The Mountain Sheep and its Range 



formerly were great resorts for sheep, I have 

 found hiding places built of slabs of the trachyte 

 which forms the mountain, which were used by 

 the Indians for this purpose in part, as, later, they 

 were also used by the scouting warrior as shelters 

 and lookout stations from which a wide extent of 

 plain might be viewed. The sheep on the prairie 

 or on the foothills of such ranges, if alarmed, 

 would of course climb to the summit, and there 

 would be shot with stone-headed arrows. 



Mr. Muir has seen such shelters in Nevada, and 

 he tells us also that the Indians used to build cor- 

 rals or pounds with diverging wings, somewhat 

 like those used for the capture of antelope and 

 buffalo on the plains, and that they drove the 

 sheep into these corrals, about which, no doubt, 

 men, women, and children were secreted, ready 

 to destroy the game. 



Certain tribes made a practice of building con- 

 verging fences and driving the sheep toward the 

 angle of these fences, where hunters lay in wait to 

 kill them, as elsewhere mentioned by Mr. Hofer. 

 In fact, sheep in those old times shared with all 

 the other animals of the prairie that tameness to 

 which I have often adverted in writing on this 

 subject, and which now seems so remarkable. 



The Bannocks and Sheep Eaters depended for 

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