American Big-Game Hunting 
nooks, and enticing grassy parks, with ab- 
solute seclusion in mountain recesses admir- 
ably adapted for the homes of wild animals. 
It is the great diversity of its physical fea- 
tures, offering within a restricted area all the 
requirements for animal life, which fits it for 
the home of big game. Abundant food sup- 
ply, shelter from wind and weather in winter, 
cool ‘resorts jon) the uplands in summer, 
favorable localities for breeding purposes and 
the rearing of young, all are found here. 
The Park supplies what is really needed—a 
zoological reservation where big game may 
roam unmolested by the intrusion of man, 
rather than a zodlogical garden inclosed by 
fences, and the game fed or sustained more 
or less by artificial methods. To most trav- 
elers who make the accustomed tour and 
seldom leave the beaten track, it is a sur- 
prise and regret that they see so little game, 
and they are apt to question its existence in 
any considerable numbers. In summer the 
game seldom frequents the geyser basins or 
places of popular resort, but wanders about 
undisturbed by the throng of pleasure-seek- 
ers. If one wishes to see game he must 
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