Identifier: camerashotsatbig00wall (find matches)
Title: Camera shots at big game
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Wallihan, Allen Grant, 1859- (from old catalog) Wallihan, Mary Augusta (Higgins) "Mrs. A. G. Wallihan," joint author. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Animals Animal behavior Game and game-birds. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ppi, but nowadays it would be a simple impossibilityfor any man to take of them such pictures as Mr. Wallihanhas taken of the Colorado cougars. Moreover, even wherecougars are plentiful, the photographer might work a lifetimebefore getting such a remarkable picture as that of the cougarjumping in mid-air. As I know from practical experience, itis exceedingly difficult, even when the cougar has been treed,to get a really fine photograph, as it is not possible to choosethe conditions of ground and light in advance. Mr. Wallihans hunting was in northwestern Colorado andwestern Wyoming — regions where I have often followed thegame he describes. There are no whitetail deer in the coun-try he covered, the buffalo were extinct before he began workwith his camera, and he never had luck with bears. But hisseries of elk, antelope, blacktail and mountain lion picturesleave little to be desired. It is, by the way, difficult to deter-mine whether to use the ordinary vernacular names of these Pi,
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