Big Game in the Rockies 
Some eight or ten years ago it was by no 
means difficult, for one who knew where to go 
and how to hunt, to get excellent shooting 
in northwestern Wyoming. Large game was 
then moderately abundant, with the excep- 
tion of buffalo. The latter had just been 
exterminated, but, bleaching in the sun, the 
ghastly evidences of man’s sordid and selfish 
policy lay exposed at every step. 
Indian troubles of a very formidable char- 
acter did a great deal toward keeping the 
game intact in this portion of the country by 
keeping the white man out, and while other 
parts of Wyoming grew, and towns sprang up 
with rapid growth to become in an incredibly 
short time cities, involving in destruction, as 
the past sad history shows, the wild animals 
in their vicinity, this Northwestern portion re- 
mained unsettled, and acted as an asylum to 
receive within its rocky mountain-ranges and 
vast sheltering forests the scattering bands 
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