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• Title:Fifteen years' sport and life in the hunting grounds of western America and British Columbia / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. Illustrated by seventy-seven photographs, including the best trophies of North America big game killed by English and American sportsmen, with table of measurements and notes. With three specially prepared maps of the northwest coast of the United States, British Columbia and the Kootenay district.
  
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• Author/Creator:Baillie-Grohman, William A. (William Adolph), 1851-1921.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Baillie-Grohman, F. (Florence)
  Lingren, Arthur James, former owner.
  Helen and Philip Akrigg Collection.
  Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection.
  Harry Hawthorn Collection.
  
• Published/Created:London : H. Cox, 1900.
  

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  • Call Number: F5804.3 .B2
    
  • Number of Items:3
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: F5804.3 .B2
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: F5804.3 .B2
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Hunting--United States.
  West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
  British Columbia--Description and travel.
  
• Description:xii, 403 p. : ill., fold. maps, plates. ; 25 cm
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Local note:UBC Library has a copy in the Helen and Philip Akrigg Collection.
  UBC Library has a copy in The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection.
  UBC Library has a copy with a letter from the author to a former owner, Harry Worcester Smith, inserted inside front cover.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Travelling in the Western hunting grounds
  The slaughter of big game and the game laws of America
  The wapiti, its antlers and its chase
  The antelope-goat of Pacific Slope Mountains, and its chase
  The moose, caribou, and deer of the Pacific Slope
  The bighorn and the antelope
  The bears and bison of North America
  The seal and other fur-bearing animals of the Pacific Coast
  The salmon of the Pacific Coast
  How Kootenay emerged from its wild state
  Early days in Kootenay
  Running a saw-mill and store up country
  Path-finding in Kootenay
  Some personal recollections of Victoria
  The yellow and white agony: a chapter on Western servants / by Mrs. Baillie-Grohman
  Appendix.