Front matter
Reading edition
In the forest of California President Roosevelt and party, including Secretary Moody and Governor Pardee, after crossing the old trail of “The Wilderness Hunter”
The Works of Theodore Roosevelt In Fourteen Volumes
Illustrated
The Wilderness Hunter
Executive Edition
Published with the permission of the President through special arrangement with the century co., messrs. Charles Scribner’s sons, and G. P. Putnam’s Sons
The Co-operative Publication Society
New York and London
Copyright 1889 By G. P. Putnam’s Sons
This edition is published under arrangement with G. P. Putnam’s Sons, of New York and London.
To E. K. R.
“They saw the silences Move by and beckon; saw the forms, The very beards, of burly storms, And heard them talk like sounding seas.... They saw the snowy mountains rolled And heaved along the nameless lands Like mighty billows; saw the gold Of awful sunsets; saw the blush Of sudden dawn, and felt the hush Of heaven when the day sat down And hid his face in dusky hands.” —Joaquin Miller
“In vain the speeding of shyness; In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods.... ... where geese nip their food with short jerks, Where sundown shadows lengthen over the limitless prairie, Where herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles, far and near, Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and ice-clad trees.... The moose, large as an ox, cornered by hunters, plunging with his forefeet, the hoofs as sharp as knives.... The blazing fire at night, the sweet taste of supper, the talk, the bed of hemlock boughs, and the bear-skin.” —Walt Whitman