American Big Game in its Haunts 



occur to him to shoot at the game among which 

 he rode. I have seen sheep feeding on the prairies 

 with antelope, and in little groups by themselves 

 in North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, and 

 men whose experience extends much further back 

 than mine — men, too, whose life was largely de- 

 voted to observing the wild animals among which 

 they lived — unite in telling me that they were 

 commonly found in such situations. Personally I 

 never saw sheep among buffalo, but knowing as I 

 do the situations that both inhabited and the ways 

 of life of each, I am confident that sheep were 

 often found with the buffalo, just as were antelope. 

 The country of northwestern Montana, where 

 high prairie is broken now and then by steep buttes 

 rising to a height of several hundred feet, and 

 by little ranges of volcanic uplifts like the Sweet 

 Grass Hills, the Bear Paw Mountains, the Little 

 Rockies, the Judith, and many others, was a 

 favorite locality for sheep, and so, no doubt, was 

 the butte country of western North Dakota, South 

 Dakota and Nebraska, this being roughly the 

 eastern limit of the species. In general it may be 

 said that the plains sheep preferred plateaus 

 much like those inhabited by the mule deer, a 

 prairie country where there were rough broken 

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