"Daniel J. Singer...tells of the pursuit of cougar, jaguar, moose, bear...from British Guiana to Alaska...few have done so much actual hiking in the wilds." -Atlanta Constitution, Jan. 17, 1915

"Daniel J. Singer...big game hunter, writer on outdoor topics...died today...a noted hunter...author of the book 'Big Game Fields of America, North and South.'" -Buffalo Courier, Sept. 29, 1924

"Splendid hunting trips from South America to Alaska." -The Countryside, 1915

"Compelling...Singer has proved himself equally well versed in getting his game and getting the attention of his readers." -Forest & Stream, 1915

"Guaranteed to increase the circulation of any man with a drop of sporting blood."- The Judge, 1915

It has been said there is no more dangerous or desperate brute in the whole animal creation than the jaguar. The size of the jaguar, the largest cat in the New World, makes it a formidable enemy, being somewhat superior in size to the leopard.

In 1914, adventurer and big game hunter Daniel J. Singer (1875-1924), a wealthy heir of the sewing machine magnate, published a harrowing account of his hunting the jaguar in several chapters of his book "Big Game Fields of America: North and South."

Singer stalked big game in British Guiana, the Sierra Madres, the Rockies and Alaska. Over mountains and into jungles, over rapids and waterfalls, and into the heart of primeval forests, the author blazes his literary trail, which the reader may follow at his leisure in the harmless fastnesses of his library. From Alaska to the equator the author's travels have carried him through many and strange adventures in the hunt for big game.

But he has also stopped to listen to the strange sounds and voices of forest and jungle and wind swept slopes, and to drink in the wonderment of the solitudes and silences. The knowledge and inspiration thus won from the trail find informal and spontaneous expression in these records, most of which the author penciled in the shooting tent, or in the moonlight while he was awaiting some night prowler.

In describing a jaguar encounter, Singer writes:

"The wailing and clamor that smote our ears assured us that just beyond, in that intricate and tangled mass of almost inconceivable thick cover, that savage, crafty and powerful lord, the jaguar, was facing the pack. Then my eye lit upon something that held me for a long moment arrested, motionless. Close along a bough, its ears flat against its neck, its tail twitching, its lips drawn back from its yellow fangs in a vicious snarl, lay the handsomest jaguar I ever saw. From between their wide lids his eyes blazed into mine..."

In subsequent chapters we have some exciting accounts of sport in various parts of North America, beginning with a trip to Mexico. These include "Cougar Hunting," "With a Mormon Guide through the Sierra Madres," and "Northern Game Trails," in which the pursuit of moose, wild sheep, Rocky Mountain goat and black and grizzly bear is dealt with.

In describing how several Huskies succumbed to the "call of the wild," Singer writes:

"From the sable banks just across the river came a long woo-ooo-wow-wow, and then a great black wolf leaped to the very top of a spur. Sitting back on his haunches and pointing his jaws to the moon he rolled out on the night air what seemed a long appealing wail. The huskies appeared to be held by some impelling force from which they could not tear themselves. It was the strong and free, calling to his degenerate captive kinsmen to be wild. The huskies whined, trotted hither and yon— then melted into the night..."

A harrowing encounter with a grizzly was recorded:

"With a 'woof' of rage he charged straight for us and closed in about half the distance, with a miraculous speed of action, as of a mighty spring unloosed