Roosevelt, Theodore; Grinnell, George Bird [editors]. American Big-Game Hunting: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club. New-York: Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 1893. First Edition. [11228]
Maroon cloth decorated in silver, standing buffalo on backstrip, buffalo head to front with some wear to center, light wear, slight discoloration to portions of the binding, 8 1/2 x 6 inches. 1893 signature of F. D. Hoyt on ffep & title page. Complete with all 16 b/w plates. The text is clean. 345 pages. Good. Hardcover.
Some plates are by A. B. Frost (1851-1928), whom some have called "the greatest American sporting artist." Others are by Ernest E. Thompson. Some are from photographs.
A collection of 13 hunting articles originally published in Scribner's Magazine and in Forest and Stream. These include A Buffalo Story, by George S. Anderson; The White Goat and his Country, by Owen Wister; A Day with the Elk, by Winthrop Chanler; Big Game in the Rockies, by Archibald Rogers; Coursing the Prongbuck, by Theodore Roosevelt; After Wapiti in Wyoming, by F. C. Crocker; In Buffalo Days, by George Bird Grinnell; Nights with the Grizzlies, by W. D. Pickett; The Yellowstone Park as a Game Reservation, by Arnold Hague.
There is also a bibliography of American Big-Game Hunting, and articles about the Boone and Crockett Club.
