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extant, for it must be remembered that some of 

 those that at one time passed as record heads of 

 enormous proportions had been spliced. 



This, too, is a good mountain-sheep country 

 and several are killed each year on Sheep 

 Mountain, on the mountain opposite our camp, 

 and on others of the higher peaks near-by. In- 

 deed, an old buck came down to the river not 

 more than four hundred yards below us while 

 we were camped there. 



In a previous chapter it was stated that Wy- 

 oming probably has five hundred of the ap- 

 proximately seven thousand sheep remaining in 

 the United States. Of these five hundred one 

 hundred inhabit the Tetons. On the west side 

 of the Tetons domestic sheep are invading the 

 lower edge of the mountain-sheep range, with 

 the result that scab has appeared among the 

 latter. The statement that the sheep are in- 

 fected is based upon reports made me by two 

 sportsmen who killed sheep here during the 

 open season preceding my visit, both of whom 

 had killed infected animals. It would seem, 

 therefore, that there is no question that the 

 mountain sheep are infected, but how far the 

 infection has spread it is at present impossible 

 to say. It is not difficult, however, to prophesy 

 the result. A few years ago some of Wyoming 



