American Big Game in its Haunts 



and forth, as the numbers were not always the 

 same. 



"We could take our horses up into either one 

 of the three hollows, and some of the sheep were 

 so tame that we have several times been within 

 fifty yards in plain sight, and had the sheep pay 

 very little attention to us. In one Instance two 

 ewes and lambs went on ahead of us at a walk for 

 several hundred yards, often stopping to look 

 back; and in another a sheep, after looking at us, 

 two horses and two dogs, across a canon 200 

 yards wide, pawed a bed in the slide rock and lay 

 down. In another case I drove about thirty head 

 of ewes and lambs to within thirty-five yards of 

 Mr. Shelden, and when he rose up in plain sight, 

 they stood and looked at him. When he saw that 

 there was no ram there, he yelled at them, upon 

 which they ran off about 400 yards, and then stood 

 and looked at us. 



"I do not think that these sheep had been 

 hunted, until this time, for several years. As 

 nearly as I could tell, they ranged winter and sum- 

 mer on nearly the same ground. At the top of the 

 range, facing the east, were overhanging ledges of 

 rock, and under these the dung was two feet or 

 more deep. 



"Either during the winter or early spring the 

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