ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter.
London: Longmans, Green & Co , 1905.
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"There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons": First Edition of Theodore Roosevelt's Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
First British edition of Roosevelt's important collection of first-hand hunting accounts, including a lengthy description of newly created wilderness reserves. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, front panel blocked in gilt with a design of Roosevelt on horseback jumping a fence, frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt with tissue guard present, illustrated with black and white photographs. In very good condition. A bright example.
"Like Audubon, William Elliott and Judge Caton, Roosevelt liked to chase deer with horses and hounds: ‘To be able to ride through woods and over rough country at full speed, rifle or shotgun in hand, and then to leap off and shoot at a running object is to show that one has the qualities which made the cavalry of Forrest so formidable in the Civil War.’ This volume also contains an excellent chapter on ‘Books on Big Game’ in which Roosevelt reveals his admiration for two other giants among deer hunters: Judge Caton and T.S. Van Dyke" (Wegner, 234).
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter.
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