The Mountain Sheep and its Range 



the rough and rolling country he saw a band of 

 eleven sheep. The same man tells me that also 

 in 1894, in Sweetwater county, in Wyoming, near 

 the Sweetwater River, south of South Pass, on a 

 mountain known as Oregon Butte, he twice saw 

 two sheep. The country was rolling and high, 

 with scattering timber, but not much of it. In 

 this country, and at that time, the sheep were not 

 much hunted. 



Mr. Elwood Hofer, one of the best known 

 guides of the West, whose home is in Gardiner, 

 Park county, Mont., has very kindly furnished 

 me with information about the sheep on the bor- 

 ders of the Yellowstone National Park. Writing 

 in May, 1898, he says: "At this time sheep are 

 not numerous anywhere in this country, compared 

 with what they were before the railroad (Northern 

 Pacific Railroad) was built in 188 1. In summer 

 they are found in small bands all through the moun- 

 tains, in and about the National Park. I found them 

 all along the divide, and out on the spurs, between 

 the Yellowstone and Stinking Water rivers, and on 

 down between the Yellowstone and Snake rivers, 

 on one side, and the south fork of Stinking Water 

 River and the Wind River on the east. I found 

 sheep at the extreme headwaters of the Yellow- 

 stone, and of the Wind River, and the Buffalo 



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