CONTENTS 



CHAPTER V 



PAGE 



The Mountain Goat at Home 46 



Our Welcome to Goatland — Three Goats Stampede through our Camp — 

 A Wild Spot — Mountain Color on a Gray Day — An Early- Morning 

 Caller — Goats at Rest — How Goats Climb — Stalking Two Big 

 Billies — Two Goats Killed — Measurements and Weight. 



CHAPTER VI 



On Bird Mountain : Photographing Mountain 

 Sheep 65 



A Mountain Cyclorama — The Continental Divide — Phillips Peak — 

 A Land Unmapped and Unmeasured — Mountain Altitudes along Elk 

 River — Statement by Geologist McEvoy — Mountain Sheep Atoot — 

 Photographing Two Sheep on the Goat Rocks — Sheep and Goats Seen 

 at the Same Moment. 



CHAPTER VII 



A Great Day with Goats 77 



Goats Far Up — The Climb, and its Difficulties — An Elusive Pair — Ten 

 Big Billies at Hand — Observations of an Hour — Four Goats Killed, 

 and Utilized — The Tallest Goat, and the Heaviest — Rolling Car- 

 casses — Down Avalanche Creek to a Beautiful Camp. 



CHAPTER VIII 



The Mountain Goat as we Saw Him 92 



A Mountain Goat's Paradise — General Character of the Animal — Its 

 Place in Nature — Not an "Antelope" — Description — Distribution — 

 Food — Sleeping-Places — Accidents in Snow-Slides — Swimming — 

 Stupid or Not Stupid — Courage — A Philosophic Animal — Affection 

 — Fighting Powers — A Goat Kills a Grizzly — Bear-Shy Goats — 

 The Tragedy of the Self-Trapped Goats. 



CHAPTER IX 



Timber-Line and Summit 127 



One-Eyed Men in the Mountains — A Mountain Savant — A Climb in 

 False Notch — Foot and Nerve Exhaustion — A Daring Goat — Ex- 

 periments — The Component Parts of Mountain-Sides — Temperature 

 Record of a Climber — A Great Basin and a Bull Elk — A Tree 

 Scarred by a Mountain Ram. 



