RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1901, by G. O. Shields 

 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



$1.00 A Year. G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 23 West 24TH Street, 



10 Cents a Copy. Editor and Manager. New Vork_ 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



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Each Trailing- Our Fiery Serpent of Hemp, and Both Feeling- It Was Likely to Be Our Last Bide 



Dan Smith Frontispiece. 



Fighting a Prairie Fire. Illustrated Ramsay Macnaughton 167 



Hunting the Bighorn in British Columbia. Illustrated Stanley Washburn 169 



Through Colorado Canyons Dr. J. E. Miller 171 



With the Leading Ouananiche. Illustrated J. L. Mott. 3d 173 



That Boy. Poem. Illustrated Lewis A. Brown e 175 



Jerry Poland and the Grizzly Rev. Francis Hope 177 



The GOod Chap. Poem Theodore Roberts 177 



The Master and Tenny. Illustrated J. L. Tucker, Jr. 179 



Quiz: A Kangaroo Rat. Illustrated H.A.Thompson 183 



Bears that Chmh T. B. Crapo 185 



A National Game Preserve in Alaska W. T. Hornaday 188 



March. Poem A. L. Vermilya 190 



The Olympics and Their Elk. Illustrated F. A. Johnson 191 



Fishing at "Cayugy Bridge." Poem .. .. ... G. A. Warburton 194 



Congress Has Full Power Hon. John F. Lacey and Hon. P.C.Knox 197 



Therredicaments of a Poet. Poem Charles N. Douglas 203 



From the Game Fields 204 



Fish and Fishing , 211 



Guns and Ammunition 214 



Natural History 221 



The League of American Sportsmen 228 



Forestry , 232 



Pure and Impure Foods 235 



BookNotices 2 37 



Editor's Corner 238 



Publisher's Notes xxxi 



Amateur Photography 2 4* 



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



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