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Signed book: The Wilderness Hunter: An Account Of The Big Game Of The United States And Its Chase With Horse, Hound And Rifle. Special 'Alleghany Edition.' NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker Press, 1901. Hardcover bound in brown cloth with gilt stamping and design, 6.75 x 9.75, 472 pages. Nicely signed on the first free end page in ink as president, "Theodore Roosevelt, Sept. 1902." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/None, with rubbing to boards, bumped corners, wear at spine ends, and a "Library of Lawrence E. Miller" blindstamp to the last page. When his first wife died in 1884, Theodore Roosevelt withdrew to his cattle ranch in western Dakota. There, he wrote Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (1885) and Thomas Hart Benton (1887) and began work on The Winning of the West (1889). He also penned this account of big-game hunting in the United States, with chapters on hunting lore, hunting with hounds, hunting the grizzly, and hunting from the ranch.
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