American Big Game in its Haunts 



There are a very few sheep in the Wolf 

 Mountains of Montana. 



There are still mountain sheep among the rough 

 bad lands on both sides of the Missouri River, 

 between the mouth of the Musselshell and the 

 mouth of Big Dry. It is hard to estimate the 

 number of these sheep, but there must be many 

 hundreds of them, and perhaps thousands. As re- 

 cently as August, 1900, Mr. S. C. Leady, a ranch- 

 man in this region, advised me that he counted 

 in one bunch, coming to water, forty-nine sheep. 



Mr. Leady further advised me that in his coun- 

 try, owing to the sparse settlement, the game laws 

 are not at all regarded, and sheep are hunted at all 

 times of the year. The settlers themselves advo- 

 cate the protection of the game, but there is really 

 no one to enforce the laws. Recent advices from 

 this country show that the conditions there are now 

 somewhat improved. 



It is probable that in suitable localities in the 

 Missouri River bad lands sheep are still found in 

 some numbers all the way from the mouth of the 

 Little Missouri to the mouth of the Judith River. 



Mr. O. C. Graetz, now, or recently, of Kipp, 

 Montana, advised me, through my friend, J. B. 

 Monroe, that in 1894, in the Big Horn Mountains, 

 Wyo., on the head of the Little Horn River, in 



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