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Index. 



Roosevelt's, Elliott, buffalo hunt, 232 ; 



his diary, 233 

 Roosevelt, West, 35 ; John, 232 

 Round-up, the, starting for, 22 ; at work, 



24, 43. 100 ; loss of sleep at, 55 

 Rutting, the, season, 30, 94 



Unsportsmanlike killing of deer, 37 

 Upper Geyser Basin, 200 



Valley, a lovely, 103 

 Venison of elk as a diet, 175 

 Visitor at the ranch, a, 43 



Sage, Mr. A. J., 382 



Sage fowl, 112 



Settling of the West, 12 



Sheep, bighorn, see Bighorn 



Shapes taken by American wilderness, 



1-3 

 Shooting, poor, 36 ; running game, 42 ; 



a caribou, 150 ; hints on, 192 

 Shoshone Indians, hunting-party of, 194 ; 



their method of hunting, 195 

 Silver thaw, a, 155 

 Sioux, a fight with, 431 

 Slough, stuck in a, 112 

 Snow-shoes, hunting on, 225 ; two kinds 



used, 226 

 Soldiery of the backwoods, 7 

 Sounds, in the wilderness, 68, 69 ; in the 



forest, 146 

 Stalking, antelope, 62, 63 ; the bighorn, 



106-109 ; a bull elk, 191 ; buffalo, 240 

 Stalk, an early, 165 

 Stampede of buffalo, 241 

 Start for a hunt, the, 40 

 Striking camp in bad weather, 199 

 Stump, Judge Yancy, 401 ; his hounds, 



401 

 Sword-Bearer, the Crow medicine chief, 



436 



Tale of western life, a, 420 



Tepee or wigwam of an old hunter, 77 ; 



a tepee, 179 

 Tompkins, Old Man, 47, 168 

 " Town," a new western, 418 

 Track-hounds, 40 

 Trappers, the early, 10 

 Travelling, difficult, 113, 119, 134, 157 

 Trout, an abundance of, 175 

 Two-Ocean Pass, 186 



Wadsworth, Mr. Austin, 369 



Walker, General W. H., and the 



buffaloes, 245 

 Wapiti (bull), habits of, 162 ; cowardice 



of, 163 ; fight between two, 159 

 Wapiti, the, 4, 15 ; Pugnacity of, 161 ; 



ways of fighting, 163 ; the "whistling " 



of the, 164 ; gait of, 167 ; on the Little 



Missouri, 167; antlers of the, 170; 



noblest of his kind, 202 

 Washington as a sportsman, 457 

 Water-ousel, 135 

 Water-shrew, capture of a, 136 

 Water-wren, the 174 

 Waters, Wilbur, 257 

 Whisky-jack, the, 175 

 Whitney, Caspar W., 323 

 Wildcat, the, often hunted with hounds, 



171 

 Wilderness, the American, i 

 Williams, Colonel Roger D., 366, 410 

 Willis, John, iii, 131, 156 

 Wolfers, the, 388 

 Wolf, the, 17 ; where found in United 



States, 386, 389 ; varieties of, 386 ; 



colors of, 387 ; wholesale killing of, 



388 ; scarcity of, 388 ; difficult to hunt, 



389 ; size of, 391 ; attacks cattle, 392 ; 

 cunning of, 394 ; food of, 395 ; rarely 

 attacks man, 397 ; should be hunted 

 with dogs, 398 ; hunting the, 402 ; 

 killed by hounds, 407 



Wolverine Pass, 195 



Wood buffalo, 247 



Woods on fire, the, 133 



Woody, Tazewell, no, 179, 187, 196, 



311, 431 

 Wranglers, night- and day-, 23, 5S 



" Yard," a, 223 



