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Theodore Roosevelt. Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter
Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. WITH THE COUGAR HOUNDS
CHAPTER II. A COLORADO BEAR HUNT
CHAPTER III. WOLF-COURSING
CHAPTER IV. HUNTING IN THE CATTLE COUNTRY; THE PRONGBUCK
CHAPTER V. A SHOT AT A MOUNTAIN SHEEP
CHAPTER VI. THE WHITETAIL DEER
CHAPTER VII. THE MULE-DEER, OR ROCKY MOUNTAIN BLACKTAIL
CHAPTER VIII. THE WAPITI, OR ROUND-HORNED ELK
CHAPTER IX. WILDERNESS RESERVES; THE YELLOWSTONE PARK
CHAPTER X. BOOKS ON BIG GAME
CHAPTER XI. AT HOME
CHAPTER XII. IN THE LOUISIANA CANEBRAKES
CHAPTER XIII. SMALL COUNTRY NEIGHBORS
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Theodore Roosevelt
Published by Good Press, 2021
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When the bobcats were in the tree-tops we could get up very close. They looked like large malevolent pussies. I once heard one of them squall defiance when the dogs tried to get it out of a hole. Ordinarily they confined themselves to a low growling. Stewart and Goff went up the trees with their cameras whenever we got a bobcat in a favorable position, and endeavored to take its photograph. Sometimes they were very successful. Although they were frequently within six feet of a cat, and occasionally even poked it in order to make it change its position, I never saw one make a motion to jump on them. Two or three times on our approach the cat jumped from the tree almost into the midst of the pack, but it was so quick that it got off before they could seize it. They invariably put it up another tree before it had gone any distance.
Hunting the bobcat was only an incident. Our true quarry was the cougar. I had long been anxious to make a regular hunt after cougar in a country where the beasts were plentiful and where we could follow them with a good pack of hounds. Astonishingly little of a satisfactory nature has been left on record about the cougar by hunters, and in most places the chances for observation of the big cats steadily grow less. They have been thinned out almost to the point of extermination throughout the Eastern States. In the Rocky Mountain region they are still plentiful in places, but are growing less so; while on the contrary the wolf, which was exterminated even more quickly in the East, in the West has until recently been increasing in numbers. In northwestern Colorado a dozen years ago, cougars were far more plentiful than wolves; whereas at the present day the wolf is probably the more numerous. Nevertheless, there are large areas, here and there among the Rockies, in which cougars will be fairly plentiful for years to come.
