William T. Hornaday

Camp-Fire on Desert and Lava (eBook, ePUB)

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Follow Boone and Crockett Club member William T. Hornaday on his month-long expedition in November of 1907 to the uncharted lavascape of southern Arizona and northern Mexico to an area known as the Pinacate region. Hornaday is joined by John M. Phillips who had accompanied him two years earlier in the Great North, chronicled in "Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies". You'll once again revel in their adventures with the author's entertaining prose as they encounter interesting characters, extraordinary craters, amazing cacti, and collect desert sheep for the Carnegie Museum.

An excerpt from Hornaday's Preface...

Naturally, the animal and plant life of the Pinacate region was as much unknown as its geography; hence our combination of botanist, zoologist, sportsman, and geographer. In any wild country, that is "a good hand to draw to," and with the three jolly good fellows whose company I shared, I could enjoy exploring any country this side of the Styx. Indeed, I would take my chances with them beyond it.

Ever since it was my good fortune to see the Rocky Mountain big-horn at its culminating point in British Columbia, I had been keenly desirous of studying that species at the point where its progress southward is stopped by fierce heat, and scanty food and water. It seemed to me that in the Pinacate region we might in all probability find one of the jumping-off places of the genus Ovis in North America; which we did.

Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava is a part of the B&C Classics series launched in 2012 by the Boone and Crockett Club. Each book in the series was authored by a member of B&C in the late 1800s or early 1900s and was hand-selected by a committee of vintage hunting literature experts. Readers will be taken back to a time when hunting trips didn't happen over a weekend, but were adventures spanning weeks, months, even years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boone & Crockett Club
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781940860404
• Artikelnr.: 62878342

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By William T. Hornaday

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER I
MOVING PICTURES OF THE IRON TRAIL Pinacate, the Mystery
A Desert Experience and an Exploration
Dr. Daniel Trembly MacDougal
Moving Pictures of the Southwest
Four State Corners in One Day
The Threshold of the Great Desert Region
New Mexico
Two Oases
El Paso, and the Small Rio Grande
The Dreariest Deserts
Arrival at Tucson. CHAPTER II
TUCSON, AND THE DESERT BOTANICAL LABORATORY The Amphitheatre of Tucson
A Demoralized Compass
The Santa Cruz River
The Flavour of Mexico
The Yaqui Indian and His Industry
Impressions of Tucson
The University of Arizona
The Hand of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
The Desert Botanical Laboratory, Its Plant, and Its Problems. CHAPTER III
TRAILING INTO A NEW WORLD Our Social Register
A Model Outfit
A New and Different World
An Encounter with Indians
Our First Accident Averted
A Cattle Ranch Around a Desert Well
Animal Life of the First Day
The First Camp
Fire. CHAPTER IV
FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF AN ARBOREAL DESERT The Frame of Mind
The Nursery Idea
Strange Association of Plains and Mountains
Desert Amphitheatres
Unique Granite Mountains
The Arroyo and Its Uses
Millions of Specimen Shrubs and Trees
A Flood Basin. CHAPTER V
A DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN The Lost Cactus Garden
The Beautiful Palo Verde
An Unworked Table Decoration
The Deadly Mistletoe
The Acacia, or "Cat
Claw" Thorn
The Unique and Wonderful Ocatilla
A Bouquet of Green Wands
The Octopus of the Desert
The Ironwood Tree
The Omnipresent Creosote Bush, and Its Purpose. CHAPTER VI
UNROLLING THE PANORAMA OF THE DESERT Fine Weather, Hot and Cold
The Best Kind of a Wash
Two Ravens Pester Our National Emblem
Coyote Mountain and Well
Hayes's Well and the "Well Ahead"
A Narrow Escape
A Papago Indian Village
Tank
Water and Well
Water
Camp on the Santa Rosa Plain
Animal Life
The Passe South
western Indian
The Organ
Pipe Cactus CHAPTER VII
FROM THE QUIJOTOA PASS TO THE MEXICAN OASIS The Cubo Valley
A Typical Flood Basin
The Prize Giant Cactus
A Beautiful Camp at Wall's Well
The Ajo Lily
Montezuma's Head
Down the Ajo Valley
A Lava Ridge
The Grave of a Murdered Mexican
Across the Boundary and into Mexico. CHAPTER VIII
THE SONOYTA OASIS An Isolated Community
Sketch of Sonoyta
Judge Traino Quiroz and His Family
The Sorrows of an Amateur Photographer
Life in Sonoyta
Fruits
Absence of Grafters
Our Official Entrance into Mexico
Lieutenant Jesus Medina and the Fiscal Guard
An Annoying Slip of a Pen
Mr. Jeff Milton, Inspector of Immigration
A Man of Many "Gun" Episodes. CHAPTER IX
A SMALL DEER HUNT TO THE CUBABI MOUNTAINS Cubabi Peak
Coyote and Skunk
Rain in the Desert
Disagreeable Trait in Mexican Rural Guides
A Fertile Mountain Valley
Enter Coues White
Tailed Deer
The Repression of Charlie
Death of a Doe
Its Size and Food Supply
A Down
pour and Darkness on the Desert
Mr. Sykes Comes in. CHAPTER X
DOWN THE SONOYTA TO THE LAVA The Start Westward
Bad Mules
"The Devil's Road"
A Ruined Hacienda
A Lonesome Little Cemetery
We Meet Mr. Daniels
The Sonoyta River in Flood
The Water
Storage Cactus
A Rattlesnake in Camp
Quitovaquita, on the Boundary
Rube Daniels's Passion for Powder
An Accident
A Japanese Incident
Pinacate from Afar
Another Rattlesnake in Camp. CHAPTER XI
AN EVENTFUL DAY AT THE EDGE OF THE LAVA The Finest Organ
Pipes and a Red
Tailed Hawk
The Alkali Plain
The Ocatilla's Flower
View of Pinacate
A Much
Perforated Plain
The First Volcano Crater
A Circus with Prong
Horned Antelopes
My Locoed Coyote
The Malpais Plain
A Bridge to Cross a Ditch
Lost Wagons and Benighted Men
A Bivouac in the Desert
Rescued in Spite of Ourselves
A Long Night Ride. CHAPTER XII
THE PANORAMA OF MacDougal PASS AND VOLCANO In the Tule Desert
Farther Than Ever from Pinacate
The Corner of a Vast Volcanic Area
A Weird Cyclorama
Monument No. 180
A River of Verdure
Pathfinding Along the Edge of the Lava
A Volcanic Curiosity
A Great Choya Field
The Sand Ridge
A Galleta Meadow
The Doctor's Garden
Fresh Mountain Sheep Tracks
The Papago Tanks, Found in the Dark
Mr. Sykes Finds a Huge Crater
Nature's Planting on the Crater Floor
Two Rifle Shots. CHAPTER XIII
THE PAPAGO TANKS AND THE LAVA FIELDS An Unpleasant Episode at MacDougal Crater
Mr. Daniels Leaves Us
By Pack
Train Across the Lava
The Papago Tanks
Aqueducts Through the Lava
Our Little Oasis
The White Brittle
Bush
Vegetable Life on the Lava. CHAPTER XIV
EXTINCT VOLCANOES AND MOUNTAIN SHEEP A Blank Sheep Hunt to the Author's Mountains
Mr. Milton Scores With Two Sheep
Mr. Phillips Kills Two Rams
The Clover
Leaf Crater
The Sykes Crater
Awful Lava Cones
The Dead Ram and Its Surroundings
Mr. Phillips Tells the Story of the Rainbow Rams. CHAPTER XV
DOGS IN CAMP Doubtful Dog Experiments
The Troubles of Bob
The Troubles of Bob's Friends
A Dog with no Savvey
Rex and Rowdy
A Canine Glutton
Rowdy's Contract at the Papago Tanks
His Waterloo
The Sickest Dog on Record
The Bad Break of Rex. CHAPTER XVI
THE CACTUS DISPLAY, FROM TUCSON TO PINACATE Desert Plant Life More Interesting than Animal Life
The Cacti
The Giant Cactus
Its Culmination at Comobabi
Diminution Southward and Westward
Structure
The Organ
Pipe Cactus
The Finest Specimen
The Barrel Cactus and Its Water Supply
A Demonstration Beside the Trail
Cactus Candy
Small Forms of Echinocactus
Bigelow's Accursed Choya
The Pain of an Encounter
Mr. Sykes's Accident
Strength of Spines
The Tree Choya
Opuntias
Leafless Bushes with Water
Storage Stems. CHAPTER XVII
A JOURNEY OVER THE LAVA AND ANOTHER TO THE GULF Work on Specimens
Arroyos
Awful Lava Ridges and Lava Plains
Mutiny in the Line
The Gulf of California
Two Antelopes Killed on a Lava Plain
The Highway to Pinacate
The Tule Tanks, sans Tules
Our Camp
Mr. Sykes Goes to the Gulf. CHAPTER XVIII
A GREAT DAY WITH SHEEP ON PINACATE A Scattered Party
The Distant "Cut Bank"
View from 1,000 Feet Elevation
A Lost Aneroid and a Maze of Coat
Pockets
The Choya Peak
Hard Travelling for Human Feet
Two Sheep Sighted
A Run for Them
Bad Shooting and a Badly Rattled Sportsman
Mr. Phillips Apologizes for Killing His "Bunger"
Chase of a Wounded Ram
Success at Last
Moonrise over Pinacate Peaks
The Lava Field by Moonlight. CHAPTER XIX
THE ASCENT OF PINACATE By Saddle Horse to the Foot of the Peaks
Weakness of the Camera on the Lava Beds
The Notch
Mountain Sheep
Pinacate Peak at Last
More Mountain Sheep
A Fearless Band and a Great View of It
General Aspect of the Peak
A Great Extinct Crater
The Climb to the Summit
A Wild Revel on the Top
The Cyclorama Below
The Sad End of the Sonoyta River
"The Big Red Peak"
A Circle of Photographs
Our Cairn and Record
The Doctor Gets His Sheep
The Flight from the Summit
Three Decide to "Lie Out" Near the Two Rams. CHAPTER XX
"LYING
OUT" ON PINACATE, AND THE FINAL SHEEP A Camp
Fire in a Lava Ravine
A Dinner of Broiled Liver
The Resources of the Party and Their Distribution
The Gunny Sack as a Producer of Warmth
Mr. Phillips Takes Advantage of a Sleeping Comrade
The Coyotes Spoil a Museum Sheep
"Why Don't You Shoot that Ram?"
Curiosity Long Drawn Out
An Unexpected Trophy
Mr. Sykes Stalks a Mountain Sheep on Pinacate. CHAPTER XXI
THE YARN OF THE BURNING OF THE "HILDA" The Characteristics of Mr. Godfrey Sykes
A Versatile and Remarkable Man
The Yarn of the Hilda
A Quick Transformation Scene on a Desolate Shore
A Foot
Race with Death
Impassable Mountains
Seven Hard
Tack for 160 Miles
A Tough Coyote
A Fish in Time
Swimming the Colorado
A Bean
Pot at Last
The End of Charlie McLean. CHAPTER XXII
NOTES ON THE MAMMALS BETWEEN TUCSON AND THE GULF Desert Conditions
The Pack
Rat and Its Wonderful Nests
The Kangaroo Rat
Harris's Chipmunk
No Arboreal Squirrels
Jack Rabbit and Cotton
Tail
The Coyote
Prong
Horned Antelope
Deer
Peccary. CHAPTER XXIII
NOVEMBER BIRD LIFE IN THE LAND OF LITTLE RAIN The Disappointing Road
Runner
Gambel's Quail and Its Pursuit
The Wisdom of the Cactus Wren
The Crissal Thrasher's Nest
Western Red
Tailed Hawk
The Red
Shafted Flicker
Nests in the Giant Cactus
The Crows at the Papago Tanks, and a Murder
Doves
A Bittern Fishing
The Mud
Hen of Sonoyta
Scarcity of Reptiles in November. CHAPTER XXIV
THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP OF MEXICO Bird's
eye View of the Genus Ovis
Its Vanishing Point at Pinacate
Straight Ovis canadensis
The Making of a New Form
Colours
Size
The Feet
The Pelage
The Horns, Skull, and Teeth
Habits
Geographical Distribution in Mexico
Summary of Facts and Conclusions. CHAPTER XXV
THE FLIGHT FROM PINACATE Mountains Being Buried by Sand
The Meeting of Desert and Lava
Antelopes for Mr. Phillips
The Represa Tank
The Mexican Wagon Wins Out
Heading for Gila Bend
The Ajo Valley
Gila Bend
A Dinner Fit for the Gods
Back to Civilization. A SPORTSMEN'S PLATFORM