"The Boone and Crocket Club is organized primarily to promote manly sport with the rifle among the large game of the wilderness, to encourage travel and exploration in little-known regions of our country, and to work for game and forest preservation by the State." -Theodore Roosevelt & George Bird Grinnell, American Big-Game Hunting American Big-Game Hunting-The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club (1893), edited by Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell, is a collection of essays about hunting and outdoors adventures from various authors, such as "Nights with the Grizzlies," by Colonel W.D. Picket; "The Yellowstone Park as a Game Reservation," by Arnold Hague; and "In Buffalo Days," by George Grinnell. This collection was released as part of a series of books by the Boone and Crocket Club, a club founded by Teddy Roosevelt with George Grinnell in 1887 for the preservation of large game animals and their habitats in the United States.