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when the latter secured a record grizzly north 

 of Glenwood Springs a few years ago. 



Previous to going West I had corresponded 

 with fish and game commissioners, game war- 

 dens, licensed guides, and others, in the States 

 through which I planned to travel and had re- 

 ceived from them estimates of the amount of 

 game still remaining in the various localities 

 with which they were familiar, the amount of 

 each of several kinds of animals killed during 

 the previous year, and the number of legalized 

 hunters. It will be understood how difficult 

 it is to make a close estimate of wild animals 

 covering a large spread of country. 



When one pauses to consider the vast ex- 

 tent of territory included, even in a single one 

 of our Western States, this will be appreciated. 

 There are several States, for example, much 

 larger than Colorado, but when we remember 

 that Colorado alone has an area equal to the 

 combined areas of Maine, New Hampshire, 

 Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode 

 Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and 

 Hawaii, with enough territory left over to make 

 a new State considerably larger than Massachu- 

 setts, some conception can be formed of the 

 real bigness of the West. 



A State larger than Massachusetts could be 



