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FOREST AND STREAM 
[July 15, 1911. 
JOIN ME AT THE GUN CLUB 
THE LOVE OF A GUN 
Born in every manly man finds its ideal expression in the sport of 
TRAPSHOOTING 
A FASCINATING, HEALTHFUL, ALL YEAR ROUND SPORT 
It develops quick, accurate judgment, poise, confidence— 
A clear eye and steady nerves. 
The swiftly moving clay target, thrown from a trap at an 
unknown angle, closely parallels the actual flight of a bird. 
The trapshooter enjoys all the pleasurable excitement of 
hunting with none of its attendant discomforts and heavy 
expenses. 
Join your local Gun Club. If there’s none nearby— 
START A GUN CLUB-WE WILL HELP 
Our free Gun Club Organization Booklet No. 3 tells all 
about it. Write us for a copy. 
E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS POWDER COMPANY 
ESTABLISHED 1802 
Wilmington, Del. 
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Edited by GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL 
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An invaluable work not alone for the sportsman, but for the student and lover 
of wild life. Treats of big game preservation and protection in the broader sense; 
tells of the habits, habitat and life history of the larger wild animals; touches upon 
the problem of the public forest domain, and is rounded out by interesting hunting 
reminiscences by such leaders in the fraternity of big-game hunters as Madison 
Grant, Paul J. Dashiell, George Bird Grinnell, Jas. H. Kidder and W. Lord Smith. 
Bound in cloth, library edition, heavy paper, richly illustrated, 497 pages. 
Postpaid, $2.50 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO., 127 Franklin Street, NEW YORK CITY 
which make especially good reading for all Eng¬ 
lish-speaking residents of North America. 
Few citizens of the United States know that 
long before Lewis and Clark crossed the conti¬ 
nent, this feat had been performed in Canada, 
and not only this, but that Mackenzie had made 
his extraordinary journey down the river which 
bears his name, to the frozen ocean and back 
again, and in a single season. 
The men of to-day, living in an age of new 
inventions and of constant surprises and expan¬ 
sion, pay too little heed to the things of the 
past, and do not greatly concern themselves as 
to who contributed to the progress which we now 
enjoy. But it is worth while now and then to 
pause and ask ourselves who did the early work 
which made possible the conditions of the pres¬ 
ent day, and to try to realize how those pioneers 
lived—and what they thought—who ventured out 
in their wilderness and faced the hardships of 
a country which was new in a sense hardly to 
be comprehended by any man of to-day. 
While the stories of these pathfinders were 
told by the men who led expeditions, yet run¬ 
ning all through the accounts is a figure, often 
unnamed, which stands out perhaps boldest and 
most heroic of all. This was the trapper—the 
coureur des bois —he who did the first work in 
subduing the wilderness and who laid the foun¬ 
dations on which its present civilization and pros¬ 
perity is built. 
Some of the illustrations of this volume pos¬ 
sess a peculiar interest. There are several por¬ 
traits, a number of excellent drawings and— 
fascinating as pictures of old times—reproduc¬ 
tions from Carver, Kendall, the Commerce of 
the Prairie, Bartlett, Long and Franchere. Be¬ 
sides these there is a map of North America 
showing the routes of Flenry, Carver, Pike, 
Lewis and Clark and others. 
The book is good reading for young and old, 
and is especially to be recommended to fathers 
to put into the hands of their boys. It is a 
mingling of history and romance which is fasci¬ 
nating. 
FIarper’s Camping and Scouting, an outdoor 
guide for American boys. Consulting editors 
George Bird Grinned and Dr. Eugene L. 
Swan. Cloth, illustrated, 505 pages, price, 
$ 1 . 75 . Harper & Brothers. 
This useful volume might almost as well have 
been called an outdoor guide for American boys 
and girls, since girls are by no means neglected. 
It contains a capital chapter on camping for 
girls, while almost everything in the book is 
really just as applicable to girls as to boys. The 
volume deals with camping in a practical com- 
monsense way and is full of useful information. 
Its purpose is to encourage outdoor life—out¬ 
door life with an object—and this after all is 
only another way of saying to encourage health 
and self reliance. 
There are parts devoted to camping close to 
one's home, and camping further afield, to fish¬ 
ing and fishing tackle, and to fly-fishing and wild¬ 
erness camping. The organized camps which of 
late years have been so popu’ar are discussed 
by Dr. Eugene L. Swan, one of the most com¬ 
petent authorities on the subject. He tells the 
boys how to conduct a camp, how to use a canoe, 
how to tramp and how to care for one’s fellows 
in case of illness or accident. 
The Boy Scout Movement is thoroughly well 
