With Gun and Rod in Canada

Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF نویسندگان: Phil H. Moore

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فرمت: Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF تاریخ انتشار نسخه الکترونیکی : June 12, 2010 لینک: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003RITJWW

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This illustrated volume was published in 1922. Excerpts from the book: On February 9, 1901, Captain Barrett, of the Western Arms and Sporting Goods Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, presented me to a young mining engineer. The following spring I accompanied him on a prospecting trip in the Wahsatch Range and killed a cinnamon bear. Then he took me on a coaching tour through the mountains of Idaho. I furnished the meat for our party. On returning, my owner, with a partner and pack-outfit, travelled through Strawberry Pass into Ashley Valley. We killed coyotes, sage-hens, and an elk. From Ashley to Price (125 miles through the Bad Lands) I shot a vulture; also, " chance shot " a buck antelope 1,000 yards. At Price we railed to Salt Lake. ............................................................................. One day I was lying in my master's bunk beside the stove. Noticing a queer liquid dripping out of the oven, the cook suddenly remembered the thawing dynamite. Everybody ran. The cabin blew up. I was blown a hundred feet and picked up uninjured. Then we slid down the mountain on skis for assistance, and had to shoot two lean timber wolves en route. It is lucky that I was stoutly built. I have helped to kill grizzly and black bear, mountain lion, sheep, and goats. I travelled north to Sitka and south to Chihuahua, and thence east to Nova Scotia. I spent ten days under water. I shot seals along the Nova Scotia coast from a motor-boat. I shot caribou near Moose Factory on Hudson Bay. Then I joined the gold rush into Porcupine. The next four years I was carried from coast to coast in Canada. .............................................................................. Travelling on horseback through this Rocky Mountain country, which was something over a hundred miles from the railroad, with a pack-outfit was the usual mode of locomotion. We always carried our little rods with us, and the rest of the paraphernalia in our pockets. The placid, still-water brooks in the mountain " parks," as the Mormons call the upland meadows, were also fine places for these diminutive but delicious trout. To fish successfully these waters it was our practice to sneak up on all fours near enough to the edge of the brook to enable us to drop the fly into the water, and, if a fish took hold, to flip him back over our heads into the grass. If a fisherman showed himself on the bank, the trout would hide under the overhang and sulk. In the very high altitudes we now and then struck a mountain pool full of trout. They were usually ravenous and would bite anything thrown into the water. Although marked about the same as an Eastern brook- trout, these fish were lean and weak, and would not put up much of a fight after being hooked. ............................................................................ Saving Moose Meat It is the ambition of most habitual amateur sportsmen some day to be able to go into the woods alone with their own canoe and outfit, and successfully hunt and kill a big moose, and get it out to some point where an automobile or wagon can take it to railroad transporta- tion. Many amateurs that can shoot accurately and have the nerve to face and kill big game would be practi- cally helpless if they had to disembowel, skin, cut up, and carry a moose to their canoe. Even though a hunter is not physically strong enough to actually carry quartered moose meat out of the woods, he can still prepare the meat so that it can be safely hung and left while he goes out to get help. Outside an occasional black bear, there are no animals in the Nova Scotia woods that will destroy meat if it is not left over a day or two. On the other hand, blowflies will put meat in such a condition that it is unusable in a short time.

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