American Big-Game Hunting: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club

by Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell

Overview

"The Boone and Crocket Club is organized primarily to promote manly sport with the rifle among the large game of the wilderness, to encourage travel and exploration in little-known regions of our country, and to work for game and forest preservation by the State." --Theodore Roosevelt & George Bird Grinnell, American Big-Game Hunting

American Big-Game Hunting--The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club (1893), edited by Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell, is a collection of essays about hunting and outdoors adventures from various authors, such as "Nights with the Grizzlies," by Colonel W.D. Picket; "The Yellowstone Park as a Game Reservation," by Arnold Hague; and "In Buffalo Days," by George Grinnell.

This collection was released as part of a series of books by the Boone and Crocket Club, a club founded by Teddy Roosevelt with George Grinnell in 1887 for the preservation of large game animals and their habitats in the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646791927
Publisher:	Cosimo Classics
Publication date:	05/01/2020
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

THEODORE ROOSEVELT (1858-1919) was an American statesman, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States, from 1901 to 1909. He wrote about frontier life for national magazines and in his books-Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, and The Wilderness Hunter.

GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL (1849-1938), was an influential American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Dedicated to the restoration of America's wildlands, he became a conservationist and student of Native American Life. Grinnell wrote many books, of which his best known are The Fighting Cheyennes, The Cheyenne Indians, and When Buffalo Ran.