American Big Game in its Haunts 



be met a short distance back from the coast, and 

 the black sheep (Ovis stonei) on the hills about 

 Glenora and Telegraph Creek. Both of these 

 places are on the Stikine River, about one hundred 

 and fifty miles from its mouth, and so in Canadian 

 territory. 



It must be borne in mind that the rivers are the 

 only highways, for the country is very rough and 

 broken, and on account of the almost continuous 

 rainfall — until one has passed beyond the coast 

 range of mountains — the underbrush of southern 

 Alaska is very dense, offering every obstacle to the 

 progress of the sportsman. All the streams are 

 swift, and by no means easy to ascend. 



The Hudson's Bay Company has trading posts 

 at Glenora and Telegraph Creek, and during the 

 early summer sends a light draft side-wheel 

 steamer up the Stikine with a new stock of goods 

 and provisions. It would be well if one intended 

 to make the journey after the Stone's sheep to time 

 one's arrival at Fort Wrangell so as to take ad- 

 vantage of this steamer, thus doing away with the 

 hard river work. 



The game of Alaska which especially appealed 

 to me were the various bears. Large brown bears, 

 varying in species according to the locality, may 

 be found in almost all districts of Alaska. Besides 



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