Where to Hunt American Game (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1898 Excerpt: ... TEXAS FIE great state of Texas contains an area of 274,356 square miles, over three times the area of all the New England states. The country within fifty miles of the coast line is level; behind this, in the interior and north, the country is undulating; the northwestern part is made up largely of mountains and table-lands. In this locality is the great Staked plain, containing more than 50,000 square miles. The furred game of Texas consists of elk, deer, antelope, panther, bear, lynx, wolf, --both gray or timberwolf, and the prairie-wolf or coyote, --jack-rabbit, cottontail rabbit, and badger. Occasionally an ocelot and a jaguar are killed; straggling peccary, too, are sometimes shot. The list of feathered game of Texas is long. There are wild turkey, several species of grouse, including the ruffed grouse and pinnated grouse, snipe, and several species of quail. There are believed to be some wild, or passenger-, pigeon in Texas. Deer are abundant in Anderson count-. At Palestine, deer are frequently shot within five or six miles of the city. They are hunted almost exclusively with hounds. In the Pecos river country in western Texas there are cougar or niountain-lion, black and cinnamon bear, wolf, both gray or timber-, and prairie-or coyote. Red deer and black-tailed deer are abundant. North Texas still abounds in antelope and deer. The region known as southwest Texas, between Alice and Brownsville, is probably the best deer country. Herds of 500 have been seen there. Turkey are plentiful north of Kerrville, about 150 miles from San Antonio. Raccoon, opossum, wildcat, and mink are plentiful everywhere, as but little trapping has taken place in Texas. In the Colorado river country, west of Velasco, the sportsman can usually find excellent sport. There are de.