Photographing Wild Game 
to those large enough to deserve a name and 
a place on the map. They are the great 
summer home of the deer and elk. Frequent 
rains cause a most abundant growth of 
herbage suitable for their food, and the 
higher ground provides cool retreats for the 
male deer and elk while their horns are 
growing and hardening. They never leave 
these plateaus until driven down by the snow. 
Here elk and deer have for the past few 
years existed in sufficient numbers to give 
abundant sport. Farther to the north, where 
these plateaus break into the sage-brush 
plains of Wyoming, antelope inhabit the 
larger parks, and from these feed up for some 
distance through more open timber on the 
slopes of the surrounding hills. In this more 
northerly locality I have succeeded in getting 
photographs of elk, antelope, and deer, all 
within a distance of but a few miles. 
My first experience with an ordinary 
camera soon showed me that, at the usual 
distances, pictures of game would be so 
small as to be of no use. With a year’s ex- 
perience to guide me, I began the construc- 
tion of a camera especially adapted for the 
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