Lamar Underwood is the former editor-in-chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life and former editorial director of the Outdoor Magazine Group of Harris Publications in New York. The numerous books he has edited include Tales of the Mountain Men, The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told, Survival Stories, and War Stories and the novel On Dangerous Ground.

• Preface to the new edition by Lamar UnderwoodIntroduction by Lamar UnderwoodPart One: The Western YearsThe Making of a HunterWhen Moose Become DangerousPortrait of the GrislyHunting in the Cattle CountryThe Bison: America's First Big GameThe Pioneer Hunters/TrappersWilderness Hunters and Wilderness GameHunting from a Bad Lands RanchHunting the GrislyThe Deer of the River BottomsThe Black-Tail DeerThe Prong-Buck: A Trip on the PrairieStill-Hunting Elk on the MountainsA Trip After Mountain SheepThe Black BearThe Mountain Game: The White GoatThe Moose: The Beast of the WoodlandHunting LorePart Two: SafariForewordA Railroad Through the PleistoceneLion Hunting on the Kapiti PlainsOn Safari: Rhino and GiraffeHunting in the SotikElephant Hunting on Mount KeniaTo the Uasin GishuUganda and the Great Nyanza LakesOf Ants and Elephants

In the old days, in the wild west, men went out and shot anything they wanted.... In the time before hunting tags, licenses and conservation, senseless slaughter was at home on the range. It took the dedication of conservation-minded hunters like Theodore Roosevelt to start clubs and enact conservation legislation aimed at saving animals for future generations.

Lamar Underwood is the former editor-in-chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life and former editorial director of the Outdoor Magazine Group of Harris Publications in New York. The numerous books he has edited include Tales of the Mountain Men, The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told, Survival Stories, and War Stories and the novel On Dangerous Ground.

• Preface to the new edition by Lamar UnderwoodIntroduction by Lamar UnderwoodPart One: The Western YearsThe Making of a HunterWhen Moose Become DangerousPortrait of the GrislyHunting in the Cattle CountryThe Bison: America's First Big GameThe Pioneer Hunters/TrappersWilderness Hunters and Wilderness GameHunting from a Bad Lands RanchHunting the GrislyThe Deer of the River BottomsThe Black-Tail DeerThe Prong-Buck: A Trip on the PrairieStill-Hunting Elk on the MountainsA Trip After Mountain SheepThe Black BearThe Mountain Game: The White GoatThe Moose: The Beast of the WoodlandHunting LorePart Two: SafariForewordA Railroad Through the PleistoceneLion Hunting on the Kapiti PlainsOn Safari: Rhino and GiraffeHunting in the SotikElephant Hunting on Mount KeniaTo the Uasin GishuUganda and the Great Nyanza LakesOf Ants and Elephants

In the old days, in the wild west, men went out and shot anything they wanted.... In the time before hunting tags, licenses and conservation, senseless slaughter was at home on the range. It took the dedication of conservation-minded hunters like Theodore Roosevelt to start clubs and enact conservation legislation aimed at saving animals for future generations.

Lamar Underwood is the former editor-in-chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life and former editorial director of the Outdoor Magazine Group of Harris Publications in New York. The numerous books he has edited include Tales of the Mountain Men, The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told, Survival Stories, and War Stories and the novel On Dangerous Ground.

• Preface to the new edition by Lamar UnderwoodIntroduction by Lamar UnderwoodPart One: The Western YearsThe Making of a HunterWhen Moose Become DangerousPortrait of the GrislyHunting in the Cattle CountryThe Bison: America's First Big GameThe Pioneer Hunters/TrappersWilderness Hunters and Wilderness GameHunting from a Bad Lands RanchHunting the GrislyThe Deer of the River BottomsThe Black-Tail DeerThe Prong-Buck: A Trip on the PrairieStill-Hunting Elk on the MountainsA Trip After Mountain SheepThe Black BearThe Mountain Game: The White GoatThe Moose: The Beast of the WoodlandHunting LorePart Two: SafariForewordA Railroad Through the PleistoceneLion Hunting on the Kapiti PlainsOn Safari: Rhino and GiraffeHunting in the SotikElephant Hunting on Mount KeniaTo the Uasin GishuUganda and the Great Nyanza LakesOf Ants and Elephants

In the old days, in the wild west, men went out and shot anything they wanted.... In the time before hunting tags, licenses and conservation, senseless slaughter was at home on the range. It took the dedication of conservation-minded hunters like Theodore Roosevelt to start clubs and enact conservation legislation aimed at saving animals for future generations.