RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1899, 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 and Manager. 



23 West 24TH Street, 



New York 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



PAGB 



Her* They Came as if Shot Out of One of the Oregon's Big Guns Frontispiece, by A. B. Frost 



Long on Grizzlies. Illustrated George B. McClellan 413 



Up Against a Giant Grizzly. Illustrated Hon. T. C. Koch. 



The Attraction at Parlin's. Illustrated H. N. Beecher. 



A Modest Bag Comanche Joe. 



The Fall Migrations. Poem Mary Drummond. 



Beaver in Colorado. Illustrated Dr. W. H. Bergtold. 



His First and Second Coons W. H. Nelson. 



In Winter Quarters. Poem Hilton R. Greer. 



An Arctic Christmas A. J. Stone. 



A Good Night for Snipe Charles R. Jones. 



A Conversion. Poem Lyman H. North. 



The Willing Guest. Illustrated J. T. Hopkins. 



The Home of the Mule Deer R. G. Dill. 



Fishing in the Olympics. Illustrated Byron Phelps. 



Bill's Watch O. Von Engeln. 



From the Game Fields 443 



Fishand Fishing 478 



Guns and Ammunition 483 



Natural History 489 



The League of American Sportsmen 494 



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 504 



Forestry 



Pure and Impure Foods 



Editor's Corner 506 



Amateur Photography 5°9 



Publisher's Notes xxxiv 



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



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