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 pagb 



Yellow Wolf . . . tried to dash into the post at the head of a dozen followers.. Frontispiece 



With the Best Intentions. Illustrated F.M.Bernard 167 



A Girl's Life in the Rockies Myrtis B. Butler 180 



A New Hampshire Coon Hunt • E H. Hunter 183 



A Coon Hunt in Pennsylvania Chas. H. Weaver 185 



It Might Have Been. Poem Edward Bourne 185 



Ned Buntline's Raquette River Bass J. F. Closson 186 



A Glimpse of the Old Kentucky Home. Poem. Illustrated Grayson Jemison 187 



A Florida Kid on a Camp Hunt Charley Apopka 188 



Among the Pronghorns. Illustrated B. R. Beymer 191 



A Camping Trip in Argentina L. S. McCain 192 



Merrimac Bait Catching Geo. L. Whitmore 193 



From the Game Fields 197 



Fish and Fishing 205 



Guns and Ammunition 209 



Natural History 215 



The League of American Sportsmen 219 



Forestry 223 



Pure and Impure Foods 225 



Book Notioes 228 



Publisher's Notes 229 



Editor's Corner 233 



Amateur Photography 238 



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



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