Hey gents
Can someone recommend a good book/books on the hunting experiences and life of Teddy. It does'nt necessarily have to be all hunting either.
Thanks!

Perry

African Game Trails

Good Hunting, in pursuit of western big Game

A quick search reveals all of them

Took the better part of 3 years for me to get through Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. I had a hard time reading the many descriptions of launching bullets (and wounding game) at animals half a mile away with open sights and his notoriously poor eyesight - ad nauseum. I know his was a time of transition between the era when animals were seemingly never-ending and were considered nothing more than a target or an economic resource - and the more modern way of looking at wildlife as a renewable resource that must be carefully managed, but reading about his trip to bag a couple of the very few remaining bison before they were all gone is unsettling.

On the other hand, African Game Trails was interesting and well written. Many have taken issue with the number of animals he killed on his collecting trip, but the book is a good window into Safaris of the time period.

The River of Doubt, written about him by Candice Millard was excellent. Wilderness Warrior (Douglas Brinkley) was insightful.

I enjoyed African Game Trails

Roosevelt lived during a time both in America and in Africa when hunterscwere viewed quite differently than they are viewed today.

Judging TR by todays "Standards" accomplishes nothing!

Enjoy reading about a time that none of us will ever experience.

Way back I read Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, and African Game Trails. Most people who read of say they have, African Game Trails, don't understand he was not there for himself and his son. But was shooting stuff for 2 or so Museums, and for science, in that animals and birds etc. not known were also killed and sent back . JJ Audubon also shot his stuff to draw pictures of. The animals TDR shot in Africa were skinned and such and sent right back to the US, so not spoiled or anything. Am pretty sure the meat would have been, as it is now, given to the "natives", though don't know that for sure. There's one book about his hunting in the Big Horn mountains which is good, though it's been a 100 years since I read it. Also, the book on his trip through the Brazilian Jungle, in which he came close to dying, is super, and shows you just how bad things were, even on the best of trips. I'll get the name of the book. GLDwight who posts on here has read it I think, as we exchange books.

Through the Bazilian Wilderness and Ranch Life and Hunting Tales I believe the other is. In Ranch life he had run in's with Indians as they still around, and not "tamed" yet. If you haven't been to his ranch in N. Dakota, need to do so.

On Amazon you can download to your Kindle most of these books for free, btw.

African Game Trails was written from the viewpoint of someone who thought of themselves as being better than just some slob hunting for sport.They were after all killing for scientific reasons which puts them above the common hunter.
WD Bell was The Man!!!!An unrepentant sinner who made no excuses for dealing out death!!