Sport and Life. 



course of a year they succeeded in getting several, but I was told 

 only one reached California alive. Four hardy mountaineers of 

 Deerlodge devoted a full year to the task of catching the wary 

 animals, necessarily living all the time, even in winter, in the 

 inhospitable regions above timber-line. They succeeded in doing 

 so by bringing them to bay with trained hounds on some rocky 

 ledge, and then approaching from above and lassoing the cornered 

 victims while they were busily engaged keeping the dogs off 



THE ANTELOPE-GOAT OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 

 Photograph of a very large live specimen said to have weighed 48olb. 



by vicious thrusts of their sharp horns. On such occasions they 

 are jnost dangerous to approach, for they are perfectly reckless, and 

 have fierce courage, great muscular activity, and wonderful tenacity 

 of life, and one can imagine how difficult the whole proceeding 

 must have proved amid the deep snow and winter gales of those 

 inhospitable regions. 



One of the rams caught by these hunters is supposed to have 

 been by far the biggest of its kind ever seen, a claim one cannot 

 dispute provided its reported weight is true. It was brought alive 

 to Deerlodge and kept in confinement there for some time. A 



