RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1899, by G. O. Shields 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



$1.00 A Year. 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



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New York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



"I Killed 17 of Them." Frontispiece, by Chas. B. Hudson 



The Major's Curlew Yarn. Illustrated.. .• J.E.Allen 



The Mackenzie; its Flora, Fauna and People, illustrated A.J. Stone 



Grandaddy's Subscription. Poem H.J. Watts 



Hunting the White Sheep in Alaska. Illustrated Tho -. H. Rogers 



Pacific Wildcat, Lynx Fasciatus. Illustrated Allan Erooks 



The Eiver. Poem. Illustrated J.T. Hopkins 



Mission Mountain", Montana. Illustrated Prof. M.J. Elfod 



In the Camps Of Croesus. Illustrated Gene S. Porter 



Cruise of a Kodaker. Illustrated Paul Ward 



Some Feathered Fiiends. illustrated 



The Canvasback Duck, Aythya Vallisneria . Illustrated Allan Brooks 



The Man Behind the Kodak. Illustrated Al Macnab 



A Snow-Bound Moose. Illustrated F. O. Walker 



A Delayed Shot A.D. H. 



Let Vb Save the Birds. Speech of Hon. John F. Lacey in the House of Representatives 33 



Parks for Forest Preservation Chas. Christadoro 36 



The Hunter Hunted J.J. Bush 



The Real Thing M. P. Dunham 



The League Did It 



From the Game Fields 



Fish and Fishing 47 1 Pure and Impure Foods 70 



Guns and Ammunition > Book Notices 72 



Natural History 57 



The League of American Sportsmen 61 



Forestry 68 



Editor's Corner 73 



Publisher's Notes xxxii 



Amateur Photography 77 



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



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