American Big Game in its Haunts 



seen at Pocotello, Idaho, and at one or two other 

 points west of there in the lava country along 

 Snake River and the Oregon short line. The 

 sheep were probably killed in the spurs and broken 

 ranges that run out on the west flank of the main 

 chain of the Rockies toward the Blue Mountains 

 of Oregon. 



Mr. William Wells, of Wells, Wyo., has very 

 kindly given me the following notes as to Colo- 

 rado, where he formerly resided. He says: 

 "During 1890, '91, '92, there were a good many 

 mountain sheep on the headwaters of Roan Creek, 

 a tributary of Grand River, in Colorado. Roan 

 Creek heads on the south side of the Roan or Book 

 Plateau, and flows south into Grand River. The 

 elevation of Grand River at this point is about 

 5,000 feet, and the elevation of the Book Plateau 

 is about 8,500 feet. The side of the plateau to- 

 ward Grand River consists of cliffs from 2,000 

 to 3,000 feet high, and as the branches of Roan 

 Creek head on top of the plateau they form very 

 deep box canons as they cut their way to the 

 river. It is on these cliffs and in these canons 

 that the sheep were found. I understand that 

 there are some there yet, but I have not been in 

 that section since 1892. On all the cliffs are 

 benches or terraces — a cliff of 300 to 1,000 feet 



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