INDEX 



Accidents to the ranch wagon, 46 ; to 



cowboys, 427 

 Americans in the wilderness, 44 

 American, the, wilderness, i ; hunting- 

 books, 454 

 Ammal, 143 ; superstition of, 145 

 Animals, legitimate killing of, 448 

 Antelope, 4, 17, 56, 62 ; enemies of, 73 ; 

 curiosity of, 74 ; winter haunts of, 76 ; 

 characteristics of, 95 

 Army, the regular, and hunting, 13 



Bad Lands, view of the, 28 



Battle ground, 112 



Bauman's goblin story, 441 



Bear, the black, 17 ; the grisly, 17 ; 

 charged by a, 138 ; shooting a, 138 ; 

 species of, 267 ; old hunters on, 266 ; 

 cattle-killing by, 273 ; prey on each 

 other, 280 



Bear (the black), where found, 255 ; 

 hunted with dogs, 257 ; trapping, 260 ; 

 feed of, 262 ; size of, 264 



Bear (the grisly), 265 ; size of, 269 ; hab- 

 its of, 270 ; fond of fish, 281 ; food of, 

 282 ; haunts of, 285 ; rutting season, 

 286 ; cubs, 287 ; hunting with dogs, 

 290 ; stalking, 294 ; hunting, 296 ; 

 charged by, 305 ; a dangerous antago- 

 nist, 307 ; ways of fighting, 314 



Bears, modes of hunting, 287 ; shooting 

 trapped, 289 ; attacks by, 327, 330 ; 

 lassoing, 332 



Bear-trapper, danger to, 290 



Beaver Dick, 182 



Big Hole Basin, climate of, 113 



Bighorn, sheep, 17, 49 ; tracks of the, 

 103 ; of the Bad Lands, 104 ; rutting 

 season of, 104 ; haunts of, 104 ; re- 

 quirements of a hunter of the, 104 ; 

 stalking, 106-109 '< wariness of, 109 



Bison, tracking a band of, 250 ; shooting 

 a bull, 253 



Boone, Daniel, 6 



Branding cattle, 25 



Buckcr, a bad, 41 



Buffalo Bill's cowboys, 381 



Buffalo, the American, last herd of, II, 

 13, 14 ; vast herds of, 230 ; slaughter 

 of, 231 ; stampede of, 241 ; stalking, 

 240 ; charge of, 243 ; mountain, 247 



Buffalo hunt of Elliott Roosevelt, 232 



Buffaloes, Gen. W. H. Walker's experi- 

 ence with, 245 



Burroughs, John, 452 



Bull-dog flies, 115 



Calf wrestlers, 26 



California Joe, 319 



Camp, gossip of a, 58 ; returning to, 151 



Camping out, 48 



Camp-kit, a good, 180 



" Calling," hunting by, 218 



Caribou, the woodland, 16 ; signs of the, 

 147 ; tracks of the, 148 ; shooting a, 

 150; the author's first hunt for, 152; 

 the habits of the, 154 ; hide of, 214 



Carson, Kit, 9 



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