American Big Game In Its Haunts 



the Llard River. Where this river sweeps south 

 through the Rocky Mountains to Hell's Gate, a 

 few of these animals are founds as far north as 

 Beaver River, a tributary of the Llard. None, 

 however, are found north of this, and I am thor- 

 oughly convinced that this is the only place where 

 these animals may be found north of the Llard 

 River. 



"I find that in the Cassiar Mountains and In the 

 Rocky Mountains they everywhere range above 

 timber line, as they do In the mountains of 

 Stickine, the Cheonees, and the Etsezas. 



"Directly to the north of the Beaver River, and 

 north of the Liard River below the confluence of 

 the Beaver, we first meet with Ovis dalli." 



A Stony Indian once told me that in his country 

 — the main range of the Rocky Mountains — there 

 were two sorts of sheep, one small, dark In color, 

 and with slender horns, which are seldom broken, 

 and another sort larger and pale in color, with 

 heavy, thick horns that are often broken at the 

 point. He went on to say that these small black 

 sheep are all found north of Bow River, Alberta, 

 and that on the south side of Bow River the big 

 sheep only occur. The country referred to all lies 

 on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. The 

 hunting ground of the Stonles runs as far north as 



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