Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches

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Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches is by Theodore Roosevelt, and its contents list names chapters on the bison or American buffalo, the black bear, Old Ephraim, the grisly bear, and wolves and wolf-hounds. The book says it is part II of The Wilderness Hunter, an account of the big game of the United States and its chase with horse, hound and rifle. The hunter wriggled through the grass flat on his face, pushing himself along for perhaps a quarter of a mile by his toes and fingers, and every hollow, every earth hummock and sagebush had to be used as cover.

Roosevelt says that a cougar stood in the trail before him, treading as softly as a kitten, and that the true way to hunt the cougar is to follow it with dogs. The sketches also include a scene in which the Indians opened a perfect fusillade from their side of the river and from the opposite bank, and very soon all of their horses were killed.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), the twenty-sixth president of the United States, was also a naturalist, hunter, and explorer who never lost his appetite for wild country. After leaving office he mounted expeditions in Africa and South America and wrote widely about wildlife, adventure, and the natural world.