Exceptionally scarce on the market, we trace none on the market or at auction. An important piece of outdoorsman, hunting, fishing, and conservation history.

Forest and Stream was the first and most successful American magazine dedicated to hunting, fishing, outdoor sports such as baseball, and conservation activities and information in the United States. It was, in fact, the first explicitly conservationist periodical published in any country, helping found the the National Audobon Society, the National Park Movement, etc. 

The journal was founded in August 1873 by Charles Hallock. The present volume, being the first ever issued, is exceptionally rare. It was in operation until 1930 when it merged with Field and Stream.

Make sure to scour the detailed contents listing. A large folio, in 11 x 16 format, with incredible primary resource content not located anywhere else or reprinted. 

Naturalist George Bird Grinnell was editor for 35 years, and contributors included Theodore Roosevelt. Another notable contributor was Theodore Gordon, long considered "the father of American dry fly fishing."

Hallock, Charles [ed.]. Forest and Stream, A Weekly Journal Devoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, Fish Culture, the Protection of Game, Preservation of Forests, and the Inculcation in Men and Women of a Healthy Interest in Out-Door Recreation and Study. Volume I. Thursday, August 14, 1873 - Thursday, February 5, 1874. 26 Issues, Complete. New York. Forest and Stream Publishing Company. 1874. 416pp.

Contents include:

Forest and Stream. A Poem by Isaac McLellan | Anticosti - The Journal of a Naval Officer [Series] | The Pre-Adamite by J. J. Roche | Trout Tales from the Nepigon [Series] | Carrier Pigeons | The Long Island Fires | Cricket in the United States | Does Racing [Horse] Encourage Gambling? | The Kennel [Dog Breeding] | Killing Game Out of Season } An Old Authority on Guns | Humors of Sporting Life [Illustrated Cartoon] | How the Indian Kill Trout | Shark Fishing in the Long Island Sound | Snipe Shooting in Virginia | The Striped Bass | On Stocking Trout Waters with Bass | The Thousand Islands | Winninnish Fishing on the Saguenay | Bit of an Adder | The Irish Sun Fish | The Preservation of Our Forests | The Miramichi for Salmon | Hunting Jack Rabbits | A Dangerous Indian Boy | Chopping Down the Redwood Trees | Woorari, or Curare | The Graphic Balloon | Veterinary Science in Former Times | A Day with the Naturalists | Prairie Chicken Shooting | America's Game and Fish Superior to those of Europe | An Old Sportsman of the Seventeenth Century | How They Catch Mustangs | Migrations of Fish | Moccasins | Killing a Grizzly Bear | Down the Potomac [Series] by Charles A. Pilsbury | Grouse Shooting in Indiana | Venomous Lizards | Can the Jelly-Fish Sustain Life? | Sport along the Northern Pacific | Elk Hunting in Nebraska | Metaphysics of Deer Hunting | Down among the Mollusca | My First Interview with a Nitchee | A Six-Pound Trout | A Hunt with the Yankton Sioux | Various Accounts of Baseball Games that Include the White Stockings of Philadelphia, the Mutuals, New York Athletics, the Bostons, etc., | Death of Sir Edwin Landseer | The Wild Turkey | The Creedmoor Prize Contest - Match of the National Rifle Association | Advertisements for Remington Rifles and Shot Guns, &c | The Influence of Forests on Air and Soil and their Climatic and Hygienic Importance by Charles Plaggi | Destruction of Buffalo | The Naturalist in Florida | Propagation of Salmon | Experience with a Young Setter | Calling Moose in New Brunswick | The Manatee, or Sea Cow | The Question of Irrigation in the Far West | Fossils in Colorado | The Lady Argonauts | The Rifle Matches at Creedmoor | How Wolves Hunt Deer | The Art of Frying Fish | The Indian River of Florida | The Moorish Coffee House | Will Black Bass Take a Fly? | The Central Park Menagerie | Camping among the Seminoles [Series] by Fred. Beverly | Advertisements for Dealers in Ivory, Ice Skates, Taxidermy, Dog Breeders, Hunting Clothiers, Iron Work, Tackle and Guns, etc. | Oyster Pie | An Otahjtian Romance [Tahiti] | The New York Association for the Protection of Game | Fishing in the Bahamas | Sportsmen vs. Poachers | A Reminiscence of Lake Superior | Training Setter Puppies | Indian Smoke Signals | Value in Horse-Flesh | The Fishes of East Florida | Winter Sports in Canada [Series] | My First Deer Hunt | The Urari Poison | The Grouse and Quails of North America | The Fishing Tourist in America | The Mexican Donkey and His Driver | Cuba, Ornithologically | Buffalo Hunting with the Yawnees | The Sorghum Bay Sea Serpent  [Like Loch Ness Sea Monster] | Among the Adirondacks | Trapping a Cunning Fox | The Forests and their Effects on Man | The Back Lakes of Canada | Distemper in Dogs | Cariboo Hunting | What They Think of Our Rifle Movement in England | Fishing in Lake Pepin, Minnesota | The Great Octopus | Report of the National Amateur Base Ball Convention [at Princeton] | California Indians | A Place for the Naturalist in Legislation | Georgia Fox Hounds | Breaking Retrievers | Summer Sports in Canada | Snoe-Shoeing in Maine | Guns - A Dialogue [Fascinating on Hand-Made vs. Machine-Made Guns] | Rifle Shooting in the Olden Time and in the Present Day | Plus content on Yachting, Taxidermy, Trapping, Recipes for Wild Game, Gardening and Raising Crops, Notices of New Hunting and Naturalist Books, Kennel Clubs, Dog Breeding, Horse Racing and Breeding, etc. etc. etc. 

Very good in early buckram. Clean and sound in large 11 x 16 folio format. We did  note one sheet printed crooked on the sheet resulting in minor losses at the bottom; this appears to be a printer issue rather than a binding issue.