Cruisings in the Cascades: A Narrative of Travel, Explorations, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing, with Special Chapters on Hunting the Grizzly Bear, the Buffalo, the Elk, Antelope, Rocky Mountain Goat, and Deer; Also, on Trouting in the Rocky Mountains; on a Montana Round-up; Life among the Cowboys, etc.
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Co., 1889. First edition. 8vo. 339 pp. Illustrated from photographs and wood engravings, plates, vignettes and historiated initials; ad for two other Shields titles tipped in at the front endpaper. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to A.W. Hooper, businessman and sportsman who served as President of the Tarpon Club in Port Aransas, Texas, in the early 1910s. Phillips, p. 343. Heller 620: "The sporting adventures transpired in the Cascade Range in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, the Rocky Mountains, and the Texas Plains." Riling 1256. Bruns S-142. Fine bright copy. Original gilt-stamped decorated blue-green cloth, floral endpapers. (#7807). Item #60848
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