. Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth president of the United States. A typical American . t took advantage of the vacation toengage in a hunt which he had been contemplat-ing for years, and which possessed all possibleattractiveness for a man of his mettle. Of thefew big animals in the United States, still wildand defiant of the hunter, the grizzly bear and themountain lion, the latter commonly called thecougar, are the most distinctive. He had madetrial with the grizzly, and the result of his hunt-ing has been told. There was a section of thecountry, in the wilds of Colorado, where thecougar ha
. Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth president of the United States. A typical American . t took advantage of the vacation toengage in a hunt which he had been contemplat-ing for years, and which possessed all possibleattractiveness for a man of his mettle. Of thefew big animals in the United States, still wildand defiant of the hunter, the grizzly bear and themountain lion, the latter commonly called thecougar, are the most distinctive. He had madetrial with the grizzly, and the result of his hunt-ing has been told. There was a section of thecountry, in the wilds of Colorado, where thecougar had not been much hunted; and there hewent in the late winter and early spring of found a hunter who possessed the necessarypack of hunting-dogs, and who knew where thedangerous animals could be found. And therethe two of them hunted for a month. In thattime Mr. Eoosevelt killed fourteen cougars,some at the expense of great peril, all at theexpense of hardship and exposure. The story ofthat himt has been admirably told by Mr. Eoose-velt in Scribners Magazine for October, A FINE BOBCAT HOKOES THRUST UPON HIM. 353 But, lest the imputation of an unwarranted lustfor hunting should lie against him, it must bestated that natural history is greatly the gainerbecause of his hunt. He tells of the varyingcharacteristics of the animals; of their rangeand habits and peculiarities; and he sent to theSmithsonian Institute at Washington the skullsof all the animals killed, so that their measure-ments might be taken and added to the slendersum of information possessed by Americans as tothis most distinctive of American animals. Theinteresting feature as to all his enterprises is thathe looks below the surface. Here, at a time whenhe might have been pardoned for resigning him-self utterly to the delights of the chase, he wasstudying the characteristics of the creatures heencountered, comparing them with the ratherlimited data already published, and establishingthe truth as existing
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