DESCRIBES HIS
HUNTING TRIP
TO INTERIOR
Colonel J. A. McGuire, editor of Out
door Life, concludes the publication of
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a series of articles on his big hunt in
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the White River country under the
caption of “In the Realm of a Sour
dough.” with the following after
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thoughts:
“While ideas of Alaska and Yukon
I territory are usually associated with
obscure visions of mukluks aand mush
ing, blizzards and bidarkas, yet very
little of this life was ever apparent
to us as we traveled through. True,
the double-ender used by Stamapede
Mary in her memorable mush to Shu
shanna (officially spelled (Chisana)
during the gold rush was pointed out
to us, and I believe the sled dog that
kBilly the Bear traded to Four-Eyed
Brown was shown while were were
in McCarthy; yet, except for a few
such souvenirs, we saw very little evi
dence of the actual life of the musher,
due, of course, to the fact that our
pilgrimage there was during the warm
weather period. We were, however,
told various stirring tales of the ad
ventures of those who passed hard
winters in that clime, Cap Hubriclc
and Shorty Gwin vieing with each
other in setting off the most extrava
gant displays of superheated verbal
fireworks for bur especial entertain
ment. Of course, neither Cap nor
Shorty ever intended to deliberately
“gas” us—they merely formed a mu
tual resolve at the beginning of the
trip that we should not lack for en
tertainment during the sunless days
a^d the gameless days, and both be
ing capable linguists, as well as sour
doughs of many years’ standing in
that community, two more capable
men than they could not have been
selected to charge us with the moral,
mental and physical atmosphere of
that region.
My general impressiun ui
is that there are some wonderful char
acters of men and women there, and
that the territory contains sections,
as did other parts of the West during
frontier days, in which pure sand as
says in the make-up of a man as pure
gold. And yet, men’s lives and brave
deeds are sold cheaply in Alaska.
There the hardest hide covers the
^oftest heart. Human life there is
filled with wonderful emotions—the
greatest thrills, the deepest pain, the
greatest passions, the most perfect
patience.
"We hunted a country where every
high mountain represented a tentacu
lar ice plaster from ten to one hun
dred miles across it—some single gla
ciers containing as much ice as is
found iu the whole of Switzerland. It
takes men of strong courage and stout
limb to live the sourdough’s life, but
years of participation in this work
builds up the constitution, hardens
-Hie muscles and makes men of iron
Tkit of, sometimes, the most debili
tated specimens of humanity.
"My advice to all men, as empha
sized in Outdoor Life and personally,
has ever been directed toward living
as much of their life in the open as
pcK&le. Learn to cultivate a par
ticipation in some outdoor hobby (if
you haven’t been beguiled in that di
rection already) to such an extent and
with such fervor that it will actually
infringe on your official and social du
ties, and occasionally be allowed to
upset even some of your most profit
able and highly cherished business
plans. Take this hobby home with
^ou and treat it as you would your
best friend; listen to its whims, an
swer its call, and walk with it in the
open. I care not whether this out
door pursuit happens to come in the
form of dangling an earthworm over
an inoffensive and untenanted water
hole, or bringing down an elephant
in the jungle. One is as good for
your health as the other if you get
enough of it.
"Bear in mind that if you would pro
mote and keep alive that great organ
ism*Which you call your mortal coil,
there are a few fundamental rules you
should observe while straying along
this mundane trail. If you don’t so
listen to the call of nature you’ll be
come moldy of mind, yellow of skin,
crooked of shoulder, and so over
wrought and nervous that in the end
yon will not be a fit companion for
even a prairie dog.
“Remember that the axle-grease that
lubricates your bearings and liberates
the crinkles from your brain isn t
t&4en directly into your nozzle by
gulps, but in the form of sunny and
airy energizer it must percolate
through your jjores by degrees. Send
yourself out and into it long and
often. It’s a commodity that is sold
by no druggist, but comes as an elixir
from heaven, flooding the whole of the
outdoors in its welcoming call to you
to ‘come in.’
“Forget that your limbs were only
made to stretch a tailor's tape on or
to throw under a desk in working
hours. Take a new grip on yourself
and learn that a gun and a rod, when
used properly, form a wand that will
kill more germs than Bill Hohenzol
lern ever let loose in his palmiest day.
If you will follow the above advice
you will, by the glow of your cheek,
the spark of your eye, the spring of
your step and the wit 'of your mind,
show to those waiting heirs and as
signs that it will be a mighty long
time yet before anything is pulled off
of any great interest to them.
“In conclusion, I hope my readers
will get more generally into the habit
of writing up their hunting trips for
publication—either in Outdoor Life or
in the other magazines. Constructing
a story is somewhat similar to build
ing a hous.e—-only many times easier,
for the reason that you have every
thing at hand in your study instead
of having to gather the several ma
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