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KEEPING POSTED 
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communicate with us. 
2. Many of our readers have used 
this department to advantage. 
3. We were not able to get a job 
for a chauffeur who wanted to go 
south for the winter—but we 
may be able to, at that, before the 
snow begins to fly. 
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| or scarfpins— 
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MY SIXTY YEARS ON 
THE PLAINS 
True Pictures of a Vanished Life 
“BILL" HAMILTON 
Appropriately enough W. T. Hamilton, the 
last survivor of the old race of free trappers, 
became the author of one of the best pen pic¬ 
tures of the old life of the plains and moun¬ 
tains ever written. 
No work of fiction offers more adventure, 
more thrills of desperate bravery, heroic en¬ 
durance and hair breadth escape than this un¬ 
adorned narrative of the life of the old trap¬ 
per and plainsman, the companion of Bill 
Williams, Jim Baker, Carson, Bridges and the 
rest whose names are household words. 
“Sixty Years on the Plains” is all that the 
name signifies and more. It depicts every phase 
of frontier life, hunting, trapping, Indian fight¬ 
ing, the beginnings of Empire building. From 
the store house of sixty years of wonderfully 
full exprience, Mr. Hamilton drew the material 
for a book of splendid interest and real value. 
Cloth, Illustrated. 
Postpaid, $1.50 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
WILDFOWL SHOOTING. 
Containing Scientific and Practical Descriptions of 
Wildfowl; Their Resorts, Habits, Flights, and the Most 
Successful Method of Hunting Them. Treating of the 
selection of guns for wildfowl shooting, how to load, aim 
and to use them; decoys and the proper manner of 
using them; blinds, how and where to construct them; 
boats, how to use and build them scientifically; re¬ 
trievers, their characteristics, how to select and train 
them. By William Bruce Leffingwell. Illustrated. 373 
pages. Price, in cloth, $1.50; half morocco, $2.50. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Moose Hunting and Salmon Fishing, 
and other sketches of sport. Being the record of per¬ 
sonal experiences of hunting game in Canada. By T. R. 
Patillo. 300 pages. Price, $2.00. ^ 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
The QUALITY steel rod. Guaranteed three years. They 
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Chambers St. (Dspt. F. 8.), New York. 
Sam Lovel’s Camps. 
A Sequel to “Uncle Lisha’s Shop.” By Rowland Z. 
Robinson. Cloth. Price, $1.00. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
By the way—the concerns adver¬ 
tising in Forest and Stream 
are paying good money to do it. 
Almost every issue we carry the 
ad. of some new article. It will 
pay you to read the advertising 
pages carefully. 
INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, 
FOREST AND STREAM, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
Uncle Lisha's Shop. 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. 
Robinson. Cloth. 187 pages. Price, $1.25. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
”*8gs, 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.” 
THE ANGLER’S WORKSHOP 
Rodmaking for Beginners 
By PERRY D. FRAZER 
A UNIQUE work, bringing the science of rodmaking up to the very moment and 
epitomizing the knowledge and experience of experts for' the guidance of the 
average man. The evolution of bait-casting principles has made Mr. Frazer’s 
book supersede all previous publications on the subject. 
Every angler—young or old—who is fond of adapting his rods and tackle to his own 
ideas of what they should be, will find in this book a large fund of information gathered 
by the author in years of study, experiment and practical experience in fishing, tourna¬ 
ment casting and at the work bench. He theorizes and speculates not at all. He tells 
“the how” of everything connected with rodmaking in a way that makes results certain. 
All explanations are simple and easily followed. 
Separate chapters are devoted to each of a half dozen types of bait-casting rods; to 
tarpon, surf and light salt water rods; bass and trout, salmon and tournament fly-rods. 
Complete specifications of well-known types are given, and the chapter on split bamboo 
rodmaking is the most comprehensive treatise on the subject ever published. Indis¬ 
pensable in the angler’s library. 
Cloth, 180 pages, four full-page illustrations, 6o working drawings, making plain 
every feature of the text. Postpaid, $i.oo. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO., 127 Franklin St., New York 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
