Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter

At the dawn of the twentieth century, America was vanishing before its own eyes. Theodore Roosevelt, still years from the White House but already bristling with restless energy, set down these accounts of pursuit in the last great wildernesses - the Badlands, the Tetons, the trackless forests of the West. This is Roosevelt the hunter, not yet fully transformed into Roosevelt the conservationist, but already sensing what would be lost. The book chronicles his adventures in pursuit of cougars and elk, his observations of a natural world undergoing rapid transformation. Written in his characteristic vigorous prose - muscular, observant, unafraid of enthusiasm - these pages capture a man in transition, a nation at a turning point. The wilderness he describes would not survive unchanged, and neither would its most passionate pursuer. For readers drawn to the American frontier, the formation of modern conservation, or simply Roosevelt in his most unvarnished and energetic form.