CHAPTER XX 



SHEEP, ANTELOPE, AND MOOSE 



LEEK chose a romantic spot for our camp 

 in the Gros Ventre valley under the lee 

 of a grassy knoll, close to the river. A 

 grove of fragrant fir trees was at our back, and 

 directly across the river a precipitous mountain 

 rose to lofty heights. Here we were encamped 

 for three nights, spending our days in the 

 saddle. 



As previously stated, this is the upper winter 

 range of the Jackson's Hole elk, and here, as in 

 the lower valley, though to a smaller extent, for 

 fewer elk winter here than there, we found the 

 remains of many animals that had perished. 

 Leek found one old head with a sixty-three-inch 

 spread and measuring sixty inches along the 

 outside of the horn. This was not a record 

 head, but close to the largest bona fide head 



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