152 FOREST AND STREAM. [Jan. 27, 1906. 
AL BY JURY! 
At the Portland (Oregon) Exposition, 1905, The Peters Cartridge Company made an exhibit of its goods, 
including Empty and Loaded Paper Shells, Metallic Cartridges for Rifle, Revolver and Pistol, Gun Wads, 
etc. The Jurymen who judged the exhibit were experts and acknowledged to be thoroughly competent to 
pass upon the merits of ammunition and firearms. They granted to the Peters Cartridge Company a 
GOLD MEDAL=—HIGHEST AWARD 
This decision was reached after a canvass of past records made with Peters Ammunition; a minute examin- 
ation and an exhaustive test of the goods themselves. Coming thus near the close of a year marked by 
grand achievements, the Portland award furnishes new and convincing proof of the superior shooting 
qualities and unsurpassed finish of XZ \g \g \g \g \g ood \g 4 \g 
Peters Shells and Cartridges 
MY SIXTY YEARS ON THE PLAINS 
Sixty-three years ago “Bill’ Hamilton, then hunting, and all the many and varied incidents of were simple and direct, and in which there was 
twenty years of age, set out from St. Louis, Mo., the trapper’s life. It is full of adventure and ex- no striving for effect. 
with seven other free trappers under the leader- citement, but the story is told modestly, and It is illustrated by a portrait of the author 
ship of old “Bill” Williams. Seven of these there is nothing in it that is lurid. Amid much and one of the celebrated Chief Washaki, and 
eight men are dead, but Hamilton still lives in fighting, there is nothing that can be called by six drawings of old-time trapper and Indian 
Montana and still sets his traps. He has written “blood and thunder,” but there is much that is life, by Mr. Charles M. Russell, the celebrated 
the story of his early trapping days, and the book history. cowboy artist of Great Falls, Mont. 
has just been published. “My Sixty Years on the The book has all the charm of the old volumes 223 pages, cloth, illustrated. Price, $1.50. 
Plains” tells of trapping, trading, Indian fighting, telling of early travel in the West; books which FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO., NEW YORK. 
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