American Big Game in its Haunts 



Fork of Snake River. There are sheep in the 

 Tetons, Gallatin-Madison range, and even on 

 M^unt Holmes. I have seen them around Electric 

 Peak, and so on north, along the west side of the 

 Yellowstone as far as the Bozeman Pass; but not 

 lately, for I have not been in those mountains for 

 a number of years. All along the range from the 

 north side of the Park to within sight of Living- 

 ston there are a few sheep. 



"On the Stinking Water, where I used to see 

 bands of fifteen to twenty sheep, now we only see 

 from three to five. Of late years I have seen very 

 few large rams, and those only in the Park. Last 

 summer Mr. Archibald Rogers saw a large ram at 

 the headwaters of Eagle Creek, very close to the 

 Park. In winter there are usually a few large 

 rams in the Gardiner Cafion. I hear that there 

 are a few sheep out toward Bozeman, on Mt. 

 Blackmore, and the mountains near there. 



"I believe that some of the reasons for the 

 scarcity of mountain sheep in this country are these : 

 First, the settlement of the plains country close to 

 the mountains, prevents their going to their winter 

 ranges, and so starves them; secondly, the same 

 cause keeps them in the mountains, where the 

 mountain lions can get at them; and thirdly, the 

 scab has killed a good many. I do not think that 



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