Hello, welcome to the Bore You to Sleep podcast, the podcast that will hopefully help you get to sleep.

I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is

hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep.

Tonight's readings come from American Big Game Hunting, the book of the Boone and Crocket Club,

written in the early 20th century. It's a good read and looks at how life was in the early 1900s.

The book is by various authors, and the editors are George Bird, Grenel and Theodore Roosevelt.

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Now, let's get into the story for tonight.

We're going to first read from the preface of American Big Game Hunting.

The first volume, published by the Boone and Crocket Club, under the title American Big Game Hunting can find itself as its title implied to sport on this continent in presenting the second volume a number of sketches are included written by members who have hunted

big game in other lands the contribution of those whose names are so well

known in connection with explorations in China and Tibet and in Africa have an exceptional interest for men whose use of the rifle has been confined entirely to the North American continent

during the two years that have elapsed since the appearance of its last volume,

the Boone and Crocket Club has not been idle.

The activity of its members was largely instrumental in securing at last the passage by Congress of an act to protect the Yellowstone

National Park and to punish crimes and offences within its borders, though it may be questioned

whether even their efforts would have had any result,

had not the public interest been aroused, and the congressional conscience prickled by the wholesale slaughter

of Buffalo, which took place in the park in March 1894,

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