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was forcible and has been effective for a time 

 at least. Not long ago the Federal authorities 

 issued permits, it was said, to a sheepman to 

 graze the open range of Jackson's Hole, and 

 the sheepman under the permits which he 

 claimed he held drifted several thousand sheep 

 across Teton Pass. When he appeared with 

 his flocks the settlers called an indignation 

 meeting to devise ways and means of keeping 

 him out. 



A committee was appointed to wait upon 

 him and advise him to leave quietly and at once. 

 He told the committee that he was there by 

 Federal license and intended to stay. The com- 

 mittee returned and reported, and another com- 

 mittee was appointed, supplied with ropes, and 

 instructed to see that no living sheepman or 

 sheep continued longer than three days on the 

 Jackson's Hole side of Teton Pass. The com- 

 mitteemen waited upon the sheepman and ad- 

 vised him and his herdsmen of their instruc- 

 tions and their intention of carrying out these 

 instructions literally. The sheepman saw the 

 point — and the rope — and discreetly departed. 



Thus Jackson's Hole was reserved for the 

 elk, not by government foresight, but by the 

 active interference of the settlers, who realized 

 that the only hope of preserving the animals 



