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Record hunt catalogs world big game trophies and origins
The New York Zoological Society catalogs a campaign to locate and measure North American big game trophies for a national collection. It details the Records of North American Big Game, methods of measurement, and efforts to uncover world record heads, noting English ownership of many top trophies and historic cross Atlantic hunting ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Zoological Society
Prentiss N. Gray
Kermit Roosevelt
Madison Grant
W. Redmond
Cross
George Harrison
E. Hubert Litchfield
George Bird Grinnell
Ernest Thompson Seton
C. Hart Merriam
Samuel Merrill
Wilfred H. Osgood
H. B. Anthony
E. W. Nelson
Maj
E. A. Goldman
Thomas Barbour
Edmund Seymour
Thierry Mallet
C.H. Townsend
Rocky Mountain States
Tez
Trez
National Collection of
Heads and Horns
England
Wyoming
Horsham
Elizabeth
Prince of Wales
Edward VII
America
London
A. L. Tullock
Montana
Old Cosmopolitan Magazine
Plains
Col. W. IF. Cody
Buffalo Bill
George Gore
Fort Leavenworth
Rocky Mountain
John Watts Garland
Lord Adair
Earl of Dunraven
Doctor Kingsley
Charles Kingsley
Fort McPherson
Platte River
North Platte
Garland
Gore
John Garland