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Title: Camera shots at big game
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Wallihan, Allen Grant, 1859- (from old catalog) Wallihan, Mary Augusta (Higgins) "Mrs. A. G. Wallihan," joint author. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Animals Animal behavior Game and game-birds. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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. About the same num-ber were in this bunch, but I could not move without scaringthe last of those which had just passed, so had to gaze at themuntil the last one vanished. I made three more exposures thatday on deer, very close, but did not cover the camera whendrawing the slides, so of course they were all ruined. Thedeer were now traveling very thick, so I stationed myselfnearer camp where they crossed a deep gulch fringed withheavy sage-brush. This stand had one important drawback,namely, that the deer came directly against the wind, and inspite of my efforts to get far enough to one side, the greaternumber would scent danger and run back or pass around.For a short time, however, the wind was right for me, and abunch coming in, I let them approach quite close. Somewere down drinking at a spring when I exposed. (No.30.) The main part of the band was to the left of the view,so close that I could not shift the camera for fear of stamped-ing them, so I caught only part in the picture.
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Copyright, IWW, hy A. G. Wallihan. This time lie stood facing me.iDeer 62) CAMERA SHOTS AT BIG GAME 25 Anxious to try the 8 by 10 camera in Juniper Canon, wemoved over and camped at its head. Right near camp onetrail crossed, and I spent several nights trying to get flash-lightphotos of the deer in passage. I made several exposures, butonly one was successful. (No. 43.) The night was intenselydark, and to sit on the rocks for hours, with no sound but thatof the river or of an occasional owl, was a peculiar sensation.There were fresh mountain-lion tracks along the waters edge,and, indeed, I saw one—a monster — as I went down to thetrail one morning about sunrise. He was across the river uponthe hillside about a hundred yards distant, walking leisurely tohis den,— a cave in the ledges,— where he disappeared for theday. It was necessary to keep very quiet while waiting for thedeer, as they would come to the hilltop across the river and stopevery few yards, listening for any sign

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