Contents. 



IX 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 HUNTING IN THE SELKIRKS ; THE CARIBOU. 



A camp on Kootenai Lake — Travelling on foot through the dense forests — Exces- 

 sive toil — Water shrew and water thrush — Black bear killed— Mountain 



climbing — Woodchucks and conies — The Indian Ammal — Night sounds 



A long walk — A caribou killed — A midwinter trip on snow-shoes in Maine 

 — Footprints on the snow — A helpless deer — Caribou at ease in the deep 

 drifts ....... 



131-155 



CHAPTER IX. 

 THE WAPITI OR ROUND-HORNED ELK. 



A hunt in the Bitter Root mountains — A trip on foot — Two bull elk fighting — 

 The peace-maker— All three shot — Habits of the wapiti — Their bugling — 

 A grand chorus — Shooting a bull at sunrise — Another killed near the ranch 

 — Vanishing of the elk — Its antlers — The lynx — Porcupine— Chickarees and 

 chipmunks— Clarke's crow — Lewis' woodpecker — Whisky-jack — Trout — 

 The Yellowstone canyon ......... 156-176 



CHAPTER X. 



AN ELK-HUNT AT TWO-OCEAN PASS. 



In the Shoshones — Travelling with a pack-train — Scenery — Flowers — A squaw- 

 man — Bull elk shot in rain while challenging — Storm — Breaking camp in 

 rain — Two-Ocean Pass — Our camp — A young ten-pointer shot — The moun- 

 tains in moonlight — Blue grouse — Snow-shoe rabbits — Death of a master bull 

 — The Tetons — Following a bull by scent — 111 luck — Luck changes — Death 

 of spike bull — Three bulls killed — Travelling home — Heavy snowstorm — 

 Bucking horse — Various hunts compared — Number cartridges used — Still- 

 hunting the elk .......... 177-202 



CHAPTER XL 

 THE MOOSE ; THE BEAST OF THE WOODLAND. 



The moose of the Rocky Mountains — Its habits — Difficult nature of its haunts — 

 Repeated failures while hunting it— Watching a marsh at dawn — A moose 

 in the reeds — Stalking and shooting him — Travelling light with a pack- 

 train — A beaver meadow — Shooting a big bull at dawn — The moose in 

 summer; in winter — Young moose— Pugnacity of moose — Still-hunting 

 moose — Rather more easy to kill than whitetail deer — At times a dangerous 

 antagonist — The winter yards — Hunting on snow-shoes — A narrow escape 

 — A fatal encounter .......... 201-220 



