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The Happy Hunting-Grounds

Chapter 2: Illustrations
By Kermit Roosevelt
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A series of hunting and exploration narratives recounts expeditions across deserts, African savannas, North American forests and South American wilds. Episodic chapters combine practical fieldcraft and vivid accounts of tracking, camp life and encounters with game with personal reminiscences of family outings and the habits of companions and guides. Photographs and sketches punctuate scenes of long marches, makeshift camps, and local customs. Reflections on endurance, resourcefulness and the social dynamics of life in remote places weave the episodes into a cohesive portrayal of outdoor pursuit and its effects on character.

Illustrations

Arab sheikhs who had ridden in, camel-back, from the desert to pay their respects Frontispiece
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Sir Alfred Pease’s sketch of our first giraffe hunt 24
Father and R. H. Munro Ferguson at the Elkhorn Ranch, after the return from a successful hunting trip 34
Facsimile of a picture letter by father 38
Putting the tape on a tusker 42
Launching a newly made dugout on the Dúvida 44
A relic of the Portuguese occupation; an old well beside the trail 56
The Death Dance of the Wa Nyika children in memory of the chieftain’s little son 58
Across the bay from Mombasa; the porters ready to shoulder loads and march 66
A desert camp in old Mexico 78
Casares on his white mule 88
Making fast the sheep’s head 96
A noonday halt on the way down river, returning from the hunting country 106
Bringing out the trophies of the hunt 118
The Captain makes advances to a little Indian girl 152
A morning’s bag of prairie chicken in South Dakota 170

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