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bands of Sioux Indians from the Standino- 



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Rock and Cheyenne River reservations com- 

 ing in to hunt, and I at once felt that the 

 chances for much future sport in that par- 

 ticular district were small. Indians are not 

 good shots, but they hunt in great numbers, 

 killing everything, does, fawns and bucks alike, 

 and they follow the wounded animals with the 

 utmost perseverance, so that they cause great 

 destruction to game. 



Accordingly, in 1S94, when I started for 

 these same orrounds, it was with some mis- 

 givings ; but I had time only to make a few 

 days' hunt, and I knew of no other accessible 

 grounds where prongbuck were plentiful. My 

 foreman was with me, and we took the ranch 

 wagon also, driven by a cowboy who had just 

 come up over the trail with cattle from Colo- 

 rado. On reaching our happy hunting grounds 

 of the previous season, I found my fears sadly 

 verified; and one unforeseen circumstance also 

 told against me. Not only had the Indians 

 made a great killing of antelope the season 

 before, but in the spring one or two sheep 

 men had moved into the countr}'. We found 

 that the big flocks had been moving from one 

 spring pool to another, eating the pasturage 



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