The Wapiti and his Antlers. 



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hanging about, left me no time for escape, and I was knocked 

 down. Fortunately by his hind quarters and not by " the business 

 end " of the beast, as my trapper facetiously remarked when I 

 narrated to him this incident. 



My two Austrian friends, Counts Ernst Hoyos and Ferd. 

 Trauttmansdorff, who in 1887 made, what I think was, in some 



COUNT E. HOYOS' WAPITI. 



respects, one of the most successful shooting expeditions ever 

 undertaken by European or American sportsmen, secured some 

 fine wapiti heads in the region to which I advised them to go, 

 i.e., the headwaters of the Green River and Snake River, on the 

 western slope of the Windriver range. Their heads rank well up 

 in the list of trophies, and had the guns been able to stay longer 



