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more than any other American, is entitled to speak upon 

 coursing, and especially upon coursing large game. Col. 

 Williams, like a true son of Kentucky, has bred his own 

 thoroughbred horses and thoroughbred hounds for many 

 years ; and during a series of long hunting trips extending 

 over nearly a quarter of a century he has tried his pack 

 on almost every game animal to be found among the 

 foot-hills of the Rockies and on the great plains. His 

 dogs, both smooth-haired greyhounds and rough-coated 

 deer-hounds, have been bred by him for generations with 

 a special view to the chase of big game — not merely of 

 hares ; they are large animals, excelling not only in 

 speed but in strength, endurance, and ferocious courage. 

 The survivors of his old pack are literally seamed all over 

 with the scars of innumerable battles. When several doers 

 were together they would stop a bull-elk, and fearlessly 

 assail a bear or cougar. This pack scored many a 

 triumph over blacktail, whitetail, and prong-buck. For 

 a few hundred yards the deer were very fast ; but in a run 

 of any duration the antelope showed much greater speed, 

 and gave the dogs far more trouble, although always 

 overtaken in the end, if a good start had been obtained. 

 Col. Williams is a firm believer in the power of the 

 thoroughbred horse to outrun any animal that breathes, 

 in a long chase ; he has not infrequently run down deer, 

 when they were jumped some miles from cover ; and on 

 two or three occasions he ran down uninjured antelope, 

 but in each case only after a desperate ride of miles, 

 which in one instance resulted in the death of his gallant 

 horse. 



