RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1902, 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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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER page 



It Became a Free-for-All Fight •• . .Frontispiece 



A Bear Fight in the Yellowstone Park. Illustrated Dan Beard 85 



A Lullaby of the Sound. Poem Mrs. Jean Le Munyon 87 



Bearding a Grizzly in His Den-. — A. L. Duhig 89 



Mr. Potter's Ovis Canadensis Stanley Mayall 94 



In the Arkansas Mountains John T. Bailey ioi 



Some Place West of Kansas. Poem Minnie J. Reynolds 10a 



A Birchwood Fire. Poem James R. Edlin 103 



A Cushion Shot on Swartz Creek C. A. Harmon 104 



Outwitting a Mink Frank Farner 105 



Lost in a Tamarack Swamp. Illustrated ... W. A. Mason 106 



At a Rifleman s Fireside. Illustrated W. H. Nelson 108 



A Florida Kid on a Camp Hunt. VII Charley Apopka no 



My First Adventure with a Buffalo C. B. R., M.D. 112 



My Lig Trout Senex 113 



From the Game Fields 115 



Fishand Fishing 125 



Guns and Ammunition 129 



Natural History 137 



The League of American Sportsmen 141 



Forestry .] — 145 



Pure and Impure Foods — 147 



Publisher's Notes 149 



Editor's Corner 151 



Amateur Photography 157 



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



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