Hunting in the Cattle Country 



same feat for the other side. Packed in this 

 way, the carcass always rides perfectly steady, 

 and can not, by any possibility, shake loose. 

 Of course, a horse has to have some little 

 training" before it will submit to being packed. 



The above experiences are just about those 

 which befall the average ranchman when he is 

 hunting antelope. To illustrate how much 

 less apt he is to spend as many shots while 

 after other game, I may mention the last 

 mountain sheep and last deer I killed, each 

 of which cost me but a single cartridge. 



The bighorn was killed in the fall of 1894, 

 while I was camped on the Little Missouri, 

 some ten miles below my ranch. The bot- 

 toms were broad and grassy, and were walled 

 in by rows of high, steep bluffs, with back of 

 them a mass of broken country, in many places 

 almost impassable for horses. The wagon was 

 drawn up on the edge of the fringe of tall cot- 

 tonwoods which stretched along the brink of 

 the shrunken river. The weather had grown 

 cold, and at night the frost gathered thickly 

 on our sleeping bags. Great flocks of sandhill 

 cranes passed overhead from time to time, the 

 air resounding with their strange, musical, 

 guttural clangor. 



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