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Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains: Presidential Edition (Classic Reprint)
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains Presidential Edition - Classic Reprint Author:Theodore Roosevelt CHAPTER 1. — RANCHING IN THE BAD LANDS. — HE great middle plains of the — United States, parts of which — are still scantily peopled by men — of Mexican parentage, while — other parts have been but recently — won From the warlike tribes of Horse — Indians, now form a broad pastoral — belt, stretching in a north and south line — from British America to the... more » Rio Grande.
Throughout this great belt of grazing land almost the
only industry is stock-raising, which is here engaged in on
a really gigantic scale ; and it is already nearly covered
with the ranches of the stockmen, except on those isolated
tracts (often themselves of great extent) from which the
red men look hopelessly and sullenly out upon their old
hunting-grounds, now roamed over by the countless herds
of long-horned cattle.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; CHAPTER I RANCHINC IN THE BAD LANDS; The northern cattle plains-Stock-raising-Cowboys, their dress and characters My ranches in the Bad Lands of the Little Missouri-lodoor amusements- Books-Pack-rats-Birds-Ranch life-The round-up-Indians-Ephemeral nature of ranch life-Foes of the stockmen-Wolves, their ravages-Fighting with dogs-Cougar-My brother kills one-One killed by blood-hounds-The chase one of the chief pleasures of ranch life-Hunters and cowboys- Weapons-Dress-Hunting-horses-Target-shooting and game-shooting; CHAPTER II WATER-K OWL; Stalking wild geese with rifle-Another goose killed in early morning-Snow goose shot with rifle from beaver meadow-Description of plains beaver-lis rapid extinction-Ducks-Not plenty on cattle plains-Teal-Duck-shooting in course of wagoii trip to eastward-Mallards and wild geese in cornfields- Eagle and Jacks-Curlews-Noisiness and curiosity-Grass plover-Skunks ; CHAPTER III THE GROUSE OF THE NORTHERN CATTLE PLAINS; Rifl« less