AN AMERICAN ELK RETROSPECTIVE; Vintage Photos and Memorabilia from the Boone and Crockett Club Archives
B&C Club. 2010 Missoula, MT, 1st edn, 218pp, over 250 b&w photos, limited edition of 15 copies in slipcase, bound in half leather, marbled boards. Slipcase and book like new. Item #008085
An American Elk Retrospective takes readers back through the evolution of elk hunting from the late 1880s up through the 1970s, and is packed with hundreds of amazing vintage photos, historic score charts, records-keeping correspondence, and portraits of award-winning elk. Revisit some of the most publicized and significant elk trophies ever recorded: The legendary Dark Canyon bull taken in 1899 by John Plute, which stood as the World’s Record for decades, Fred Mercer’s typical American elk harvested in Montana during the 1950s that resulted in a Sagamore Hill Award, William D. DeWeese’s non-typical giant that was taken over 120 years ago in Colorado, and many other truly outstanding but lesser-known trophies. This is the most limited Boone & Crockett published item we know of signed by 7 leading members of the club, it originally sold for $250.00 each and reportedly never was for sale to the general public as it was sold out before publication.
Price: $750.00