There are the books of Sir Samuel W. Baker: he was a big-game hunter of the mid-to- later 1800's. His Wild Beasts and Their Ways and few others are over at Project Gutenberg. He seemed to have never met an animal he didn't want to shoot. I have no evidence to support it, but I've always wondered if it was Sir Samuel that PG Wodehouse was thinking of, when he wrote the story Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court, that has the poem that begins "when cares attack/and life seems black/how sweet it is/to pot a yak". The "elephant guns" of the muzzle-loading days could require a lot of determination. Shooting a belted ball that often weighed four ounces, they were brutal to both target and the shoulder of the hunter. Sir Samuel actually owned one that shot an eight ounce ball....he complained about the punishment: but he still was eager to blaze away.

There are also the writings also of Frederick Selous, also over at P.G., like his African Nature Notes. Selous wasn't bloodthirsty as Baker. Early on he too had to use the same punishing guns, and would later say that his nerves never recovered. He was around later on in the Teddy Roosevelt era when conservation suddenly seemed like a good idea, and his life ( ended by a German sniper in WWI) was an interesting one.

There's also issues of Field and Stream, if you can find them. They can give you a picture of outdoor sports in the US from 1895 onwards.

EDIT Field and Stream put out a 100th anniversary collection in 1995, and at the time I read some of the earlier articles ( there aren't that many, alas). None of the big game stories sticks in my mind, but there is memoir of a bird hunting expedition out onto the plains circa 1900 that required seemingly a whole railroad car full of ammunition, and brought down hundreds of birds.

There wasn't a lot of published information in the years that you are looking for. There were many hunting HH guides in North America but many of them could not write. There really wasn't any hunting guides that made their entire living from guiding hunters either. Most of them did it as a sideline to their regular jobs.

Jack Conners was an author in the 1950's who wrote many articles in outdoor life magazine and several books on the subject. His articles seemed to have helped bring GH guided hunting trips into the mainstream. His articles helped increase the desires of people to go hunting and the number of people willing to go on a trip.

In British Columbia all a person needed to do was buy a permit from the game warden and he could take a group of people hunting. There were no defined areas for people to hunt in and nobody had tenure on a specific area until the late '60s. This caused over hunting in many regions of the province which led to the hunting guides meeting with the Government and drawing up defined hunting territories that the guides now owned and had tenure over.

My father was a horse wrangler for a guide outfitter in 1945 and ran his own guiding area from the early 1950's until his death. My brother and I took over and ran his area until we got an offer that we couldn't refuse and sold out in 2008. I grew up in the mountains and have been on many hunts over the past 50 odd years.

If you have any questions about how we hunted and lived in the woods feel free to ask.