Capt.
Bogardus finally retired from the grueling road trips of entertainment,
opening shooting galleries
in
Lincoln, Springfield, and Hot Springs Ark.
– continuing to enjoy the sport that had long sustained him.
His health declined in 1912, but he lingered
until Easter Sunday of Mar. 23, 1913, and was laid to rest in Elkhart
Cemetery.
In his 79 years of life, he had been a
hunter,
carpenter, market hunter, dog breeder, Civil War Veteran, World Famous
Wing-Shot, author, showman, ornithologist conservationist, & inventor.
He was near his peak of physical fitness
during those “shoot against the clock days”- except for a bad leg.
When the
Trapshooting Hall of Fame
inducted
its first members in 1969, Capt. Adam H. Bogardus was one of the very
first selected.
