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An Annotated Bibliography of Books Related to Hunting the Wild Sheep

and Goats of the World

by

Dr. Ken CzechDr. Raul Valdez

Safari Press Inc.

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments..................................................................... viIntroduction.............................................................................viiAdair.to.Axbey...........................................................................1Babala.to.Byroade....................................................................13Caldwell.to.Cutting..............................................................36Dalrymple.to.Durham............................................................53Easton.to.Evans........................................................................63Fawcett.to.Freeman.................................................................69Gardner.to.Guillemard...........................................................77Photo Section..........................................................................87Haggard.to.Hutchinson.......................................................119Imam.to.Irby......................................................................... 138James.to.Judd..........................................................................140Kahn.to.Kuntze.....................................................................145Lacey.to.Lydekker..................................................................155MacIntyre.to.Myers...............................................................165Nazaroff.to.Nowicki.............................................................183O’Connor.to.Owen................................................................189Page.to.Prothero....................................................................195Quimby.................................................................................. 208Radclyffe.to.Rydell............................................................... 209Saad.to.Sykes......................................................................... 223Taber.to.Tyacke.....................................................................251Usak.to.Üstay.........................................................................259Valdez.to.Vokins.................................................................. 260Walker.to.Wright................................................................. 265Yajko.to.Yurén....................................................................... 279Zumbo....................................................................................281Appendix.I:.Natural.History.Books,....Guides,.and.References.................................................... 285Appendix.II:.Common.and.Scientific.Names.of.....Wild.Sheep,.Goats,.and.Related.Mountain.Ungulates..... 291

A (Adair, Capt. F. E. S.) F. E. S. A. Sport in Ladakh. London: Horace

Cox, 1895. 4to., 32 pp., frontis, photo plates. Light blue cloth with gilt stamping and sheep photo inset on front board.In this scarce work, the author used five articles originally appearing in The Field magazine detailing a five-month sporting expedition in Baltistan and Ladakh. He hunted ibex, bharal, goa antelope, Ovis ammon, and urial, with chapters on each of these species.

Adair, F[rederick] E. S. A Summer in High Asia: Being a Record of Sport and Travel in Baltistan and Ladakh. London: W. Thacker & Co., 1899. 8vo., xii + 288 pp., frontis, folding map, illustrated plates. Tan cloth with pictorial stamping. In this classic of high-mountain hunting, Adair and his companions crossed the Chorbat River into Ladakh where they stalked ibex and Ovis vignei. After reaching Leh, they hunted Tibetan argali and urial.

Adams, Andrew Leith. Wanderings of a Naturalist in India, the Western Himalayas and Cashmere. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Doug-las, 1867. 8vo., xi + 333 pp., frontis. Green cloth with gilt on spine and title. Adams, a noted naturalist, describes India’s abundance of wildlife, with vignettes of hunting markhor on the Pir Panjal and ibex in Kashmir, and with notes on other game and bird specimens he collected.

Adams, Chuck. Super Slam! Adventures with North American Big Game. Chanhassen, MN: ihunt! Communications, 2003. 8vo., 351 pp., photos. Laminated pictorial boards.

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Adams offers chapters on hunting all North American big game with his bow, including mountain goat and the Grand Slam of Sheep. He collected a goat on Olivia’s Nipple in northern British Columbia; a Dall sheep in the Mackenzie Mountains of the Northwest Territories; a Stone ram near Watson Lake in the Yukon; a bighorn in west-central Alberta; and a desert ram in northwest Arizona’s Hualapai Reservation.

Aflalo, F[rederick] G., ed. Sport in Europe. London: Sands and Co., 1901. 4to., xii + 483 pp., frontis photo, and illustrated plates. Olive cloth with pictorial gilt stamping.This compendium of articles includes a lengthy chapter on hunting in the Russian Empire by Elim Demidoff for tur, chamois, and bharal in the Caucasus, and with notes of Ovis poli and Ovis ammon in the southern mountainous regions. The rest of Europe is treated on a country-by-country basis with information on hunting chamois in Austria, Hungary, Italy, Germany, and Spain; ibex in Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy; and mouflon in Sardinia. Of actual hunting experiences, Pablo Larios describes his hunt after ibex in Spain’s Sierra Blanca of Ojén.

Aflalo, F. G., ed. The Sportsman’s Book for India. London: Horace Marshall & Son, 1904. Royal 8vo., xvi + errata slip + 567 pp., color folding map, frontis, illustrated and photo plates, 3 map plates. Dark green cloth with pictorial gilt stamping.Aflalo collected a variety of veteran sportsmen as contributors to this compendium of Indian field sports. Most the big-game hunting information is presented in terms of routes to take, equipment, best areas to hunt, and seasons as opposed to actual hunting experiences. In his chapter on hunting in the Himalayas and Kashmir, Captain A. G. Arbuthnot does include his ibex hunting adventures in Baltistan.

Aitken, Russell Barnett. Great Game Animals of the World. New York: The Macmillan Co., no date [1968]. Square 4to., 191

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pp., color and b&w photos. Gold-colored cloth, dust jacket. British edition published by Crescent Press (London), 1969.This is more of a picture book of game animals with some very good photos of hunters and their trophies including a variety of wild sheep and goats. There is a one-page description of Marco Polo sheep, and a one-page description of chamois but without hunting episodes.

Ajax. “Good Hunting!” or What to Do on Shikar and How to Do It. Calcutta: Thacker & Spink, no date [1913]. 12mo., xiv + 62 pp., tipped-in photo frontis. Softcover. The anonymous author provides advice for hunters in India based on his own experiences. He includes brief episodes of his hunts for tahr and serow, with additional notes on how to stalk markhor, ibex, and wild sheep.

Akroyd, Charles H. A Veteran Sportsman’s Diary. Inverness: Robert Carruthers & Sons, 1926. Royal 8vo., 337 pp., frontis. Blue cloth, gilt stamping.Akroyd recounts his adventures hunting and fishing in a variety of European, British, and North American locales. Included are descriptions of two trips to the Rockies with successful hunts in the Lillooet region after mountain goat on the first journey, and a successful stalk of bighorns in the Similkameen area in the second.

Allen, Dr. William A. Adventures with Indians and Big Game, or Twenty Years in the Rockies. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1903. 8vo., 302 pp., frontis, photo plates. Brown half-leather, gilt stamping, with marbled paper-covered boards. Allen, a dentist, provides numerous adventures he experienced while in the Rockies and on the Great Plains. Among the game he bagged were bighorn sheep near the Bear Tooth Range in Montana and mountain goat in Dearborn Canyon.

Allison, Col[in], ed. The Trophy Hunters. Action-Packed Tales of Hunting Big Game Trophies around the World—1860 to Today. Ultimo,

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Australia: Murray Books, 1979. Crown 4to., 240 pp., frontis, color and b&w photos. Green cloth, dust jacket An anthology of stories with chapters on hunting bezoar goat in the Kirthar Range, Pakistan, by Elgin Gates; Herb Klein’s stalk of Marco Polo sheep in Hunza, Pakistan; a hunt for Stone sheep in northern British Columbia by Raymond Speer; and a successful hunt for chamois and tahr in New Zealand by Keith Severinsen.

Alward, Arnold (with Bill Quimby). To Heck with It, I’m Going Hunting: My First Eighteen Years as an International Big-Game Hunter. Long Beach: Safari Press, 2003. 8vo., 316 pp., color photo plates. Burgundy cloth with pictorial gilt stamping, slipcase. Limited edition of 1,000 numbered and signed copies. Alward’s numerous hunting adventures took him to Mon-golia’s Upper Altai where he collected Altai and Gobi argali; the Pamirs after Marco Polo sheep; desert bighorn in Baja California; Dall sheep in Alaska; and bighorn and Stone sheep in the Rockies.

Anderson, Robert M. Great Rams and Great Ram Hunters. Dallas: Collector’s Covey, 1994. 4to., 255 pp., photos and illustrations. Green cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket.This is a chronicle of North American sheep hunting and sheep hunters stretching over eighty years. Heavy on photo-graphs with lengthy captions.

Anderson, Robert M. Wind, Dust, and Snow: Great Rams of Asia. Dallas: Collector’s Covey, 1998. 4to., 240 pp., photos. Green cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket. Limited edition of 500 numbered and signed copies.Anderson examines the world of Asian sheep hunting from 1950 to 1996 with special notice on collecting the Super Slam of Sheep and the taking of the first Marco Polo ram by a Westerner since 1926.

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Anderson, Robert M. Jack O’Connor: The Legendary Life of America’s Greatest Gunwriter. Long Beach: Safari Press, 2002. 8vo., xx + 261 pp., photo plates. Yellow cloth with gilt stamping, slipcase. Limited edition of 1,000 numbered and signed copies. Anderson uses a variety of printed and private material in constructing this biography of the famous American sportsman and writer, and includes O’Connor’s hunts for North American and Asian sheep and goats.

Anderson, Robert M. John J. LoMonaco: A Hunting Lifetime. Dallas: JoLo Productions, 2007. 4to., 244 pp., color frontis, color photos. Clothbound with gilt stamping, slipcase. Limited edition of 300 numbered and signed copies. Anderson relates LoMonaco’s hunts for Dall and Stone sheep and Rocky Mountain goat in Canada; Marco Polo sheep in Tajikistan; and Iberian ibex. LoMonaco also notes his hunts for Altai argali and Siberian ibex in Mongolia and bezoar goat in Turkey

Anderson, Robert M. Great Rams and Great Ram Hunters II. Dal-las: Collector’s Covey, 2008. Square 4to., 248 pp., photos. Clothbound with silver stamping, dust jacket.Included in the work is a comprehensive sixty-year history of backpack hunting for Dall sheep in Alaska, a historical overview of Montana’s Beartooth Plateau, and a salute to the desert bighorn restoration program. This book’s numerous photos feature lengthy captions.

Andrews, Roy Chapman & Yvette Borup Andrews. Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China. New York & London: D. Appleton and Co., 1918. 8vo., xxv + 334 pp., frontis, photo plates, 2 folding maps. Dark blue cloth with pictorial gilt stamping, dust jacket.As leaders of the American Museum of Natural History’s

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Asiatic Zoological Expedition, Andrews and his wife jour-neyed to Yunnan province in southwestern China where they collected goral in the hill country near Lijiang. As the caravan approached the Sino-Burmese border, additional goral and serow were bagged.

Andrews, Roy Chapman. Across Mongolian Plains: A Naturalist’s Account of China’s “Great Northwest.” New York & London: D. Appleton and Co., 1921. 8vo., xxiv + 276 pp. + 2 pp. ads., frontis, photo plates, map. Dark blue cloth with pictorial gilt stamping, dust jacket.During a second Asiatic zoological expedition, Andrews traveled into the Shaanxi Mountains in China with Harry Caldwell and stalked argali and wapiti.

Andrews, Roy Chapman. On the Trail of Ancient Man: A Narrative of the Field Work of the Central Asiatic Expeditions. New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1926. 8vo. xxiv + 375 pp. Frontis + photo plates, folding map. Gray-green cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket.During the Central Asiatic Expedition, Andrews entered the Tsinling Mountains of Shaanxi province in China to hunt takin. As the expedition wound its way through the Altai Mountains, they stalked ibex; there is a brief mention of hunting wild sheep as the caravan returned.

Andrews, Roy Chapman. Ends of the Earth. New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1929. 8vo., x + 355 pp., frontis, photo plates. Black cloth, dust jacket. In this review of his many adventures abroad, Andrews pro-vides brief mention of stalks after serow and wild sheep in the Yunnan and Shensi regions of China.

Andrews, Roy Chapman, et al. The New Conquest of Central Asia: A Narrative of the Explorations of the Central Asiatic Expeditions in Mongolia and China 1921–1930. Vol. 1: Natural History of Central Asia. New York: American Museum of Natural

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History, 1932. 4to., 678 pp., color frontis, photos plates (some folding), figures, 3 folding maps. Orange cloth, dust jacket.In what became a massive, multivolume set examining zoo-logical and geological aspects of Central Asia, Andrews de-scribes traveling through the Arts-bogdo Range of southern Mongolia where he hunted ibex and Gobi argali. Addition-ally, he details a hunt after takin in China’s Shensi province.

Andrews, Roy Chapman. Under a Lucky Star: A Lifetime of Adventure. New York: The Viking Press, 1943. 300 pp. Brown cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket.Similar in scope to his Ends of the Earth, this book recounts Andrews’s adventures from a lifetime of embarking on sci-entific expeditions. Included are descriptions of stalking goral near Yunnan.

Andrews, Roy Chapman. Heart of Asia: True Tales of the Far East. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pierce, 1951. 224 pp. Red cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket.In this collection of works originally published in True maga-zine, Andrews provides a sampling of his many adventures. Of interest is a chapter on stalking takin in China and wild sheep in the Mongolian-China borderlands.

Annabel, Russell. Tales of a Big Game Guide. New York: Derrydale Press, 1938. Royal 8vo., 198 pp., frontis, photo plates. Bur-gundy cloth with decorative gilt stamping, ivory half-buck-ram spine with leather spine label, glassine jacket. Limited edition of 950 numbered copies.In this classic on sport in Alaska, Annabel recounts his hunts for Dall sheep and mountain goat in the Knik River area of the Chugach Range.

Annabel, Russell. Hunting and Fishing in Alaska. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. 8vo. xiv + 341 pp., color frontis, photo plates. Burgundy cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket.

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In this well-known account, Annabel includes hunting for Dall sheep in the Goose Creek area of the Alaska Range and mountain goat in the Chugach Barrier Range.

Annabel, Russell. Alaskan Tales. New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1953. 8vo., 137 pp. Blue cloth, dust jacket.Annabel describes some of his earliest adventures in Alaska, including shooting a mountain goat that almost cost him his life in a resulting landslide.

Annabel, Russell. Alaskan Days—Mexican Nights. Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1987. 8vo., 455 pp., illustrations. Blue leatherette with gilt stamping, slipcase. Limited to 1,000 copies. Among this collection of magazine articles originally pub-lished between 1951 and 1968 are several chapters on An-nabel’s hunts after Dall sheep in Alaska’s Matanuska Val-ley and other locales, and after mountain goats in the Knik River region.

Annabel, Russell. Alaskan Adventures, Volume I. Long Beach: Safari Press, 1995. 4to., 351 pp., illustrated with drawings. Yellow cloth, slipcase. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by author’s wife and son.Culled from Annabel’s numerous magazine stories from the 1930s and ’40s, this volume includes his hunt with Tex Cobb for Dall sheep.

Annabel, Russell. Adventure Is My Business, Volume II. Long Beach: Safari Press, 1996. 4to., 341 pp., illustrated. Blue cloth with black stamping, slipcase. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by author’s wife and son.Taken from Annabel’s articles written between 1951–1955, this volume includes additional Dall sheep hunting adventures.

Annabel, Russell. Adventure Is in My Blood, Volume III. Long Beach: 1996. 4to., 384 pp., illustrated. Red cloth with black stamping, slipcase. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by author’s wife and son.

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Compiled from the author’s articles written between 1957–1970 are even more sheep hunting stories.

Annabel, Russell. The High Road to Adventure, Volume IV. Long Beach: 1997. 4to., 375 pp., illustrated. Green cloth with black stamping, slipcase. Limited to 1,000 numbered cop-ies signed by author’s wife and son.Compiled from the author’s articles written between 1964–1970 are stories on hunting wild goats.

Annabel, Russell. The Way We Were, Volume V. Long Beach: 1998. 4to., 394 pp., illustrated. Red cloth with black stamping, slipcase. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by au-thor’s wife and son.Compiled from the author’s articles written between 1970–1979 are stories on hunting wild goats.

Antrobus, Sally & William R. Quimby, comps. Safaris Revisited: The Best of Safari Magazine of the 1980s. Tucson: Safari Club In-ternational, 1992. Royal 8vo., 240 pp., photos, illustrations. Dark brown cloth with pictorial gilt stamping, dust jacket.In this collection of stories written for Safari magazine during the 1980s are several on sheep and goat hunting. Ricardo Medem details his hunt for Himalayan blue sheep on Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal; Lenny Hoover describes stalking desert bighorn in the Tinajas Altas range in Arizona; Lynn Castle recounts hunting mark-hor on Mount Tirich Mir in the Kalash Valley; Lloyd Zeman tells how he bagged a Marco Polo ram in the Russian Pamirs above the Balandkiik River; and Rich-ard Carlsberg describes his Wyoming bighorn hunt near Yellowstone.

Apponyi, Count Henrik. My Big Game Hunting Diary from India and the Himalayas. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1937. 8vo., 254 pp. + 32 pp. ads., frontis, photo plates, endpaper maps. Red cloth with pictorial gilt stamping, dust jacket.

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Among this Hungarian aristocrat’s sporting adventures are climbs and hunts in the Khyber highlands where he collected trophy ibex, markhor, and urial. On the frontiers of Tibet he bagged Ovis ammon, bharal, and Tibetan antelope. The photos are particularly interesting.

Arbuthnot, James. A Trip to Kashmir. Calcutta: Thacker & Spink, 1900. 4to., viii + 104 pp., frontis, photo plates, and illustra-tions. Tan cloth with pictorial gilt stamping. While traveling along the Gilgit Road in Kashmir, the author and his party ascended into the snow country where they took numerous ibex.

Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Society. A Hunter’s Guide to the Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep. Mesa: Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Society, Inc., 1972. Crown 8vo., 30 pp., illustrations, map. Pictorial softcover.A multiauthored hunting guide including chapters on “Hunting Sheep in Arizona” by Jack Walters that covers general advice; “The Value of Preseason Scouting” by Tom Saad; and “Legal vs. Trophy” by Jim Stephenson that covers field judging trophy heads.

Armstrong, Neville A. D. After Big Game in the Upper Yukon. London: John Long Limited, 1937. 8vo., 287 pp. + 8 pp. ads., frontis, photo plates, end-paper map. Black cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket.Armstrong hunted along the South Fork of the Macmillan River where he collected Fannin sheep. During another trip in 1925, he bagged more sheep near Saw Tooth Pass. He also includes a fine assortment of other Yukon big-game hunting adventures.

Asbell, G. Fred. Instinctive Shooting: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Bowhunting. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 1988. 4to., 128 pp., photos. Pictorial softcover.

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Asbell, hunting editor of Bowhunter magazine, provides all sorts of archery and bow-hunting tips and techniques, including his experiences stalking bighorn sheep in the Rockies.

Atcheson, Jack Hunting Adventures Worldwide. Stevensville, MT: Stoneydale Press Publishing Company, 1995. 8vo., 256 pp., photos. Yellow cloth, dust jacket. World recognized outfitter Atcheson details hunting mountain goat and bighorn sheep in Montana; Gobi argali in Mongolia; wild sheep and goat in Iran; Stone sheep in British Columbia; Dall sheep in Alaska by Jack Atcheson Jr.; mountain goat in Alaska by Keith Atcheson; and Dall sheep in Alaska by Kerry Constan and Jack Atcheson.

Auer, Harry A. Camp Fires in the Yukon. Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1916. 8vo., vi + 204 pp., frontis, photo plates, maps. Dark green cloth with pictorial gilt stamping, dust jacket. Auer and his companions hunted Dall sheep in the Saint Elias Range and near Klutlan Glacier, then proceeded to Slims Mountains after mountain goat.

Axbey, Bill. Along the Track: A Collection of New Zealand Hunting Yarns. Auckland: Collins, New Zealand, 1991. 8vo., vi + 153 pp., photo plates. Tan cloth with argent (silver) stamping, dust jacket.Included among the hunting anecdotes in this book are episodes of stalking tahr and chamois as well as other game.

BBabala, Jim. The Arizona Desert King and I. Whitehorse, Yukon: pri-

vately printed, 1989. 8vo., ix + 241 pp., photos. Green cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket.Babala recounts hunting trips in Arizona and Mexico for desert bighorn rams with Jack Walters, the “Desert King.” There are also hunts for bighorn in the Alberta Rockies.

Bailey, Lt.-Col. F[rederick] M[arshman]. China–Tibet–Assam: A Journey, 1911. London: Jonathan Cape, 1945. 8vo., 175 pp., frontis, folding map at rear. Red cloth, dust jacket. A great naturalist, explorer, and collector of natural history specimens, Bailey devotes an entire chapter to his successful hunts for takin in northern Burma but only gives passing mention of having shot an Ovis ammon in Tibet and his unsuccessful attempts to add bharal to his collection.

Bailey, Lt.-Col. F. M. No Passport to Tibet. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. 8vo., 294 pp., frontis, photo plates, sketch maps. Maroon cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket.During his exploration in the area on the Tibet and Assam border in 1913, Bailey collected bharal but was unsuccessful in stalking Ovis ammon.

Bailey, Robert G. River of No Return, the Great Salmon River of Idaho. A Century of Central Idaho and Eastern Washington History and Development. Together with the Wars, Customs, Myths, and Leg-ends of the Nez Percé Indians. Lewiston: Bailey-Balke Printing Co., 1935. 8vo., frontis, xxiv + 515 pp., map, photo plates, il-lustrations. Green cloth with pictorial gilt stamping. Limited edition of 1,400 signed and numbered copies. Revised edition, 1947, 783 pp. Limited edition of 2,000 signed copies.


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Much of this work is devoted to the history of the region including mining, Indian wars, and settlement with two chapters on hunting bighorn sheep in the Salmon River country.

Baillie, Mrs. W. W. (S. L. Baillie). Days & Nights of Shikar. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd., 1921. 8vo., v + [1] + 241 pp. + 6 pp. ads., color frontis. Gray cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket. The wife of a British army clergyman in India, Mrs. Baillie was soundly bitten by the sporting bug. Among her numerous adventures is a chapter on hunting ibex and tahr near Chamba in the Himalayas.

Baillie-Grohman, W[illiam] A. Tyrol and the Tyrolese: The People and the Land in the Social, Sporting, and Mountaineer-ing Aspects. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1876. Crown 8vo., xvi + 278 pp., frontis, illustrated plates, illustrations. Black cloth with gilt stamping. The U.S. edition was expanded and published by Henry Holt and Company (New York) in 1878 as Gaddings with a Primi-tive People, Being a Series of Sketches of Tyrolese Life and Customs (two volumes).The author describes various aspects of the terrain and life in the Tyrolean Alps, including a chapter on his experiences hunting chamois, and another chapter on chamois poachers.

Baillie-Grohman, W. A. Camps in the Rockies: Being a Narrative of Life on the Frontier, and Sport in the Rocky Mountains, with an Account of the Cattle Ranches of the West. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1882. Crown 8vo., viii + 438 pp., folding map. Green cloth with pictorial gilt stamping. British edition published by Sampson Low (London). An English traveler and sportsman, Baillie-Grohman expe-rienced cattle ranching in Wyoming and Montana, camped in the Colorado River canyons and the Teton Basin, and hunted elk and bighorn sheep.

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Baillie-Grohman, W. A. Sport in the Alps Past and Present: An Account of the Chase of the Chamois, Red Deer, Bouquetin, Roe-deer, Capercaillie, and Black Cock, with Personal Adventures and Historical Notes and Some Sporting Reminiscences of H.R.H. the Late Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1896. Royal 8vo., xv + 356 pp. + 4 pp. ads., frontis, photo and illustrated plates, illustrations. Blue cloth with pictorial gilt stamping. U.S. edition published by Charles Scribner’s Sons (New York).Perhaps the best treatise in the English language on hunting in the Alps is this book, which is especially descriptive of stalking chamois. This work includes extensive historical and hunting exploits after the European chamois, and historical accounts of the near extinction of the European ibex (which was saved from extinction by King Victor Emmanuel when he created a reserve in the Piedmont Alps in Switzerland to protect the remaining herd of not more than 50 ibex).

Baillie-Grohman, W. A., with a chapter by Mrs. Baillie-Grohman. Fifteen Years’ Sport and Life in the Hunting Grounds of Western America and British Columbia. London: Horace Cox, 1900. Royal 8vo., xii + 403 pp. + 2 pp. press opinions, frontis, pho-to plates, photos, 2 folding maps in rear pocket. Green cloth with decorative gilt stamping.Among the game the author hunted were mountain goats in the Bitter-Root Mountains of Idaho, and in the Selkirks of British Columbia. Though he includes a chapter on bighorn sheep, it contains nothing of his sporting adventures.

Bairnsfather, Lt.-Col. P. R. Sport and Nature in the Himalayas. London: Harrison & Sons, 1914. Royal 8vo., xv + 137 pp. + 3 pp. ads., frontis, illustrations. Green cloth with picto-rial gilt stamping. After providing chapters on general information regarding Himalayan game, Bairnsfather offers chapters on his own

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experiences hunting markhor and ibex in the hill country of the Sindh Valley, and Ovis ammon in Tibet.

Baker, Milford, ed. Records of North American Big Game. A Book of the Boone and Crockett Club Compiled by the Committee on Records of North American Big Game. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. 8vo. xviii + 398 pp., photos. Maroon cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket.In a chapter titled “The Satisfactions of Trophy Hunting” by Arthur C. Popham Jr., Berry Brooks describes Popham’s hunt for a Rocky Mountain bighorn in Alberta. In the chapter “Some Stories behind the Records,” Grancel and Betty Fitz include the account of Harry Swank Jr.’s hunt for the new world record Dall sheep collected in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska in 1961.

Baker, Valentine. Clouds in the East: Travels and Adventures on the Perso-Turkoman Frontier. London: Chatto and Windus, 1876. 8vo xii + 376 pp., frontis, color plates, 3 folding maps in rear pocket. Green cloth with pictorial gilt stamping.Among his military and exploration adventures in the region, Baker includes a chapter detailing his stalks after mouflon and ibex near Mount Elburz in Persia (Iran). The author was the younger brother of famous African explorer Sir Samuel White Baker.

Baldwin, J[ohn] H[enry]. Large and Small Game of Bengal and the North-Western Provinces of India. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876. 8vo., xxiv + 380 pp. + 3 pp. ads., frontis, illustrations. Dark green cloth with pictorial gilt stamping. In this classic on hunting in India, Baldwin includes notes on his hunts after Ovis ammon in Tibet, as well as his hunting experiences with tahr, serow, and goral, though he doesn’t detail specific locations.

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and Crockett Awards. Missoula: Boone and Crockett Club, 2006. 8vo., 350 pp., photos. Pictorial softcover.Among the stories collected from the Boone and Crockett Club’s Big Game Awards Program is David Mueller’s hunt for mountain goat on Cleveland Peninsula, Alaska; Gernot Wober’s hunt for a trophy mountain goat in the Bella Coola region, British Columbia; James R. Weatherly’s successful stalk of a bighorn ram in Granite County, Montana; Mavis Lorenz’s hunt for bighorn, also in Granite County; Armand Johnson’s bag of a bighorn ram in Sander’s County, Montana; Lester Kish’s hunt for bighorn in Deer Lodge County, Montana; Arthur Dubs’s successful stalk of a desert bighorn ram in Graham County, Arizona; and James M. Peek’s hunt near Tuchodi River, British Columbia, for a Stone ram.

Bannon, A. H. A Hunter’s Summer in Yukon Territory. Columbus, OH: privately printed by F. B. Toothaker, 1911. 12mo., 48 pp., photo plates. Softcover. In this rare work, Bannon and two companions traveled up the Pelly River to the mouth of the Macmillan River, then up the Macmillan to the sheep-hunting grounds east of Selkirk. They bagged a variety of big game including Dall sheep.

Banolu, Niyazi Ahmet. Turkey, a Sportsman’s Paradise. Ankara, Turkey: The Press, Broadcasting & Tourism Department, 1958. 8vo., 63 pp., photos, drawings. Softcover. Translated with annota-tions by Malcom Burr.A comprehensive survey of the game mammals and birds of Turkey, with general information on wild sheep, chamois, and eight pages devoted to the “ibex” or wild goat—its distribution, description, and excellent natural history account by Professor Ali Wahby. Also included is a successful hunt of a nine-year-old trophy in the Balan Mountains by the author, and another account by an army officer of a successful hunt in the Botan Valley in Siirt.

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Bare, Lloyd. High Country Hunting. Minneapolis: Hunter’s Infor-mation Series, North American Hunting Club, 1996. 8vo., 279 pp., photos. Wine-red, paper-covered boards with gilt stamping and a color photo inset.Bare provides an interesting chapter on the history of sheep hunting, then propels the reader through additional chapters on hunting each of the Grand Slam species. He collected Dall sheep in the Pelly Mountains of the Yukon, Stone sheep above the Tuchodi Valley in northeastern British Columbia, bighorn in the Alberta Rockies, and a trophy desert bighorn ram in Nevada. He also includes Linda Strong’s successful hunt for Dall sheep with a bow in the Northwest Territories, and his hunt for a mountain goat in British Columbia.

Barnett, David. The Upper Yukon: Another Look at Wilderness Hunting. Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1983. 8vo., xviii + 195 pp., photo plates. Blue leatherette with decorative gilt stamping, slipcase. Limited edition of 1,000 signed and numbered copies. Foreword by John Batten.Barnett provides the historical background to hunting in the Upper Yukon with chapters on the likes of Charles Sheldon, Frederick Selous, and Samuel Woodfill with an additional note of his own successful hunt for Dall sheep on Mount Walcott.

Barr, Basil D. Big Game Hunting in Alaska, Arizona and North Carolina. Johnson City, TN: privately printed by the Over-mountain Press, ca. 1982. 8vo., viii + 150 pp., photos. Pic-torial softcover.Among Barr’s big-game hunting adventures are collecting Dall sheep in Alaska in 1947; shooting a 37-inch ram in the same area in 1948; a successful goat hunt in the Chena River region in 1949; successful hunts for Dall sheep in the Wrangell Mountains in 1953, in the Granite Creek area, and in the Black Glacier Rapids region in 1963; as well as several unsuccessful trips.

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Barrett, Peter, ed. Great True Hunts. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1967. 4to., 278 pp., color and b&w illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket.In this anthology of big-game hunting stories, Elgin Gates recounts hunting Marco Polo sheep in the Pamirs; Peter Barrett notes a driven hunt for pasang, the shah of Iran’s successful shooting of two red sheep, and Barrett’s collecting a red sheep in the Elburz Mountains north of Tehran.

Barsness, John. The Life of the Hunt. Bozeman: Wilderness Adventures Press, 1995. 8vo., 188 pp., illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket. Included in these reminiscences of the author’s far-flung sporting trips is a chapter on his wife’s successful hunt for a bighorn ewe (she drew a ewe tag) in the Montana Rockies.

Bates, Keith Winfield, ed. Safaris Revisited: The Best of Safari Magazine of the 1970s. Tucson: Safari Club International, 1991. 8vo., 228 pp., photos. Pictorial gilt stamping on leatherette, dust jacket. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies. While most of these stories culled from Safari magazine are set in Africa, there are several sheep-hunting adventures. Tillman Cavert Jr. recalls his hunt for bighorns in Alberta near the Jasper National Park; Butch White details his hunt for bharal in Nepal; George Johnson stalks argali in the Low Altai of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert at age 71; Dr. Carol Mann III hunts a bighorn in the Cassiar Mountains successfully; Bill Wheless collects a Grand Slam; and C. J. McElroy accomplishes a Grand Slam in a single year.

Bates, Robert H. Mountain Man. The Story of Belmore Browne: Hunter, Explorer, Artist, Naturalist, and Preserver of Our Northern Wilderness. Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1988. 4to., xix + 425 pp., color frontis, photo plates. Blue leatherette with decorative gilt stamping, slipcase. Limited edition of 1,000 signed and numbered copies.

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Included in this biography of Browne are three detailed accounts of sheep hunting reprinted from magazine articles. These include Dall sheep hunting in Alaska with Andrew J. Stone, another article with casual mention of hunting Stone sheep in British Columbia, and another of Dall sheep hunting in the vicinity of Mount McKinley. Browne was a member of expeditions to collect zoological specimens for museums.

Batin, Christopher. Hunting in Alaska: A Comprehensive Guide. Fair-banks: Alaska Hunter, 1987. 8vo., 415 pp., photos, illustra-tions. Pictorial softcover. Foreword by Craig Boddington. Batin provides a detailed chapter on Dall sheep, complete with information on which units in the various Alaskan ranges produce the most sheep, but with little in terms of hunting experiences. Similarly, he offers a chapter on mountain goats, this time with brief instances of his hunts.

Batten, John, ed. The Best of Sheep Hunting. Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1981. 8vo. Vol. 1: 312 pp., color frontis, color illus-trations. Vol. 2: 272 pp., photo plates. Red leatherette with decorative gilt stamping, slipcase. Limited to 1,000 num-bered and signed copies.The bulk of this excellent anthology of sheep-hunting stories are culled from books by the likes of Charles Sheldon, Elim Demidoff, Theodore Roosevelt, etc., but also includes a story by Art and Dick Carlsberg titled “Stalking Strange Sheep in Strange Places,” which appeared in the Journal of the Southern California Safari Club, 1978. Dick Carlsberg recounts his hunt for Tibetan argali in Ladakh, with both brothers’ successful hunts for Siberian snow sheep in the Verkhoyansk Mountains.

Batten, John. Skyline Pursuits. Clinton NJ: Amwell Press, 1981. 8vo., xiii + 318 pp., color frontis, photo plates, and illustrations. Gray leatherette with decorative gilt stamping, slipcase. Limited edition of 1,000 signed and numbered copies.

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Batten relates his adventures collecting the Grand Slam of Sheep in North America; urials and bezoar goat in Iran; argali in the Gobi Desert; ibex in Mongolia; Marco Polo argali in the Afghan Pamir; and tahr and chamois in New Zealand.

Batty, J. H. How to Hunt and Trap, Containing Full Instructions for Hunting the Buffalo, Elk, Moose, Deer, Antelope. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1878. 8vo., 223 pp., illustrations. Brown cloth with pictorial gilt stamping. The Porter & Coates edition includes a short chapter on hunting bighorn sheep with the author’s experiences bagging rams in the Sweet Water Grass Hills of the Rockies and on Buffalo Mountain, Colorado. This chapter was not included in the edition published by Albert Cogswell (New York) in 1878.

Baum, James E. Savage Abyssinia. New York: J. H. Sears & Co., 1927. 8vo., xxi + 336 pp., frontis, photo plates, map end papers. Orange cloth, dust jacket. Reprinted by Grosset & Dunlap (New York) as Unknown Ethiopia, 1935. British edition published by Cassell (London).Representing the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Baum, Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, Louis Aggasiz Fuertes, and others traveled to Abyssinia to study its fauna and collect specimens. After crossing the Wabi Shebeli, the expedition headed toward the Simen Highlands where they successfully stalked ibex.

Beach, William N. In the Shadow of Mount McKinley. New York: Derrydale Press, 1931. Royal 8vo., xiii + 289 pp., color frontis, photo plates, endpaper maps, folding map. Blue cloth with pictorial gilt stamping, dust jacket. Limited edition of 750 numbered copies. Beach made several expeditions to the Mount McKinley region to study, photograph, and hunt Dall sheep. During trips to the north side of the Alaskan Range to Mount Dall, he collected several rams. On another expedition to Mount

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McKinley and the Tonzona Basin, he bagged additional sheep. He also includes a long chapter on American big-game animals that details his hunts after bighorn in the Shoshone Mountains of Wyoming and in the Rockies of Alberta. There is additional mention of his stalks after mountain goat in the Lillooet district of British Columbia and in the Cassiar Range.

Bear, Fred. Fred Bear’s Field Notes. New York: Doubleday, 1976. Royal 8vo., 288 pp., text photos. Gray paper-covered boards with mustard paper-covered spine, dust jacket.A world-renowned archer, Bear describes numerous hunts at home and abroad in diary form. While in the Yukon in 1956, he bagged a mountain goat above the Herndon River. During a 1957 hunt to the Coldfish Lake region of British Columbia, he collected a bighorn ram. While in Alaska’s Little Delta, he took a Dall ram.

Berlinger, Barney. Danger Down the Sights. New York: Vantage Press, 1964. 8vo., 202 pp., photo plates. Black cloth with red titles, dust jacket. Berlinger hunted in North America, Africa, and India. While in the Fraser River region of British Columbia, he collected a mountain goat.

Bergerat, Emile. A Wild Sheep Chase: Notes of a Little Philosophic Journey in Corsica. London: Macmillan, 1894. 8vo., 315 pp. + 20 pp. ads., illustrations. Burgundy cloth with pictorial gilt stamping.Though the title would indicate considerable sporting ad-venture, there is only a cursory description of Bergerat’s failed hunt for mouflon in Corsica.

Bergman, Sten. In Korean Wilds & Villages. London: John Gifford Ltd, 1938. 8vo., 232 pp., frontis, photo plates, folding map. Burgundy cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket.Bergman traveled to remote regions of Korea where he ex-

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plored the land, observed the people at work and leisure, and also enjoyed a bit of goral hunting near the Tumen River.

Bernard, Duane. The Trail of a Sportsman. Stevensville, MT: Stoneydale Press, 2005. 8vo., 152 pp., photos. Pictorial softcover. Bernard hunted Dall sheep in the Alaska Range, Rocky Mountain goat in British Columbia, and bighorn in Oregon.

Bernocchi, A. Hunter of Dreams and Reality. Milan: privately printed, 1995. 8vo., 280 pp., color and b&w photos. Clothbound with gilt stamping. Limited to 500 numbered copies.Among this Italian sportsman’s shooting memoirs is his hunt after Nubian ibex. The text is in Italian and English.

(Bertrand, Alfred). Alfred Bertrand, Explorer and Captain of Cavalry. Compiled by Alice Bertrand, author’s wife. London: Religious Tract Society, 1926. 8vo., x + 238 pp., frontis, photo plates, map. Red cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket. A Swiss army captain, Bertrand was most notable for his explorations in Africa. Of Asian sporting interest are his hunts after ibex and bear in Kashmir. Alice Bertrand compiled the life of her husband from his notes and journals.

Bethell, Lt.-Col. L[eonard] A[rthur], ed. ‘Blackwood’ Tales from the Outposts: Shikar. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons Ltd, 1933. 12mo., [1] + 310 pp. Blue cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket. Among the tales appearing in this volume, which were originally published in Blackwood’s Magazine, is an account of takin shooting in eastern Tibet by F. N. Bailey.

Biddle, Brig.-Gen. Nicholas. Personal Memoirs: An Autobiography Including a Personal History and Accounts of Various Cruises and Hunting Expeditions. Lititz, PA: privately printed by Sutter House, 1975. 8vo., xiii + 353 pp. Clothbound with gilt stamping, dust jacket. Biddle, a distinguished military officer, recounts his hunts

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for Stone sheep in 1928 in the Cassiars of British Columbia where he shot two mountain goats and two rams. He also recounts his hunt in 1929 to the Alaska Peninsula where he shot two Dall sheep. On the last page of the book he reproduces the measurements of his trophy heads, including a ram and a mountain goat, as listed in the 1939 Boone & Crockett record book.

Bigelow, Henry B. Memories of a Long and Active Life. Cambridge, MA privately printed at the Cosmos Press, 1964. 8vo., 41 pp., frontis, one photo. Burgundy cloth with gilt stamping. While Bigelow recounts the highlights of his life, he only briefly mentions his numerous sporting activities that include taking a bighorn ram in the Rockies.

Bingham, Glenn. Alaskan Sunrise to African Sunset: Hunting Adventures in the Great Outdoors. Bloomington: iUniverse Publications, 2008. 8vo., 187 pp., photos. Pictorial softcover.The author details his numerous hunting adventures in Alaska and Africa including his successful stalk of Dall sheep in the Brooks Range.

Boddington, Craig. Campfires and Game Trails. Piscataway, NJ: Winchester Press. 1985. 8vo., 295 pp., photos, maps. Black cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket.This book includes general information on North American sheep and mountain goat, but with only a brief description of the author’s hunt for Stone sheep.

Boddington, Craig. Fair Chase in North America. Missoula: Boone & Crockett Club, 2004. 8vo., 256 pp., color frontis, color photos, color drawings. Black cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket. Also issued in a limited edition of 100 copies. Boddington features a chapter on bighorn sheep with both an unsuccessful hunt near Spirit Lake in the Mon-tana Rockies and a successful hunt with Ron Dube south of Cody, Wyoming. He has a chapter on desert bighorn,

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securing a ram in Sonora; a successful hunt for mountain goat in southern British Columbia; and several vignettes of stalking Dall sheep in the Yukon and Northwest Terri-tories. There is also a previously published story by Arthur Popham on his hunt for desert bighorn.

Boddington, Craig & Peter Flack, eds. African Hunter II. Long Beach: Safari Press, 2004. 4to., x + 606 pp., color and b&w photos, maps. Limited edition of 500 numbered and signed copies with the first 25 copies bound in Moroccan goat leather with a clamshell box; numbers 26 to 500 in green cloth with gilt stamping and slipcase. Second edition in green simulated leather with gilt stamping, dust jacket. This comprehensive review of big-game hunting opportu-nities in Africa also features chapters by noted sportsmen. Dimitri Perdikis writes of his hunt for Barbary sheep in Sudan’s Nubian Desert. Henry van den Broecke describes his stalk of Nubian ibex in Egypt’s Red Sea Hills. Chris Kinsey also submitted a story on hunting Barbary sheep in the Ennedi Mountains of Chad.

Boddington, Craig. The Perfect Shot, North America: Shot Placement for North American Big Game. Long Beach: Safari Press, 2002. 8vo. 215 pp. color and b&w photos. Green vinyl with gilt stamping, dust jacket. Boddington presents a variety of game-shot scenarios including where to place a bullet for all of the American sheep species.

Boecher, Roy C. “Born Under a Lucky Star.” An Account of Good Fortune as Evidenced by a Lifetime of Hunting Experiences Around the Globe. No place: privately printed, 1979. 8vo., xiv + 167 pp., photos. Blue cloth with decorative gilt stamping.A former Oklahoma senator, Boecher enjoyed all manner of outdoor sports worldwide, including hunting Dall sheep in the Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska.

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Bogner, Gary. Bowhunting for the North American Twenty-Eight: Hunting All Varieties of North American Game. Long Beach: Safari Press, 2007. 8vo., 251 pp., photos, and illustrations. Wibalin paper with black stamping, dust jacket.Noted archer Bogner includes trips into Alaska to bag Dall sheep with both bow and rifle and a hunt in British Columbia for bighorn sheep; he goes after desert bighorn in the southwest and Stone sheep in Alaska. This was Bogner’s quest to collect trophies of all American big game with a bow.

Bond, James H. From out of the Yukon. Portland: Binfords & Mort, Publishers, 1948. 8vo., x + 220 pp., photos. Blue cloth with pictorial stamping in black, dust jacket. The author details hunting in a variety of Yukon locales, including his successful hunt after Dall sheep in the vicinity of Braine Creek and the Wind River.

Bond Jim. America’s Number One Trophy. Portland: Metropolitan Printing (privately printed), 1950. 4to., 43 pp., photos. Pic-torial softcover. Bond considered wild sheep to rank as the number one trophy in North America; this booklet includes his hunt for Dall sheep in the Yukon and mountain goat.

Bond, Jim. The Rifleman in Alaska. Portland, OR: privately printed, 1953. 4to., 46 pp. + 2 pp. ads, photos. Pictorial softcover.Among the game Bond hunted in Alaska was Dall sheep.

Bond, Jim. The Happy Hunting Grounds. Portland, OR: Metropoli-tan Printing (privately printed), 1954. 4to., 51 pp., photos. Pictorial softcover.Included in this series of Bond’s adventures is a hunt after Dall sheep in the Hart River region of the Yukon.

Bond, Jim. Hold That Tiger. Portland, OR: Metropolitan Printing (pri-vately printed), 1958. 4to., 100 pp., photos. Pictorial softcover.

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While most of this book concerns tiger hunting, there is also a chapter on bighorn sheep, with smaller mention of Dall sheep.

Boner, Charles. Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria. London: Chapman & Hall, 1853. 8vo., viii + 410 pp., frontis, tinted plates. Green cloth with pictorial gilt stamping. A new edition was published by Chapman and Hall in 1860 (xiii + 446 pp.) as Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria and in the Tyrol. This is an entertaining account of the author’s hunting trips after chamois in the Bavarian highlands, including sport on the Kremmersberg, the Oesterberg, and other locales. The tinted lithographs are especially evocative of the sport and the age. The new edition of 1860 detailed additional jaunts after chamois in Austria’s Tyrol.

Boner, Charles. Forest Creatures. London: Longman, Green, Long-man, and Roberts, 1861. Crown 8vo., viii + 245 pp. + 2 pp. ads., frontis, illustrated plates. Green cloth with pictorial gilt stamping. Boner includes several instances of hunting chamois in Bavaria and the Tyrol in a chapter on “Hints to Sportsmen.”

Bookman, David P. Totem of the Terrible Bear and Other Hunting Adventures. Hagerstown, MD: privately printed by HBP Printing and Graphics, 2003. 4to., 460 pp., color photos. Brown leatherette with pictorial gilt stamping, dust jacket.The author recounts his numerous hunting trips that include stalking mountain goat and Stone sheep near Hoole Creek, British Columbia; various abortive attempts after bighorn before finally bagging one in the Alberta Rockies; and hunting Dall sheep in the Ogilvie Mountains of the Yukon.

Bradley, J. R. Hunting Big Game in Far Northwest British Columbia. New York: privately printed at Mail and Express Job Print, 1904. 8vo., 52 pp. Green cloth with pictorial gilt stamping.

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A rare work published in a small number detailing the author’s hunting trip after white sheep and mountain goat in the Stikine River country. The author suffered with a badly injured knee during the expedition, which curtailed some of his adventures.

Bradley, W. Z. Outdoor Wife: Five years of Big Game Hunting in Western U.S. and Canada. Lititz, PA: privately printed, 1957. Crown 8vo., 63 pp., photos. Pictorial softcover.‘Brad’ Bradley, owner and operator of a hunting-supply business, recounts various trips with his wife, Elsie, and family in pursuit of the Grand Slam and other big game. He includes a successful hunt for Dall sheep after a 21-day pack-train jaunt in the Kluane Lake region of the Yukon in 1951; Elsie bagging a Dall ram in the Kluane Lake area in 1953; Brad’s hunt for Stone sheep in northern British Columbia; a fruitful trip for a desert bighorn in Arizona in 1954; and a successful hunt for bighorn in Wyoming.

Brady, Bruce. Bruce Brady’s Game Trails. Leland, MS: Mississippi River Publishing Co., 1990. 8vo., 264 pp., photo plates. Blue cloth with argent (silver) stamping, slipcase. Limited to 500 numbered and signed copies. Trade edition in dust jacket. Among Brady’s experiences hunting a variety of North American game is his hunt for desert bighorn in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada, and for Dall sheep in the Brooks Range, Alaska.

Brakefield, Tom. Hunting Big-Game Trophies: A North American Guide. New York: Outdoor Life/E. P. Dutton, 1976. 8vo., 446 pp., photos, maps. Brown cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket.While Brakefield includes a detailed chapter on hunting wild sheep, he does not include any of his adventures. However, his chapter on stalking mountain goat features his successful hunt in the Cassiars of British Columbia.

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Brandt, Capt. John. H., ed. Asian Hunter. Mesilla, NM: Wild Sheep and Goat International, 1989. 4to., 420 pp., photos, drawings. Silver cloth, dust jacket.In this compendium of Asian big-game hunting, Ernest Righetti describes two East Caucasian tur hunts—one unsuccessful and another taken during a driven hunt. There is a secondhand account of Fred Fortier’s successful Marco Polo sheep hunt in Tajikistan. Israel Torres relates his hunt for bharal on the Burhan Buudai Shan in Tibet; Bill Pool relates a successful stalk for Altai argali in Mongolia; and John Batten describes a Gobi argali hunt in Mongolia. Also included is Stuart Williams on a bezoar or wild goat hunt in Turkey; Rudolf Sand on bagging a Chiltan markhor in Pakistan and a Himalayan tahr hunt in Nepal; Gary Ingersoll on hunting urial north of Karachi, Pakistan; Bruno Scherrer’s trek after Marco Polo sheep in the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan; Ingrid Poole’s Transcaspian urial hunt in northeastern Iran; and John Batten on shooting Armenian sheep in northwestern Iran.

Brandt, Capt. John H. Soul of the Hunter: A Half-Century of Big Game Hunting. Alamosa, CO: Jungle Tracks Publishing Co., 1995. 8vo., 308 pp., photos. Brown cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket. Captain Brandt’s international big-game hunting took him to a Transcaspian urial and bezoar goat in northeastern Iran; a pioneering snow sheep hunt in Chersky Mountains in Siberia; Stone sheep in the Cassiar Mountains; Dall sheep in the Yukon; bighorn in the Trickle Mountain area of Colorado; desert bighorn in Sonora, Mexico; and a hunt for a Beceite Iberian ibex.

Brinkman, A[rthur]. The Rifle in Cashmere: A Narrative of Shooting Expeditions in Ladak, Cashmere, Punjaub, etc.; with Advice on Travelling, Shooting, and Stalking; to Which are Added Notes on Army Reform and Indian Politics. London: Smith,

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Elder and Co, 1862. 8vo. x + 244 pp. + 16 pp. ads., frontis, 1 illustrated plate. Blue cloth with pictorial gilt stamping.A scarce book, though it appeared in two editions, detailing the author’s numerous hunts for a variety of game in the region. He notes hunting bharal in Ladakh, Ovis ammon near Lutkum, and stalking ibex and markhor in various locations.

Brisbin, Gen. James S. Brisbin’s Stories of the Plains: Or, Twelve Years Among the Wild Indians, Chiefly from the Diaries and Manuscripts of George P. Belden, the Adventurous White Chief, Soldier, Hunter, Trapper and Guide. St. Louis: An-chor Publishing, 1881. 8vo., 541 pp., frontis, illustrated plates. Brown cloth with pictorial gilt stamping. Brisbin details his own adventures as well as those of George Belden tramping through the wilderness, meeting and fighting various Indian tribes and hunting, including a successful hunt for bighorn sheep in the Rockies.

Brown, Dolores Cline. Yukon Trophy Trails. Sidney, Canada: Gray’s Publishing Ltd., 1971. 8vo., 213 pp., end-paper maps. Gray paper-covered boards, dust jacket.The author married a well-known Yukon guide, and she recounts their various hunting adventures, including hunts for Dall sheep in the Mayo area.

Brown, Erwin W. Hunting the World: The Adventures of Erwin W. Brown. No place: privately printed, 2009. 8vo., 308 pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Pictorial laminated boards.A former 3M executive, Brown hunted worldwide for a variety of big game. He includes chapters on his pursuit of Stone sheep and mountain goat in the Rockies, Dall sheep in the Alaska Range, bighorn sheep in California, desert bighorn, Beceite ibex in Spain, Gobi argali in Mongolia, Transcaspian urials in Turkmenistan, and chamois and tahr on New Zealand’s southern Alps.

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Brown, Michael. Straight Shooting. Houston: Alpha Publishing Group, 1995. 8vo., 452 pp., photo plates. Green leatherette with pictorial gilt stamping.Brown wrote several privately printed books detailing his hunts in Africa and Australia, but in this work he concentrates more on North America. Among his sporting trips is a successful hunt after Dall sheep in Alaska’s Wrangell Mountains.

Browne, Belmore. The Conquest of Mount McKinley: The Story of Three Expeditions Through the Alaskan Wilderness to Mount McKinley, North America’s Highest and Most Inaccessible Mountain. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913. 8vo., xvii + 381 pp., color frontis, photo plates (some color), folding map. Brown cloth with pictorial gilt, stamping, dust jacket.In this first-rate work of mountaineering and adventure, Browne’s expeditions sought to reach the summit of Alaska’s Mount McKinley. During one attempt, he also hunted big game near the Muldrow Glacier and succeeded in bagging several Dall sheep.

Brush, James A. The Silent Hunter: A Bow Hunting Legend. Galesville, WI: Brush Trophy Room Museum, 2001. 4to., 119 pp., color photos. Black leatherette with color photo inset.An expert bow hunter, Brush hunted wild game in a variety of locales including Africa. Of sheep hunting interest are his successful hunts for Dall sheep in Alaska and bighorn sheep and mountain goat in the Rockies.

Buchanan, Angus. Exploration of Aïr: Out of the World North of Nigeria. London: John Murray, 1921. 8vo., xxiii + 258 pp., frontis, photo plates, map. Blue cloth with pictorial stamping, dust jacket. U.S. edition published by Dutton (New York).Trekking into the dry, rocky scrublands of central Niger, Bu-chanan collected a variety of zoological specimens; he includes a chapter on hunting Barbary sheep in the Baguezan Mountains.

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Burden, W. Douglas. Look to the Wilderness. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1960. 8vo., xiii + 251 pp., photo plates. Paper-covered boards backed in black cloth and gilt stamping, dust jacket. Burden, a world-renowned adventurer and explorer, relates several hunting trips around the world with details of hunts after argali sheep on the Sino-Mongolian frontier and a chapter on hunting Marco Polo sheep and ibex in the Pamirs.

Burnham, John B. The Rim of Mystery: A Hunter’s Wanderings in Un-known Siberian Asia. New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1929. 8vo., xv + 281 pp., frontis, photo plates, folding map. Red cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket. Burnham set out to prove the existence of mountain sheep on the Chukotsk (Chukchi) Peninsula of northeastern Siberia. Though faced with inclement weather and rough terrain, he collected several specimens of Ovis nivicola.

Burns, Fox. The Roving Outdoorsman. Terre Haute: J. C. Brown Publishing Company, ca. 1965. 8vo., 162 pp., illustrations. Plum cloth gilt, dust jacket.In an unusual account of a Fannin sheep hunt in the Pelly Mountains, Yukon, the author, who was unable to follow his guide over the rough terrain, made the decision to let his guide continue the stalk and shoot the sheep.

Burrard, Major G[erald]. Big Game Hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1925. 8vo., 320 pp., frontis, photo plates, 8 color maps including several folding ones. Dark blue cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket. U.S. edition published by Frederick A. Stokes Company (New York). In this comprehensive work on big-game shooting in the region, Burrard includes advice on both stalking and still hunting. His high-mountain game chapters include hunts for bharal, goral, ibex, markhor, urial, Ovis ammon, and tahr. Each chapter combines the natural history of the game, the terrain where it will be encountered, and the author’s own sporting adventures.

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Burton, Doris (Riggall). Bert Riggall: Mountain Guide Extraordinary. Hanna, Alberta: Gorman & Gorman Ltd., 1990. 4to., 68 pp., photos. Pictorial softcover.Famous Alberta guide and big-game hunter Frank Herbert (Bert) Riggall’s life is recounted in this biography written by his daughter. There are various short references to his guiding on sheep hunts, and there are several photos of Bert and his trophies.

Butler, Bill. The Versatile Trophy Hunter. Basin, WY: privately printed, 1994. 8vo., 208 pp., photos. Pictorial softcover.Butler notes hunting mountain goat and bighorn in the Beartooth Mountains, Montana, with specifics on hunting in Unit 501 for sheep; there are also photos of Iberian ibex and mouflon trophies shot in Spain.

Buxton, Anthony. Travelling Naturalist. London: Collins, 1948. 8vo., 224 pp., frontis, photo plates, map endpapers. Red cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket. Combining sport in Asia Minor, Britain, Scandinavia, and the Caucasus, Buxton provides an interesting medley of shooting and fishing experiences; these include his hunts for mouflon in the Murad Dagh of Turkey, chamois and tur in the Caucasus, and chamois in the Pyrenees.

Buxton, Edward North. Short Stalks: or, Hunting Camps North, South, East, and West. London: Edward Stanford, 1892. 8vo., xiii + 405 pp., illustrated plates. Tan cloth with pictorial black stamping. Deluxe edition bound in full vellum. U.S. edition published by G. P. Putnam’s (New York). Buxton enjoyed sport in numerous venues, including hunting mouflon in Sardinia and chamois in the Swiss Alps. He also stalked ibex in the Maimun Dagh in Turkey; Barbary sheep among the southern Atlas Mountains of Algeria; and bighorn sheep in Wyoming. In addition, he includes chapters on hunting ibex and chamois in the Pyrenees.

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Buxton, Edward North. Short Stalks—Second Series: Comprising Trips in Somaliland, Sinai, the Eastern Desert of Egypt, Crete, the Carpathian Mountains and Dagestan. London: Edward Stanford, 1898. 8vo., xi + 226 pp., frontis, photo plates, folding map in front pocket + folding map in rear pocket. Tan cloth with pictorial black stamping. In yet another work of big-game hunting adventures, Buxton traveled to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula after ibex; there is also a hunt for tur in Dagestan. He was unlucky in his pursuit of ibex in the Kittar Mountains near the Red Sea.

B[uxton], H[annah] M[aud]; C[lare] E[mily] B[uxton], & T[heresa] B[uxton]. (E. N. Buxton, ed. On Either Side of the Red Sea, with Illustrations of the Granite Ranges of the Eastern Desert of Egypt, and of Sinai. London: Edward Stanford, 1895. 8vo., viii + 163 pp., frontis, photo plates. Green cloth with pictorial gilt stamping. Introduction by E. N. Buxton. A series of letters written by Edward North Buxton’s family members who accompanied him to the Kittar Mountains and Sinai Peninsula in 1893 and 1894 to hunt ibex. The authors did not participate firsthand in the hunts.

Byroade, Henry A. Ovis Poli, the Marco Polo Sheep. Rangoon, Burma: privately printed at the Rangoon Gazette Ltd. by U Khin Pe Gyi & Mr. John R. Higgins, embassy of U.S.A., Rangoon, ca. 1965. 12mo., 32 pp., frontis maps, photos. Pictorial softcover. Henry Byroade was United States ambassador to Afghanistan from 1959 to 1963. He undertook a hunt to the Wakhan Cor-ridor of Afghanistan in August 1959 after obtaining special permission from the Afghan government. After going as far as his vehicle could take him, he traveled for three days on horseback to get to the hunting camp in the Tuliboi Valley. He collected two young Marco Polo argalis.

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