ELK HUNT IN WYOMING 



cealed from us as we had been from them. 

 There must have been at a conservative 

 estimate not less than 400 in the herd, and 

 possibly 500. A sportsman could only ad- 

 mire this striking and beautiful spectacle 

 because there was no head worth securing. 

 A tooth hunter or a butcher, with a high- 

 power repeating rifle, could have repeated 

 one of those scenes which sickens every lover 

 of sport. 



At another time I came upon a band of 

 elk quite as numerous, and, although there 

 were a couple of good heads in view, yet the 

 number of cow elk was so great that it was 

 practically impossible to get a good shot. 

 The entire mass fled straight up the side of 

 a steep mountain covered with quaking aspen 

 and spruce. For some time we could see 

 them crowding one another in dense masses 

 in their ascent, but the only shot attempted 

 was with the camera, and without success. 



One more instance, which will not only aid 

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