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FOREST AND STREAM 
February, 1921 
Back of the Harper Name 
104 'fears of Good Books 
ZANE GREY’S 
NEW BOOK 
Y ES — he’s done it again ! Zane 
Grey’s' new story will take 
you and hundreds of thousands 
of his other admirers out once 
more into the American West, 
there to watch the unfolding of 
the most fascinating story the 
author has ever written. 
The Mysterious Rider is even 
better than Zane Grey’s last Book 
that outsold all other novels of 
1920. “Great !” that’s what you’ll 
sav when you’ve read it. 
The 
Mysterious 
Rider 
by ZANE GREY 
H E came to the Belllounds 
ranch — the Mysterious Rider 
— no one knew from where; a 
man of middle age, gentle, kindly, 
but so terrible a gun-fighter that 
they called him “Hell Bent” Wade. 
He played the part of fate in all 
their lives, and only when the in- 
evitable tragedy came and the 
Mysterious Rider made the great 
sacrifice, did they know. Then 
out of the shadow of that tragedy, 
Columbine came into the sun- 
shine of love. A novel written 
with that literary charm and 
beauty of which Zane Grey is 
master ; swift-moving, full of the 
glamour of romance and adven- 
ture, and with the breath of 
Western plains and mountains in 
its pages. 
BRED IN THE BONE 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream : 
I N your issue of July, 1920, page 370, 
Rodney Random writes of a Chese- 
peake Bay puppy 9 months old belong- 
ing to Mr. F. E. Richmond, a Canadian 
sportsman, and of the work the puppy 
had done at that age. ‘ 
Last fall my son, who is breeding this 
breed of dogs here, took a pup that was 
3 months and 23 days old, and not even 
yard broken, to retrieve and the photo- 
graph I enclose with this shows the 
business-like way he went about his 
work. It was second nature to him to 
retrieve; the result of many years’ 
training in this breed of dogs. It is 
just as natural for a Chesepeake to re- 
trieve as it is for a pointer or setter 
dog to point a quail. 
This puppy was by Ben Marke, Jr., 
49028, out of Davidson’s Beauty, 42923, 
and is a precocious youngster. 
In regard to gettihg a young dog 
bred for generations back and trained 
for the purpose you want him for, I 
will tell of an instance that brought 
this to my attention more vividly than 
anything else. 
For about fifty years I have been a 
lover of coon hunting and have spent 
hundreds of dollars for coon hounds,- 
buying them all over the United States, 
wherever I could find one to suit me, re- 
gardless of price. Once while on a visit 
to my friend, J. E. Williams, of Selma, 
Tennessee, I expressed my desire to 
own a female hound that had been bred 
from a line of night-hunting dogs. Mr. 
Williams told me that he had a strain 
that had come from David Crockett’s 
own hound, having passed through but 
one family from Crockett’s to his own, 
and that he would some day give me a 
female from this family. 
Mr. Williams did not forget this 
promise and sent me a fine looking 
bitch. When this dog grew up it was 
no trouble to teach her or her offspring 
to tree a coon. When they lost out on 
a trail their first thought was to look 
for the tree which the coon had gone " 
up. They were natural tree dogs. Too 
many men take out pups from fox- 
hound stock expecting them to make 
coon dogs but they fail utterly because 
their parents were used to hunt foxes, 
not coons, and when a dog lost a trail 
he would look on the ground and not up 
in the tree where the coon had gone. 
So remember, if you are looking for a 
pup for hunting purposes seek one 
whose ancestors have been bred and 
trained for the work you want him for. 
A. N. Miller, Kansas. 
THE PROPOSED 
YELLOWSTONE DAM 
(continued from page 59) 
usual control. In this case, and prob- 
ably in this case only, Congress does not 
possess the power of alienation. The 
generally accepted rule that one Con- 
gress may create and a subsequent one 
may alter or modify any prescribed use 
of the public lands, does not apply to 
Yellowstone Park, because the nature 
of its origin precludes the unlimited 
exercise of such a legislative power. 
If a portion of the land and water 
within the park can be made subject to 
private or corporate use, inconsistent 
with the purposes of the grant, and 
this takes the definite form of an ease- 
ment giving such private interests spe- 
cial privileges apart from the public 
at large and in derogation of the 
grant, then such an easement consti- 
tutes, in the eyes of the law, a material 
form of alienation. 
But many years ago Congress lost 
the usual proprietary rights it other- 
wise might have possessed wjre this 
Federal park within the borders of a 
State, Territory, or insular possession. 
The test of its inability to exercise the 
usual rights of alienation is simple. 
At All Bookstores Now 
The men and women of Zane 
Grey’s great audience will need 
no urging to secure their copies 
of The Mysterious Rider. But to 
those who have not yet known 
the pleasure of reading his stories 
of real-men, lovable women and 
the great out of doors we say- 
get your copy right away. It 
means evenings of genuine pleas- 
ure. With colored jacket by 
Frank Tenny Johnson and black 
and white illustrations by Frank 
B. Hoffman. $2.00. 
Harper $ Brothers 
Est. 1817 
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Chesapeake Bay puppy retrieving at the age of 3 months and 23 days 
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