The Mountain Sheep and its Range 



Peace River, and it is hardly to be doubted that 

 they know Stone's sheep. The Brewster Bros., of 

 Banff, Alberta, inform me that Stone's sheep is 

 found on the head of Peace River. 



A dozen or fifteen years ago one of the greatest 

 sheep ranges that was at all accessible was In the 

 mountains at the head of the Ashnola River, in 

 British Columbia, and on the head of the Methow, 

 which rises in the same mountains and flows south 

 into Washington. This is a country very rough 

 and without roads, only to be traversed with a 

 pack train. 



Mr. Lew Wilmot writes me that there are still 

 quite a number of sheep ranging from Mt. 

 Chapacca, up through the Ashnola, and on the 

 headwaters of the Methow. Indeed, it Is thought 

 by some that sheep are more numerous there now 

 than they were a few years ago. In Dyche's 

 "Campfires of a Naturalist" a record Is given of 

 sheep in the Palmer Lake region, at the east base 

 of the Cascade range in Washington. 



The Rev. John McDougall, of Morley, Alberta, 

 wrote me in 1899, in answer to Inquiries as to the 

 mountain sheep inhabiting the country ranged over 

 by the Stony Indians, ''that it Is the opinion of 

 these Indians that the sheep which frequent the 

 mountains from Montana northward as far as our 



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