. J. Church 



The Strategy of Two Anglers Gardner C. Teall 



"Whiskers" Jas. Weir, Jr., M. D. 



' ' Recreation ' ' (Poem) Sam. Level Crofoot 



A Quail Hunt in the Indian Territory Levi Luigo 



From the Game Fields 



Fish and Fishing 



Guns and Ammunition 



Natural History 



Editor's Corner 



465 Bicycling 



468 Amateur Photography 



472 Publisher's Department.. 



476 Puzzle Page 



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



Hon. Thomas Marshall 



Mayor of Keithsbttrg, 111. 

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March 24, 1897 



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