Hunting the American West
Fair Chase Archive — Summer 2017
An excerpt from Hunting the American West. Among the most renowned sport hunters of the golden age, Theodore Roosevelt first went west in September of 1883 to shoot a buffalo while one could still be found. Arriving in the Dakota Bad Lands with a romantic determination to meet the challenge, he engaged future-ranch-partner Joe Ferris to guide him to the by-then, extremely scarce quarry.