WESTERN CAMP LIFE 



WE read of the big game which once 

 frequented the Western part of the 

 United States in such large numbers; yet in 

 traveling over that section in a Pullman it 

 is surprising that we seldom see any evidence 

 of it. Leaving the line of the railway and 

 settlement, the monotony of the sterile plain 

 covered with sagebrush is unrelieved by signs 

 of animal life, except horses and cattle and 

 occasionally herds of sheep. The old life 

 has passed and the new has hardly developed 

 sufficiently to supply its place. 



Here and there may be found spots which 

 excite the ardor of sportsmen, but they are 

 generally inaccessible except through the 

 agency of a competent guide. The great 

 herds of buffalo which once swept over the 

 plains in such vast numbers as to endanger 

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