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James Edwin Baum
James Edwin Baum (November 15, 1887December 1, 1955) was an American journalist and big-game hunter. After running away from home he worked as a Wrangler (profession), wrangler before finding employment as a reporter at the ''Omaha Daily Bee''. After a stint with the ''Chicago Daily News'' and an investment firm Baum served as a pilot during World War I. He worked as a cattle rancher after the war and at the ''Chicago Evening Journal''. Baum rejoined the ''Chicago Daily News'' in 1925 and accompanied the paper's 1926–27 Abyssinia expedition during which he shot big game specimens for the Field Museum of Natural History. Afterwards he wrote several fiction and non-fiction books and undertook other expeditions for the museum. Biography James Edwin Baum was born in Lincoln, Nebraska on November 15, 1887. At the age of 14 he ran away from home and Freighthopping, freighthopped to Wyoming where he found work as a Wrangler (profession), wrangler. Baum worked as a reporter a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big-game Hunter
Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game animals for meat, commercially valuable by-products (such as horns/antlers, furs, tusks, bones, body fat/oil, or special organs and contents), trophy/taxidermy, or simply just for recreation ("sporting"). The term is often associated with the hunting of Africa's "Big Five" games (lion, African elephant, Cape buffalo, African leopard, and rhinoceros), and with tigers and rhinoceroses on the Indian subcontinent. History Hunting of big game for food is an ancient practice, possibly arising with the emergence of ''Homo sapiens'' (anatomically modern humans), and possibly pre-dating it, given the known propensity of other great apes to hunt, and even eat their own species. The Schöningen spears and their correlation of finds are evidence that complex technological skills already existed 300,000 years ago, and are the first obvious proof of an active (big game) hunt. ''H. heidelbergensis'' already had intellectual and cognitive sk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
