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Alternative Title
Hunting in the great West: hunting and fishing by mountain and stream.
Alternative Title
Hunting and fishing by mountain and stream.
Description
Recounts the author's hunting trips through the Rockies, the Big Horn Mountains, Montana, Florida (p. 171-241), the Lake Superior region and northern Michigan.
Table of Contents
Rustlings in the Rockies -- The party organized -- On the way to Wyoming -- Meditations in a wiciup -- A perilous experience -- In the Big Horn Mountains -- In the Yellowstone Valley -- At the forks of the Rosebud -- The happy hunting ground -- Through the canyon of the Little Big Horn -- A grand day's sport -- A busy day -- From Custer to Keough -- Ten days in Montana -- Life on the plains -- After the buffaloes -- Two hundred thousand buffaloes -- Through an extinct hell! -- The Gulf Coast of Florida -- The Gulf of Mexico -- Snead's Island -- On board the "Sky-Lark" -- Deer-stalking and fire-fishing -- Four days on the Myakka River -- Words of advice to tourists to Florida -- Recollections of boyhood -- The days of long ago -- Trouting on the Namecagon -- Pike and bass fishing on Long Lake -- The Lake Superior region -- Autumn ramblings in northern Michigan -- The Island of Mackinac -- A narrow escape.
Notes
Copy is missing the frontispiece illustration.
Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : State University System of Florida, PALMM Project, 2003. (Florida heritage collection) Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software; Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files. Electronically digitized by the University of Central Florida from a book held in the Main Library at the University of Central Florida, Orlando.
Subject
Hunting -- West (U.S.); Hunting -- Florida; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Rocky Mountains; Bighorn Mountains (Wyo. and Mont.); Montana -- Description and travel; Florida -- Description and travel; Michigan -- Description and travel; Economics and Society: Post-Civil War Florida, 1865-1913 -- Business, Agriculture, and Tourism, 1878-1897; Description and travel
City
Chicago, Ill.
Publisher
Donohue, Henneberry and Co.
Extent
306 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Format
application/pdf
Digital Reproduction Specifications
Jpeg2000 images were derived from no less than 400 dpi tiff images
Identifier
CF00001624 (IID), ucf:14756 (fedora)
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Recommended Citation
Shields, G. O. (George O.), 1846-1925, "Rustlings in the Rockies Chapters 1-18." (1890). Florida Heritage. 52.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/floridaheritage/52