In Closed Territory

Edgar Beecher Bronson (1856–1917) was a Nebraska rancher, a West Texas cattleman, an African big-game hunter, and a serious photographer. ‘In Closed Territory,” is a wonderfully interesting account of hunting big game in British East Africa over the same ground covered by Colonel Roosevelt. Mr. Bronson was attended by many guides and bearers later engaged for the Roosevelt expedition. and he writes of the people, country, customs, etc., in a highly entertaining and illuminating manner. Mr. Bronson’s best known previous contribution to literature was his “Reminiscences of a Ranchman."



CONTENTS

I. Through Pathless Desert

II. Old Jungle Warriors At Bay

III. Kudu, Cobra, Wild Dog, And Eland

IV. Seen From A Rhino's Bed

V. Fickle Equatorial Fashions

VI. Along Unmapped Nile Sources

VII. Surrounded By Wild Elephant

VIII. "close Thing, That, Right-oh!"

IX. A Hideous Old Haunter

X. In The Tall Grass Tuskers Love

XI. A Mighty Spear Thrust

XII. Potting A Python

XIII. The Luck Of The Game

XIV. Is Central Africa A White Man's Country?

XV. Rubbering In Uganda

XVI. The Hazards Of The Game



This book published in 1910 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.