This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...and she did not recognize him when he presented himself to her. The meeting was most affecting. John, the frontiersman, could not repress his tears as he took his old mother in his arms. She was a sweet old lady, born in Cambridge, Mass., sev Kanab Dam, 500 Feet Long, 50 Feet High, Built by Ranchmen. Holds Kanab's ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...and she did not recognize him when he presented himself to her. The meeting was most affecting. John, the frontiersman, could not repress his tears as he took his old mother in his arms. She was a sweet old lady, born in Cambridge, Mass., sev Kanab Dam, 500 Feet Long, 50 Feet High, Built by Ranchmen. Holds Kanab's Prosperity. enty-eight years before, of an old New England family. "My oldest child," she said with pride, "is a daughter sixty years old. John is my baby. I have two hundred and three living descendants, and one hundred and one great grandchildren. That isn't race suicide, is it?" Kanab lies just north of the Arizona line, in Kane County, Utah. In crossing the line I had left Arizona behind me, and my trail thence was to carry me through the entire length of Utah, from its southern to its northern boundary. In reaching this point we had traversed a full eight hundred miles of Arizona mountain and desert trails and passed through some of the Territory's best game and fish country. In the course of this journey I was impressed with the fact that Arizona's wild game is receiving scant attention and protection. The system of wardenship appeared to me most inadequate. Everywhere men spoke most unreservedly of killing deer and antelope in and out of season, and few had any realization of the necessity of protecting these animals, or possessed any sense of an obligation to respect the game laws. To a certain extent this is perhaps a condition bound to prevail in every sparsely settled region, but the game regions of Arizona could be, with small expense, and most assuredly should be, better patrolled and the game laws more stringently enforced than at present. This lack of protection has already resulted in the extinction of elk in Ar...
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8vo. 21.5cm, the first edition, xvi, 302p., frontis & 46 plates and illustrations, in the original dark blue cloth, gilt titles on the spine and upper cover, fine. (wst) Includes a pack trip starting in Arizona, proceeding northward for two thousand miles into Montana and hunting experiences in Utah and Colorado and Wyoming.
