American Big Game in its Haunts 



parts of southwestern Colorado, as that State pro- 

 tects sheep." 



Mr. W. J. Dixon, of Cimarron, Kan., wrote 

 me in May, 1898, as follows: "In 1874 or '75 I 

 killed sheep at the head of the north fork of the 

 Purgatoire, or Rio de las Animas, on the divide be- 

 tween the Spanish Peaks and main range of the 

 Rocky Mountains, southwest by west from the 

 South Peak. I was there also in November, 1892, 

 and saw three or four head at a distance, but did 

 not go after them. They must be on the increase 

 there." 



In 1899 there was a bunch of sheep in east 

 central Utah, about thirty miles north of the sta- 

 tion of Green River, on the Rio Grande Western 

 Railroad, and on the west side of the Green River. 

 These were on the ranch of ex-member of Con- 

 gress, Hon. Clarence E. Allen, and were care- 

 fully protected by the owners of the property. 

 The ranch hands are instructed not to kill or 

 molest them in any manner, and to do nothing that 

 will alarm them. They come down occasionally 

 to the lower ground, attracted by the lucerne, as 

 are also the deer, which sometimes prove quite a 

 nuisance by getting into the growing crops. The 

 sheep spend most of their time in the cliffs not far 

 away. When first seen, about 1894, there were 



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