Behind every legendary big game animal there is a great story. The Boone and Crockett Club, North America's premier wildlife conservation organization, presents 30 remarkable tales of top-scoring trophies--and the determined sportsmen who harvested them. Readers will trace the steps of self-guided hunters who traversed the deep backcountry in pursuit of North America's wildest, wiliest big game animals--including cougar, caribou, mule deer, elk, bighorn sheep and more.

Introduction | Jason MatzingerSagamore Hill Award WinnersIntroduction | Hanspeter GigerFinest Ever Taken | Frank Cook | Dall's SheepWorld Record Dall's Sheep | Harry L. Swank, Jr., | Dall's SheepMore Short Stories About Sagamore Hill Award Winners | Hanspeter GigerWhen the Unexpected Happens | Garry Beaubien | Mountain CaribouThe Longest Night | Michael J. O'Haco | PronghornA Good December | Charles E. Erickson, Jr. | Coues' WhitetailBrilliant Idea | Gernot Wober & Lawrence Michalchuk | Rocky Mountain GoatGoing SoloThe Old Warrior | Fred Peters | Black Bear The King | Lester H. Miller | Columbia Blacktail Deer27 Years Later | Gene R. Alford | CougarClancy the Caribou | Paul T. Deuling | Mountain CaribouLady's Day in the High Country | Mavis M. Lorenz | Bighorn SheepTrinity Dream Come True | J. Peter Morish | Columbia Blacktail DeerOut of NecessityRecord on a Meat Hunt | L.S. Chadwick | Stone's SheepPolar Bear Number 9 | Robert B. Nancarrow | Polar BearMy Last Bull | Duane R. Richardson | BisonA Stone for the Ages | R. Terrell McCombs | Stone's SheepWe Got A Stomper | Rip Rippentrop | Bighorn SheepWhen the Smoke Clears | Thomas L. Mello | Tule ElkLiving the Dream | Timothy R. Carpenter | Roosevelt's ElkSharing the ExperienceMexico's Wild Desert Sheep | Alberto Tapia Landeros | Desert SheepOur Grizzly Hunt | Roger J. Pentecost | Grizzly BearThe Fold | Donald F. Blake | Canada MooseChristmas, a Day Early | William B. Bullock | Coues' WhitetailMagic Moment | L. Victor Clark | Mule DeerThe Best Present | John R. Johnson | Alaska-Yukon MooseKilling the Wind | Michael L. Ward | Alaska Brown BearEmotional High | Mary A. Isbell | Shiras' MooseOur Lucky Hunt | Kyle Lopez | Mule DeerAs Luck Would Have It | Carla A. de Kock | Musk OxMoose of a Lifetime | Robert J. Condon | Alaska-Yukon MooseScience Behind Keeping Records | Justin Spring