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Identifier: californiagamema00mayw (find matches)
Title: California game "marked down";
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: (May, W. B.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: San Francisco, Cal., Southern Pacific company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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RED-HEAD DUCK. Ay thy a Americana. CANVAS-BACK LUCK. Ay thy a Valisneria. KERN COUNTY. Bakersfield, its most important and central city, is 314 miles from SanFrancisco by rail of Southern Pacific Company. As an all-round sportingfield Kern county is perhaps well in the front as leader of the world.It covers an immense area of mountain and valley, takes a broad cantle outof the Sierra Nevada, with acre for acre of matching valley of San Joaquin. ( 20 )
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GRIZZLY BEAR.Ursus Ferox. The mountain district furnishes ideal haunts for bear—grizzly and black,brown and cinnamon, with California lions and other feline beasts ofprey, not to mention wolves and coyotes. Deer are very abundant.The mountain and foothill streams, an endless list of them named, andothers yet to be explored and given a place on the map, literally swarmwith trout. One of these, Whitney Creek, has recently added that ( 21 ) expression of highest piscine beauty, Golden Trout, salmo mykiss aquahonita, to the royal family. The valley is traversed by Kern River and by numerous other lessimportant natural streams of living water, and by an endless network ofartificial conduits, canals and laterals. In addition to these are severalarge lakes and reservoirs; one of them, called Buena Vista, is an immense natural basin that has been artificially assisted to a water capac-ity of higher level. The foothills are sparsely wooded with oaks (white

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  • bookauthor:_May__W__B____from_old_catalog_
  • booksubject:Game_and_game_birds
  • bookpublisher:San_Francisco__Cal___Southern_Pacific_company
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