AFTER BIG GAME IN THE UPPER YUKON Armstrong 1937 Hunting Trapping Canada
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AFTER BIG GAME IN THE UPPER YUKONMAJOR NEVILL A. D. ARMSTRONGO.B.E., F.R.G.S.JOHN LONG LIMITED: LONDON
1937First edition.
This book contains the records of three trips after big game in the far away country of the Macmillan River, its tributaries and mountain ranges in the Upper Yukon. No white man had visited this district prior to the author's appearance there. He took the first steam-driven craft up the river, and a landing and a mountain were named after him.Here is a record of adventu...res— the thrill of the chase and the drama of sudden crises—set in the finest sporting country of its kind left on earth, a land of immense wilds enjoying a glorious climate and abundant with game, birds, and fish.CONTENTSPART ONE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE COUNTRY OF THE MACMILLAN, FIVE HUNDRED MILES FROM CIVILIZATION, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIG GAME THAT ABOUND, THEIR HABITS AND SOME ADVENTURES. ALSO A DESCRIPTION OF THE FUR-BEARING ANIMALS AND THE LIFE OF THE TRAPPER.
MY HUNTING COUNTRY
BIG GAME OF THE YUKON
A TRAPPER'S LIFE IN THE SUB-ARCTICPART TWO THE RECORD OF A SUCCESSFUL TRIP IN 1914, WITH SOME THRILLING ENCOUNTERS AND THE DETAILS OF THE "BAG."
THE JOURNEY TO THE MACMILLAN RIVER, 1914
SHEEP: THE FINEST SPORT IN THE WORLD
AFTER CARIBOU—AND GRIZZLIES BY THE WAY
AFTER MOOSE
WE RETURN TO FORT SELKIRK.PART THREE PROSPECTING AND HUNTING IN THE TERRITORY ROUND THE MACMILLAN, 1925.
OFF TO THE MACMILLAN AGAIN
ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT SHEEP BASIN
THE BIG BULL CARIBOU—AND OTHERS
HUMAN INTERLUDE
ADVENTURES WITH MOOSE
WAY OUT STORIESPART FOUR FURTHER STALKS-AND MANY KILLS IN THE UPPER YUKON, 1926.
A PRELIMINARY SKIRMISH FOR MEAT
AFTER SHEEP
THE BIG MOOSE
I KILL MY SECOND GRIZZLY
A FINE BULL CARIBOU (RANGIFER OSBORNI)APPENDICES
I. CLASSIFICATION OF CARIBOU IN THE UPPER YUKON, TOGETHER WITH COMMENTS BY MR. E. N. BARCLAY, DEPARTMENT ZOOLOGY, BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY)
II. RECORDS OF REMARKABLE HEADS
III. THE SETTING OF TRAPS AND THE SKINNING OF FUR-BEARING ANIMALS
IV. TRANSPORTATION WITHOUT HORSES
24 x 16 cm. 287 pp + b/w photo plates + publishers adverts. Map endpapers.
Very good condition, corners of boards lightly bumped and worn, light foxing to page edges and index pages, odd inscription in 2 different inks to reverse of half-title page, water stain to rear map endpaper, but otherwise clean, binding firm, all plates present. Nevill Alexander Drummond Armstrong was born in 1874, the grandson of an Irish baronet in Co. Meath. As early as 1894 he is recorded as a big game hunter, warden, miner, gold prospector, and outfitter in some of Canada’s remotest Northwest Territories. From 1901 he led long canoe expeditions up the MacMillan River and Armstrong Creek, later taking his intrepid wife Mary Ann on trips lasting up to 2 years. Some of these adventures he later recounted in Yukon Yesterdays (1936) and After Big Game in the Upper Yukon (1937).
In 1915 he enlisted as a lieutenant with the 16th Battalion (‘the Canadian Scottish’) of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), serving on the Western Front. Promoted in 1916, he applied hunting expertise to the development and instruction of systematic sniping. He was 4 times mentioned in despatches, in 1919 awarded the OBE, and in 1920 divorced Mary Ann and returned to the Yukon wilds until 1926.
Armstrong rejoined the military in World War II as Lieut.-Col. and Commandant of the Royal Marine Sniping School, 1942–45. His Fieldcraft, Sniping and Intelligence (1940) remains an influential military textbook to this day.
1937First edition.
This book contains the records of three trips after big game in the far away country of the Macmillan River, its tributaries and mountain ranges in the Upper Yukon. No white man had visited this district prior to the author's appearance there. He took the first steam-driven craft up the river, and a landing and a mountain were named after him.Here is a record of adventu...res— the thrill of the chase and the drama of sudden crises—set in the finest sporting country of its kind left on earth, a land of immense wilds enjoying a glorious climate and abundant with game, birds, and fish.CONTENTSPART ONE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE COUNTRY OF THE MACMILLAN, FIVE HUNDRED MILES FROM CIVILIZATION, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIG GAME THAT ABOUND, THEIR HABITS AND SOME ADVENTURES. ALSO A DESCRIPTION OF THE FUR-BEARING ANIMALS AND THE LIFE OF THE TRAPPER.
MY HUNTING COUNTRY
BIG GAME OF THE YUKON
A TRAPPER'S LIFE IN THE SUB-ARCTICPART TWO THE RECORD OF A SUCCESSFUL TRIP IN 1914, WITH SOME THRILLING ENCOUNTERS AND THE DETAILS OF THE "BAG."
THE JOURNEY TO THE MACMILLAN RIVER, 1914
SHEEP: THE FINEST SPORT IN THE WORLD
AFTER CARIBOU—AND GRIZZLIES BY THE WAY
AFTER MOOSE
WE RETURN TO FORT SELKIRK.PART THREE PROSPECTING AND HUNTING IN THE TERRITORY ROUND THE MACMILLAN, 1925.
OFF TO THE MACMILLAN AGAIN
ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT SHEEP BASIN
THE BIG BULL CARIBOU—AND OTHERS
HUMAN INTERLUDE
ADVENTURES WITH MOOSE
WAY OUT STORIESPART FOUR FURTHER STALKS-AND MANY KILLS IN THE UPPER YUKON, 1926.
A PRELIMINARY SKIRMISH FOR MEAT
AFTER SHEEP
THE BIG MOOSE
I KILL MY SECOND GRIZZLY
A FINE BULL CARIBOU (RANGIFER OSBORNI)APPENDICES
I. CLASSIFICATION OF CARIBOU IN THE UPPER YUKON, TOGETHER WITH COMMENTS BY MR. E. N. BARCLAY, DEPARTMENT ZOOLOGY, BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY)
II. RECORDS OF REMARKABLE HEADS
III. THE SETTING OF TRAPS AND THE SKINNING OF FUR-BEARING ANIMALS
IV. TRANSPORTATION WITHOUT HORSES
24 x 16 cm. 287 pp + b/w photo plates + publishers adverts. Map endpapers.
Very good condition, corners of boards lightly bumped and worn, light foxing to page edges and index pages, odd inscription in 2 different inks to reverse of half-title page, water stain to rear map endpaper, but otherwise clean, binding firm, all plates present. Nevill Alexander Drummond Armstrong was born in 1874, the grandson of an Irish baronet in Co. Meath. As early as 1894 he is recorded as a big game hunter, warden, miner, gold prospector, and outfitter in some of Canada’s remotest Northwest Territories. From 1901 he led long canoe expeditions up the MacMillan River and Armstrong Creek, later taking his intrepid wife Mary Ann on trips lasting up to 2 years. Some of these adventures he later recounted in Yukon Yesterdays (1936) and After Big Game in the Upper Yukon (1937).
In 1915 he enlisted as a lieutenant with the 16th Battalion (‘the Canadian Scottish’) of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), serving on the Western Front. Promoted in 1916, he applied hunting expertise to the development and instruction of systematic sniping. He was 4 times mentioned in despatches, in 1919 awarded the OBE, and in 1920 divorced Mary Ann and returned to the Yukon wilds until 1926.
Armstrong rejoined the military in World War II as Lieut.-Col. and Commandant of the Royal Marine Sniping School, 1942–45. His Fieldcraft, Sniping and Intelligence (1940) remains an influential military textbook to this day.
