Contents. 



XI 



CHAPTER XVL 



THE COUGAR. 



Difficulty of killing the cougar — My own failures — Kill one in the mountains — 

 Hunting the cougar with hounds — Experience of General Wade Hampton 

 and Col. Cecil Clay — " Hold on, Penny " — What the cougar preys on — Its 

 haunts — Its calls — Rarely turns on man — Occasionally dangerous — In- 

 stances 335-347 



CHAPTER XVII. 

 A PECCARY HUNT ON THE NUECES. 



A trip in southern Texas — A ranch on the Frio — Roping cattle — Extermination 

 of the peccary — Odd habits — Occasionally attacks unprovoked — We drive 

 south to the Nueces — Flower prairies — Semi-tropical landscape — Hunting 

 on horseback — Half-blood hounds — Find a small band of peccaries — Kill 

 two — How they act when at bay — Their occasional freaks . . 348-360 



CHAPTER XVII.I. 



HUNTING WITH HOUNDS. 



Old-time hunters rarely used dogs — The packs of the southern planters — Cours- 

 ing in the West — Hunting with greyhounds near my ranch — Jack-rabbits, 

 foxes, coyotes, antelope, and deer — An original sportsman of the prairies — 

 Colonel Williams' greyhounds — Riding on the plains — Cross-country riding 

 — Fox-hunting at Geneseo — A day with Mr. Wadsworth's hounds — The 

 Meadowbrook drag hounds — High jumping — A meet at Sagamore Hill — 

 Fox-hunting and fetishism — Prejudices of sportsmen, foreign and native — 

 Different styles of riding ......... 361-385 



CHAPTER XIX. 



WOLVES AND WOLF-HOUNDS. 



The wolf — Contrasted with coyote — Variations in color — Former abundance — 

 The riddle of its extermination — Inexplicable differences in habits between 

 closely related species — Size of wolf — Animals upon which it preys — At- 

 tacking cattle ; horses ; other animals ; foxes, dogs, and even coyotes — 

 Runs down deer and antelope — Coyotes catch jack-rabbits — Wolves around 

 camp — A wolf shot — Wolf-hunting with hounds — An overmatch for most 

 dogs — Decinating a pack — Coursing wolves with greyhounds — A hunt in the 

 foot-hills — Rousing the wolves — The chase — The worry — Death of both 

 wolves — Wolf hounds near Fort Benton — Other packs — The Sun River 

 hounds — Their notable feats — Col. Williams' hounds .... 386-411 



