Sportsmen in Victorian America were just as enthusiastic hunters as their kinsmen across the pond. However, hunting in America tended to be quite a different thing. In Britain, hunters had little genuine "wilderness" to hunt in; hunting generally took place in carefully managed game parks, preserves, and forests. In America, it took place in the wild. And for some, the wilder the better; hunters like Theodore Roosevelt delighted in traveling to remote parts of the country to seek out elusive game. Even then, sportsmen began to realize that some species (like the moose in the Adirondacks) were being overhunted and would soon vanish if steps weren't taken (which they usually weren't). American sportsmen often enlisted the assistance of Native American guides, trackers and hunters in their pursuit of game. (I've included Canada and Mexico in this section as well, as these were common destinations for American game hunters.)

Moosehead Lake [Maine] (Harper's Monthly, 1875B)

A Buffalo Hunt in Northern Mexico (Scribners, 1879A)

Caribou-Hunting (Scribners, 1879A)

The article offers a great deal of information about the caribou and its territories; the hunting occurs in New Brunswick, Canada.

Field Sports in Minnesota (Scribners, 1879B)

Seals and Seal-Hunting in the North Atlantic, by Ernest Ingersoll (St. Nicholas, 1882B)

Snipe-Shooting, by George Bird Grinnell (Century Magazine, 1883B)

Hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat, by William A. Baillie-Grohman (Century Magazine, 1885A)

Still-Hunting the Grizzly, by Theodore Roosevelt (Century Magazine, 1885B)

Hunting the Grizzly Bear, by G.O. Shields (Harper's Monthly, 1887B)

An Elk-Hunt on the Plains, by Frederick Schwatka (Century Magazine, 1888A)

The Western Outlook for Sportsmen, by Franklin Satterthwaite (Harper's Monthly, 1889A)

American Game Laws (Century Magazine, 1890A)

An Adventure with a Grizzly (Pictorial Museum of Sport & Adventure, ca. 1890)

A hunter's tale.

[Canada] A Hunter's Elysium (Pictorial Museum of Sport & Adventure, ca. 1890)

Chase of the Bison (Pictorial Museum of Sport & Adventure, ca. 1890)

Hunting the Moose (Pictorial Museum of Sport & Adventure, ca. 1890)

An Elk-Hunt at Two-Ocean Pass [Wyoming], by Theodore Roosevelt (Century Magazine, 1892B)

A Winter's Sport in the Rockies, by W.A. Baillie-Grohman (English Illustrated Magazine, 1895A)

Fox-Hunting in Kentucky, by John Fox, Jr. (Century Magazine, 1895B)

Stalking the Haploceros in the Selkirks, by W.A. Baillie-Grohman (English Illustrated Magazine, 1895B)

Hunting mountain goats in the mountains of Idaho and Canada.

After B'rer Rabbit in the Bluegrass: A Thanksgiving Event, by John Fox, Jr. (Century Magazine, 1897A)

Trapping and Taxidermy (Drapers' Self-Culture, 1913)

See also

• Hunting in Britain

• Big Game Hunting Around the World

• Fishing