Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1920 — CAMERA INSTEAD OF RIFLE [ARTICLE]

CAMERA INSTEAD OF RIFLE

Big Game Hunters Get the Thrill of the Sport Without the Useless • ' Slaughter. It was a notable event In the history of the wild life of oar country when the first big game hunter hung .up his rifle and took to the woods with a camera. • , * Ever since the first photographer went afield with a sportsman, the camera man has been the best exponent. and advertiser of the prowess of the man with a gun. During the dajrs of the slow and cumbersome' wet plate and long exposures the alert and sudden was about as unattainable pictorially as the canals of 1 Mars. The dry plate opened up great possibilities in the photographing of dead ■game in its haunts. From 1884 onward American hunters of big game joyously welcomed the startling pie-, tures made by Eaton A. Huffman of Miles City, Mont. Mr. Huffman was a true sportsman, a fine* shot, and as a photographer of hunting scenes be' long stood without a rival. 'Never will I forget the thrills that I received in his little old log cabin studio 4b “Milestown,” when he showed me his stereoscope views of “elk and dead grizzles, glory enough for one day”; a mountain sheep ram on the brink of a precipice/ many buffalo-killing pictures, and antelope and deer galore. t think that Mr. Huffman —who still lives and photographs—enjoys the distinction of having had more photographs! stolen for publication without than any other camera man on earth; and that, I,know, Is a large order, American sportsmen hailed with joy the birth of the light, ever-ready, uni-versal-focus camera. It was the opening of a new and, delightful field of Christian' endeavor. It presented a highway of escape from the flood of game-slaughter photographs that had been sweeping over the continent like a deluge.—“ Masterpieces of Wild Animal Photography,” by William T. Hornaday, in Scribner,