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International Wild Game Collection |
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This
collection belongs to Dr. and Mrs. John H. Brandt of Alamosa,
Colorado The Alamosa Cultural Center and Museum is the dream of Dr. Brandt and he has been instrumental in bringing it to fruition. He is a former Vice-President of the Safari Club International and was chairman of the Trophy Records Committee that developed head scoring techniques and turned out the SCI Record Book. Dr. Brandt is currently a Zoology Research Associate of the Denver Museum of Natural History and is a cattle rancher in the San Luis Valley. Dr. Brandt graduated from Adams State College in 1954 and earned his PhD in Environmental Biology at Tulane University. His ethnological collections are in the Smithsonian Institution, The American Museum of Natural History, The Royal Ontario Museum, The Milwaukee Museum, The Kenosha Museum, The Anthropology Museum of Mexico, and the University of New Mexico. He has written and published extensively in a number of scientific journals on ornithology, entomology, ethnology, and epidemiology. He is the author of several books including Hunters of Man: Man-Eaters, Man-Killers and Rogues, Horned Giants: The Eur-Asian Wild Cattle, Asian Hunter, and Soul of the Hunter: A Half Century of Big Game Hunting. Dr. Brandt is presently working on identification of newly discovered animals from Vietnam and Laos in cooperation with the University of Kansas. |
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