Identifier: pussywantscorner00leff (find matches)
Title: Pussy wants a corner in this book, which reviews the delights of the World's fair and contains a series of articles depicting the pleasures of field sports ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Leffingwell, William Bruce. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Chicago)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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cellent there, and game of many kinds is to be found. Gen.John C. Fremont, the Pathfinder, made his celebrated trip through the Rocky Mountainsin 1842-44, which was possibly the first introduction of Du Ponts gunpowder in that sectionof the country. The game laws of Colorado for the open season are: Deer, elks, and antelopes which have horns, August ist to November ist. Not more than one deer,antelope, or elk allowed to be had in possession at any one time. The killing for food is limited to theimmediate and necessary use of the person killing the animal, game bird, or fish. Killing for market orsale prohibited. Hounding prohibited. Exportation of game and fish prohibited. Mountain-sheep,bisons, or buffaloes, protected. Wild turkeys, prairie-chickens, grouse, quails, and pheasants, August 15thto November ist. Ducks, brants, geese, swans, and other water-fowl, September ist to May ist. Doves,July 15th to October ist. Trout or any food fish for immediate use, June ist to December ist. 7
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THE CALIFORNIA STATE BUILDING. There is that in the appearance of the California State Building which awakens everychivalrous spirit and causes ones mind to revert to those days when knights went forth onpilgrimages to battle for the right, or holy monks crossed ocean or desert to preach thefaith of their religion to those who worshiped others than the ever-living God. The California State Building combined a solidity of architecture which ages havehanded down to us as that of the old Spanish monastery. Its material was copied after thatused in the monasteries—adobe, or sun-dried brick. Its immense size, 435 by 144 feet,was a magnet to draw thousands of admiring visitors to it. But no magnetic buildingwas necessary, for the name California which was over the arched entrance to thebuilding was a fascination which drew the multitude to this beautiful structure, inclosingproducts of field and forest, of stream and mountain which have made California one of themost wonderful of the Unit

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