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Lot 15
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and On the Great Plains Comprising "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman" and "The Wilderness Hunter."
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (The Knickerbocker Press), 1899. Limited edition, number 952 of 1000 large-paper copies, this copy without the signed frontispiece plate. Modern cloth with mounted gilt leather labels, two of which were excised from the original binding. 11 x 7 3/4 inches (27.75 x 19.75 cm); [2], xxix, [1], 323, viii, 476 pp., modern photograph mounted as frontispiece, plates after Remington, Frost, Beard, Sanford and others. Replaced portrait frontispiece, contents with marginal toning, brittle paper, chipping in some places along the edges, sold as-is.
"Midway through Roosevelt's third term in 1884, his wife died after giving birth to a daughter. He immersed himself in legislative matters to the end of the session, then sought solace on his ranch in western Dakota--'a land of vast silent spaces, a place of grim beauty. For a while the 25-year-old widower considered a life of ranching, hunting, and writing" (see ANB). Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, published in 1885, was written during this Dakota sojourn. The Wilderness Hunter was first published in 1893. Wheelock 7.
C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books
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