The Mountain Sheep and its Range 



in the Salmon River, Pahsimeroi and Sawtooth 

 Mountains, all in Idaho. Mr. Bailey also found 

 them in Texas in the Guadaloupe Mountains and 

 in most of the ranges thence south to the boundary 

 line in western Texas. 



From what has already been said it will be seen 

 that in inaccessible places all over the western 

 country, from the Arctic Ocean south to Mexico, 

 and at one or two points in the great plains, there 

 still remain stocks of mountain sheep. Once the 

 most unsuspicious and gentle of all our large game 

 animals, they have become very shy, wary, and 

 well able to take care of themselves. In the Yel- 

 lowstone Park, on the other hand, they have re- 

 verted to their old time tameness, and no longer 

 regard man with fear. There, as is told on other 

 pages of this volume, they are more tame than the 

 equally protected antelope, mule deer or elk. 



Should the Grand Canon of the Colorado be set 

 aside as a national park, as it may be hoped it will 

 be, the sheep found there will no doubt increase, 

 and become, as they now are in the Yellowstone 

 Park, a most interesting natural feature of the 

 landscape. And in like manner, when game ref- 

 uges shall be established in the various forest 

 reservations all over the western country, this 



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