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"If I had not spent my year in North Dakota, I would never have become President of the United States," declared Theodore Roosevelt. The future statesman took his first steps toward the highest office in the land in the Dakota Badlands of the 1880s, where he began his transformation from aristocrat to democrat. Roosevelt left his home in the East as Theodore, but he returned as "Teddy," a rugged outdoorsman and soon-to-be hero of the Rough Riders....
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Follow Boone and Crockett Club member W. Douglas Burden and his wife on their expedition to the lost world of the Dutch East Indies in the 1920s in search of what many considered direct descendants of dinosaurs and what others thought may be true dragons-the impressive and fierce Komodo dragon (Varanus Komodoensis). Not only did their party find the giant lizards, they were able harvest many for display in museums as well as capture live specimens,...
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Follow Boone and Crockett Club member William T. Hornaday on his month-long expedition in November of 1907 to the uncharted lavascape of southern Arizona and northern Mexico to an area known as the Pinacate region. Hornaday is joined by John M. Phillips who had accompanied him two years earlier in the Great North, chronicled in "Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies". You'll once again revel in their adventures with the author's entertaining prose as...
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Follow Boone and Crockett Club member and explorer Frederick Courteney Selous on his hunting adventures for moose and caribou, and a vast array of other game, primarily by traversing rivers and lakes by canoe. Experience a first-hand account his first moose hunt in Canada, along with adventures in caribou hunting in Newfoundland and the Yukon Territory. He was accompanied by B&C members, Charles Sheldon, William Osgood, and Carl Rungius throughout...
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