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The wilderness hunter

Chapter 1: The Wilderness Hunter
By Theodore Roosevelt
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A collection of hunting essays and firsthand field reports that recount journeys across forests, plains, and mountains, offering practical accounts of stalking and shooting large game, camp life, and ranch routines. Chapters profile species such as deer, pronghorn, bighorn sheep, and mountain goats, describe hunting techniques and habitat, and present vivid landscape description, hunting anecdotes, and reflections on the physical demands and pleasures of outdoor life. Interwoven are observations on animal behavior, wilderness skills, and the communal aspects of hunting.

The Works of
Theodore Roosevelt
In Fourteen Volumes

Illustrated

The Wilderness Hunter

Executive Edition

Published with the permission of the
President through special arrangement
with the century co., messrs. Charles
Scribner’s sons, and G. P. Putnam’s Sons

The Co-operative Publication Society

New York and London

To
E. K. R.

“They saw the silences
Move by and beckon; saw the forms,
The very beards, of burly storms,
And heard them talk like sounding seas....
They saw the snowy mountains rolled
And heaved along the nameless lands
Like mighty billows; saw the gold
Of awful sunsets; saw the blush
Of sudden dawn, and felt the hush
Of heaven when the day sat down
And hid his face in dusky hands.”

—Joaquin Miller

“In vain the speeding of shyness;
In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods....
... where geese nip their food with short jerks,
Where sundown shadows lengthen over the limitless prairie,
Where herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles, far and near,
Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and ice-clad trees....
The moose, large as an ox, cornered by hunters, plunging with his forefeet, the hoofs as sharp as knives....
The blazing fire at night, the sweet taste of supper, the talk, the bed of hemlock boughs, and the bear-skin.”

—Walt Whitman