The Wilderness Hunter by ROOSEVELT, Theodore - 1893

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Frontispiece with tissue guard plus 23 full-page and numerous text illustrations by Frederick Remington, A.B. Frost, Henry Sandham and C. Harry Eaton. Original publisher's decorated cloth with an antelope head in gilt on the front cover, spine somewhat darkened, otherwise a very nice copy. First edition, first issue (with chapter headpieces printed in brown) of Roosevelt's splendid account of his Western adventures. He starts with a description of the American west, with details of its land, pioneers and settlers. Readers are mesmerized with tales of hunting on the Great Plains, the Badlands and the Rocky Mountains that only Roosevelt can weave.

Roosevelt (1858-1919), twenty-sixth president of the United States, was famed for his service as Colonel of the Rough Riders and his charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. He received the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any political office he held.