The Slaughter of Big Game, &c. 



recent days, if, indeed, it is not still going on, in spite of game laws 

 and a revulsion in the public opinion, has been the real cause of the 

 wapiti's rapid disappearance ; the further inducement, which fashion 

 has created, of endowing the antlers with a marketable value, doing 

 its share in hastening the extermination of this noble deer. 



SKIN HUNTERS AT WORK IN THE SEVENTIES. 

 Seven wapiti stags shot in one minute. 



Not a few English sportsmen's books, where they refer to this 

 topic, contain exaggerated tales of slaughter as reported to the 

 writers by Western Munchausens. The statement that men have 

 killed 2000 or 2500 wapiti in a few months, while pursuing their 



