July 20, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
67 
THE OUTDOOR LIBRARY 
Seasonable books dealing with every phase of life 
in the Open. Handbooks of sport. Books that 
make “roughing it easy.” Books for Fisherman, 
Hunter, Yachtsman, Canoeist, Camper, Nature 
Lover. Books of Travel and Adventure for 
Young and Old. 
DOGS OF THE YUKON. 
Dogs in Alaska are of all breeds and sizes, 
the most common being the malamute or native 
dog, says a writer in the Wide World Magazine. 
The word “malamute” is an Indian word mean¬ 
ing Eskimo and is applied to both dogs and 
natives. The malamute is of the wolf strain—in 
fact, the best of the breed are half wolf. They 
evince all the characteristics of the wolf, both 
in appearance and in manners. 
Owing to his wolflike fur, the malamute 
can easily stand the extreme Alaskan cold. He 
is a born fighter, an inveterate thief and some¬ 
what of a coward, for he will seldom fight singly 
against a lone adversary. The malamute, while 
well able to withstand the cold, does not seem 
to have the same order of intelligence as is 
displayed by the outside dog, and the best dog 
for Alaska would seem to be a mixture of the 
two strains. 
Another native breed in the North is the 
huskie, but this breed is rarer than common 
usage of the word would imply. The real 
huskies are bred in the neighborhood of the 
Mackenzie River, and are more common in the 
territory under the jurisdiction of the Hudson’s 
Bay Company than in Alaska. 
Small dogs, such as fox terriers, are a 
rarity in Alaska, for in that country a dog is 
valuable in exact proportion to the amount he 
can pull. A sleigh dog will weigh anything 
from thirty to 150 pounds, the average being 
about seventy-five pounds. 
Dogs in Alaska, when on the trail, are fed 
once a day, after the day’s work is done. They 
are never fed in the morning, for if they were 
they would be lazy all day, or what is more 
probable, would vomit up their breakfast soon 
after they got on the trail. Dogs, to work well, 
must be well fed. 
They get a variety of foods, including rice, 
tallow, corn meal and fish. If rice or corn meal 
forms a part of their food it must be cooked. 
Some men prefer to feed their dogs on bacon 
or fish, thus doing away with cooking. 
The Yukon sled, while not a thing of 
beauty, is built to stand all kinds of hard wear. 
The sled is about eight feet long, is made of 
any kind of hard wood, lies close to the ground, 
costs from ten to fourteen dollars, and makes 
a trail sixteen inches in width. Another pattern 
is known as the basket sleigh, and is to the 
Yukon sleigh what a three-masted schooner is 
to a coal barge. In length it is from eight to 
fifteen feet, is made of birch, oak, or hickory, 
cuts a trail twenty-two inches in width, costs 
from $40 to $200, is raised a foot or more from 
the runners, and, in the best examples, is lashed 
together with rawhide. 
The basket sleigh, as its name implies, is 
fitted with a basket, into which the load is 
placed, and from the back of the basket a pair 
of handles project, to be used in guiding the 
sled on the trail. In very cold weather wooden 
runners are best, but in ordinary circumstances 
steel or brass runners are used. 
THE CRADLE OF THE NEW YORK Y. C. 
Shortly after the Revolution, says W. P. 
Dodge in the July Strand, Colonel Stevens pur¬ 
chased Hoboken, which was then an island of 
swamps and rocky hills, and established the 
family on Castle Point, a beautiful promontory 
overlooking the Hudson and New York City. 
John C. Stevens, the father of American yacht¬ 
ing, was born there in 1785. There were no 
ferries in those days, and the Stevens boys of 
necessity became expert boatmen. At fourteen 
John C. owned a sailboat of twenty feet length, 
named Diver. As the years passed by he had 
the schooner Gimcrack built for him by William 
Capes, in Hoboken. This boat is one of the 
most historic craft of American yachting, since 
she was the cradle of the New York Y. C., the 
organization being accomplished in her cabin 
on July 30, 1844, the year in which so many of 
the world’s greatest achievements occurred. On 
that day John C. Stevens called a meeting of 
yachtsmen, which assembled aboard the Gim¬ 
crack, anchored off the Battery, New York city, 
and here the constitution of the New York Y. 
C. was drawn up. 
Uncle Lisha’s Shop. 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. Rob¬ 
inson. Cloth. 187 pages. Price, $1.25. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
Peggs, bootmaker and repairer, was a sort of sportsman’s 
exchange, where, as one of the fraternity expressed it, 
the hunters and fishermen of the widely scattered neigh¬ 
borhood used to meet of evenings and dull outdoor days, 
“to swap lies.” 
Hunting Without a Gun. 
And other papers. By Rowland E. Robinson. With 
illustrations from drawings by Rachael Robinson. 
Price, $2.00 
This collection of papers on different themes con¬ 
tributed to Forest and Stream and other publications 
and now for the first time brought together. 
Forest Runes. 
Poems by George W. Sears (“Nessmuk”). With arto- 
type portraits and autobiographical sketch of the author. 
Cloth, 208 pages. Price, $1.50. 
American Big Game Hunting. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club: Editors: 
Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell. Illus¬ 
trated. Cloth, 315 pages. Price, $2.50. 
Trail and Camp-Fire. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club. Editors: 
George Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt. 
Illustrated. Cloth, 353 pages. Price, $2.50. 
Like its predecessors, the present volume is devoted 
chiefly to the great game and outdoor life of Northern 
America; yet it does not confine itself to any one land, 
though it is first of all a book about America, its game 
and its people. 
American Big Game in Its Haunts. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club for 1904. 
George Bird Grinnell, Editor. 490 pages and 46 
full-page illustrations. Price, $2.50. 
This is the fourth and by far the largest and hand¬ 
somest of the Club’s books. It opens with a sketch of 
Theodore Roosevelt, founder of the Boone and Crockett 
Club, and contains an extremely interesting article from 
his pen descriptive of his visit to the Yellowstone Park 
in 1903. Other papers are on North American Big 
Game; Hunting in Alaska; The Kadiac Bear; Moose; 
Mountain Sheep; Game Refuges, and other big-game 
topics. 
My Friend the Partridge. 
By S. T. Hammond. Cloth, 150 pages. Postpaid, $1.00. 
An inimitable study of the noblest of our game birds, 
following the ruffed grouse deep into his haunts, de¬ 
tailing the experiences of more than 60 years in the 
field, and throwing much light on the habits, life history 
and habitat of the game. A most delightful reminder 
of happy days with upland game. 
Inter-Ocean Hunting Tales. 
By Edgar F. Randolph. Cloth, 200 pages. Postpaid, $1.00. 
A collection of stories such as are told about the 
camp-fire. Mr. Randolph offers a hunting experience 
bounded only by the two oceans, replete with incident, 
interesting from its novel viewpoint, and dealing with 
every kind of game that falls to the rifle of the American 
sportsman. 
The Spaniel and Its Training. 
By F. H. F. Mercer. To which are added the American 
and English Spaniel Standards. Cloth. Illustrated. 
Price, $1.00. 
Men I Have Fished With. 
Sketches of character and incident with rod and gun 
from childhood to manhood; from the killing of little 
fishes and birds to a buffalo hunt. By Fred Mather. 
Illustrated. Price, $1.50. 
Training the Hunting Dog for the Field and 
Field Trials. 
By B. Waters. Cloth, 281 pages. Price, $1.50. 
This is the latest and best manual on the subject. As 
an owner and handler of field trial dogs, and one having 
had an exceptionally wide experience in the field and at 
field trials, Mr. Waters was admirably equipped to write 
such a work. It has already taken its place as the 
standard authority. 
American Duck Shooting. 
By George Bird Grinnell. Cloth, 630 pages. With 58 
portraits of North American Swans, Geese and Ducks, 
Plans of Boats and Batteries. Fifty Vignettes in the 
text and a chart of the topography of a duck’s plumage. 
Price, $3.50. 
My Sixty Years on the Plains, Trapping, 
Trading and Indian Fighting. 
By W. T. Hamilton (“Bill” Hamilton). With 8 full- 
page illustrations by Chas. M. Russell. New York. 
Cloth. 233 pages. Price, $1.50. 
Manual of Taxidermy for Amateurs. 
A complete guide in collecting and preserving birds 
and animals. By C. J. Maynard. Illustrated. New 
edition. Price, $1.00. 
Rhymes of the Stream and Forest. 
By Frank Merton Buckland. Cloth. Heavy laid paper. 
Sumptuously bound. Postpaid, $1.25. 
A charming collection of verse by an author who 
knows and loves nature well. A particularly pleasing 
gift for fishermen, closely simulating in form and orna¬ 
mentation the standard fly-book. 
Woodcraft. 
By Nessmuk. Cloth, 200 pages. Illustrated. Postpaid, 
$ 1 . 00 . 
No better book was ever written for the help and 
guidance of those who go into the woods for sport and 
recreation. It is simple and practical, and withal a 
classic, written with a rare and quaint charm. 
Houseboats and Houseboating. 
By Albert Bradlee Hunt. The book contains forty 
specially prepared articles by owners and designers of 
well-known house-boats, and is beautifully illustrated with 
nearly 200 line and half-tone reproductions of plans and 
exteriors and interiors. A most interesting chapter is 
devoted to houseboating in England. Extra heavy paper, 
buckram. The price is $3.00 net. Postage, 34 cents. 
Some Native Birds for Little Folks. 
By Dr. W. Van Fleet. Illustrated by Howard H. 
Darnell. Cloth. 146 pages, with 14 photogravure 
plates. Price, $1.00. 
Describes the wood duck, the great horned owl, ruffed 
grouse, killdeer, plover, bobolink, bluejay, chickadee, cedar 
bird, meadow lark, robin, woodcock, kingfisher, crossbill, 
and nuthatches. 
The Anglers’ Workshop. Rod Making for 
Beginners. 
By Perry D. Frazer. Cloth, 180 pages. Four full-page 
illustrations, 60 working drawings. Postpaid, $1.00. 
A complete, simple and thoroughly up-to-date work 
for the guidance of the amateur rod maker, carrying him 
from first principles through all phases of successful rod 
making. There is no theorizing or speculation. All 
terms are simple, and all kinds of rods and woods are 
treated of. 
Modern Fishculture in Fresh and Salt Water. 
By Fred Mather, author of “Men I have Fished With,” 
with a chapter on Whitefish Culture by Hon. Herschel 
Whitaker, and a chapter on the Pike-Perch by James 
Nevin. Illustrated. Price, $2.00. 
My Angling Friends. 
A Second Series of “Men I Have Fished With.” By 
Fred Mather. Cloth, 369 pages, with 13 illustrations. 
Price $1.50. 
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