CHAPTER IV 



A SPORTSMAN'S EDEN 



OUR course was now directed toward Fort 

 Apache. We had made an almost com- 

 plete circuit of Ord and Thomas Peaks 

 and seen much of the adjacent wilderness since 

 reaching the West Fork of the White River. 

 As a result of our observations and inquiries 

 among cowmen, forest rangers, soldiers, and In- 

 dians who visit the region, I may say most posi- 

 tively that in spite of what was told me at Hol- 

 brook and elsewhere, not one elk remains in 

 the White Mountains of Arizona, and I am 

 satisfied that not one wild elk remains in Ari- 

 zona, for it is conceded that there are none on 

 the Mogollon Mesa. From the information 

 which I gathered, there is no doubt the last elk 

 was killed, or the last remnant of the herds that 

 once occupied the region migrated eastward, 



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