CHAPTER XXIV, 



CAPTIVE MOUNTAIN GOATS 



Record of Captive Goats Exhibited — Perilous Capture by Smith and 

 Norboe — An Easy Capture — A Game Warden in Trouble — First 

 Specimens for New York — Others from Fort Steele — Shipping 

 Animals by Express — The Author Becomes Travelling Companion 

 for Five Goat Kids — Traits in Captivity — A Glance Backward. 



Up to this date, the entire history of the mountaia 

 goat in captivity is very brief. Although quite a num- 

 ber have been caught in various places, only a very 

 few have lived long enough to change hands and be 

 seen of men. 



The first living mountain goat ever captured or pho- 

 tographed (s.f.a.k.) was a big male captured near Deer 

 Lodge, Montana, about 1880, and taken alive to that 

 town. For sixteen years I have been in possession of a 

 dim photograph of that animal, taken as he stood with 

 two ropes around his neck. *' Deer Lodge Billy " lived 

 only a short time. His alleged weight of 480 pounds is 

 quite beyond belief. 



In 1899 two goats were purchased of Dick Rock by 

 Charles W. Dimick, and exhibited at the Sportsmen's 

 Show, in Boston. They lived on a farm in New England 

 for about one year longer, then died of lung troubles. . 



In 1902 the Philadelphia Zoological Society came 



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