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  2. Siege of Boonesborough - Wikipedia

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    In January 1778, Daniel Boone led a party of thirty men to the salt springs on the Licking River. On February 7, 1778, when Boone was out hunting meat for the expedition, he was surprised and captured by warriors led by Blackfish. Because Boone's party was greatly outnumbered, he convinced his men to surrender rather than put up a fight.

  3. George Shiras III - Wikipedia

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    On February 14, 1906, Shiras was elected Associate Member of the Boone and Crockett Club, a conservation organization founded by Theodore Roosevelt in 1887. [3] He was credited with the discovery of a moose subspecies in Yellowstone National Park, which was named Alces alces shirasi , Shiras's Moose.

  4. Boone and Crockett Club - Wikipedia

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    The Boone and Crockett Club is an American nonprofit organization that advocates fair chase hunting in support of habitat conservation. The club is North America's oldest wildlife and habitat conservation organization, founded in the United States in 1887 by Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell .

  5. Trophy hunting - Wikipedia

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    Hunter with a bear's head and hide strapped to his back on the Kodiak Archipelago. Trophy hunting in North America was encouraged as a way of conservation by organizations such as the Boone & Crockett club as hunting an animal with a big set of antlers or horns is a way of selecting only the mature animals, contributing to shape a successful conservation model in the country in which hunting ...

  6. Emerson Hough - Wikipedia

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    Emerson Hough circa 1909 Poster for the movie adaptation of The Sagebrusher (1920). Emerson Hough (June 28, 1857 – April 30, 1923) was an American writer best known for writing western stories and historical novels.

  7. History of the National Wildlife Refuge System - Wikipedia

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    One such organization was the Boone and Crockett Club, founded in 1887 by a group of leading explorers, hunters, writers, scientists and political leaders, including Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt was acquainted with resource management needs and with many individuals, organizations and agencies concerned about threats to wildlife and the need ...

  8. Fair chase - Wikipedia

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    Fair chase is a term used by hunters to describe an ethical approach to hunting big game animals. North America's oldest wildlife conservation group, the Boone and Crockett Club, defines "fair chase" as requiring the targeted game animal to be wild and free-ranging. [1] "

  9. The Big Sky (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Big Sky is a 1947 Western novel by A. B. Guthrie Jr. It is the first of six novels in Guthrie's sequence dealing with the Oregon Trail and the development of Montana from 1830, the time of the mountain men, to "the cattle empire of the 1880s to the near present."