American Big Game In Its Haunts 



Some of the old localities where they were very 

 abundant In the early '70's, but now are never 

 seen, are Whalen Canon, Raw Hide Buttes, Hart- 

 vllle Mountains, thirty miles northwest of Ft. 

 Laramie, Elk Mountains, and the adjacent hills 

 fifteen miles east of Fort Steele, near old Fort 

 Halleck. They seem to have disappeared also 

 from the bad lands along Green River, south of 

 the Union Pacific Railroad, from the Freezeout 

 Hills, Platte Canon, at the mouth of Sweetwater 

 River, from Brown's Canon, forty miles northwest 

 of Rawlins, from the Seminole and Ferris Moun- 

 tains, and from many other places In the middle 

 and northeastern part of Wyoming." 



In Colorado, the mountains surrounding North 

 Park and west to the Utah line, had many moun- 

 tain sheep twenty-five years ago, but to-day old 

 hunters tell me that there are only two places 

 where one Is sure to find sheep. These are Hahn's 

 Peak and the Rabbit Ears, two peaks at the south 

 end of North Park. 



There were sheep In and about the Black Hills 

 of Dakota as late as 1890, for Mr. W. S. Phillips 

 has kindly Informed me that about June of that 

 year he saw three sheep on Mt. Inyan Kara. 

 These were the only ones actually seen during the 

 summer, but they were frequently heard of from 



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