American Big Game in its Haunts 



mmation. So far as I have ever been able to learn, 

 these sheep range, or did range, on all the moun- 

 tains to the north, west, and south of Tucson, 

 within a hundred miles or so. I know of them in 

 the Superstition Mountains, about a hundred 

 miles to the north; in the Quijotoas Mountains, 

 a like distance to the southwest, and in the moun- 

 tains intermediate; I have no positive proof of 

 their existence in the Santa Ritas, but about twenty- 

 three years, ago I saw a pair of old and weather- 

 beaten horns that had been picked up in that range 

 near Agua Caliente, that is about ten or twelve 

 miles southwest of Mt. Wrightson. I never saw 

 any sheep in the range, nor do I know of any one 

 more fortunate than myself in that respect. In 

 days gone by the Santa Catalinas, the Rincon, and 

 the Tucson Mountains were the most prolific hunt- 

 ing grounds for the market men. So far as I can 

 remember, the first brought to the market here 

 were subsequent to the coming of the railroad in 

 1880. They were killed In the Tucson Mountains 

 by the 'Logan boys,' well known hunters at that 

 time. Later the Logans made a strike in the mines 

 and disappeared. For several years no sheep were 

 seen, but finally Mexicans began killing them In 

 the Santa Catalinas, and occasionally six or eight 

 would be hung up In the market at the same time. 



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