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                    THE MENTOR 1916.08.15, No. 113,
                        Game Animals of America




                            LEARN ONE THING
                               EVERY DAY

                  AUGUST 15 1916      SERIAL NO. 113

                                  THE
                                MENTOR

                             GAME ANIMALS
                              OF AMERICA

                           By W. T. HORNADAY

                           Director New York
                            Zoological Park

                  DEPARTMENT OF             VOLUME 4
                  NATURAL HISTORY          NUMBER 13

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Game Preservation


The most striking and melancholy feature in connection with American
big game is the rapidity with which it has vanished. When, just before
the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the rifle-bearing hunters of the
backwoods first penetrated the great forests west of the Alleghanies,
deer, elk, black bear, and even buffalo, swarmed in what are now the
States of Kentucky and Tennessee, and the country north of the Ohio was
a great and almost virgin hunting-ground. From that day to this the
shrinkage has gone on, only partially checked here and there.

There is yet ample opportunity for the big game hunter in the United
States, Canada and Alaska.… It is necessary to remember that these
opportunities are, nevertheless, vanishing; and if we are a sensible
people we will make it our business to see that the process of
extinction is arrested. At the present moment the great herds of
caribou are being butchered, as in the past the great herds of bison
and wapiti have been butchered. Every believer in manliness, and
therefore in manly sport, and every lover of nature, every man who
