Contents. 



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CHAPTER IV. 



ON THE CATTLE RANGES ; THE PRONG-HORN ANTELOPE. 



Riding to the round-up — The open plains — Sights and sounds — Gophers, prairie 

 dogs, sharp-tail grouse, antelope — The cow-camp — Standing night guard — 

 Dawn — Make an antelope hunt — An easy stalk — A difficult stalk — Three 

 antelope shot — The plains skylark — The meadow lark — The mocking-bird — 

 Other singers — Harsher wilderness sounds — Pack rats — Plains ferret, Its 

 ferocity — The war eagle — Attacks antelope — Kills jack-rabbit — One shot 

 on wing with rifle .......... 55-73 



CHAPTER V. 



HUNTING THE PRONG-BUCK ; FROST, FIRE, AND THIRST. 



Hunting the prong-buck — Long shots — Misses — Winter weather — A hunt in 

 December — Riding in the bitter cold — The old hunter's tepee — A night in a 

 line camp — An antelope herd — Two bucks shot — Riding back to ranch — 

 The immigrant train — Hunting in fall — Fighting fire — A summer hunt — 

 Sufferings from thirst — Swimming cattle across a swollen stream — Wagon 

 trip to the Black Hills — The great prairies — A prong-buck shot — Pleasant 

 camp — Buck shot in morning — Continue our journey — Shooting sage fowl 

 and prairie fowl with rifle 74-99 



CHAPTER VI. 



AMONG THE HIGH HILLS ; THE BIGHORN OR MOUNTAIN SHEEP. 



A summer on the ranch — Working among the cattle — Killing game for the ranch 

 — A trip after mountain sheep — The Bad Lands — Solitary camp — The old 

 horse Manitou — Still-hunt at dawn — Young ram shot — A hunt in the Rocky 

 Mountains — An old bighorn stalked and shot — Habits of tlie game . loo-iio 



CHAPTER VII. 



MOUNTAIN GAME ; THE WHITE GOAT. 



A trip to the Bighole Basin — Incidents of travel with a wagon — Camp among 

 the mountains — A trip on foot after goats — Spruce grouse — Lying out at 

 night — A climb over the high peaks — Two goats shot — Weary tramp back 

 — A hunt in the Kootenai country — Hard climbing among the wooded 

 mountains — Goat shot on brink of chasm — Ptarmigan for supper — Goat 

 hunting very hard work — Ways and habits of the goats — Not much 

 decrease in numbers ......... 111-130 



