viii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VI. 



PAGE 



A Peculiar Wedding- Journey Field Taxidermy A Typ- 

 ical Mountaineer Big Bear Talk The Cabin was 

 Looted A Lost Timepiece A Great Day for Talking, 76 



CHAPTER VII. 



In Indian Territory A Frontier Fiddler Life in a Dug- 

 outWild Turkeys, Wildcats, and other Wild Things 

 Surviving a Blizzard An Indian Dance An Em- 

 barrassed Professor Successful Hunting The Ex- 

 tinction of the Wild Turkey, 97 



CHAPTER VIII. 



In the Cascades Extermination of Many Species of Ani- 

 mals Something about the Rocky Mountain Goat 

 An Arduous Journey The Cascades Reached 

 Wholesale Hunters In Camp A Failure, . .118 



CHAPTER IX. 



The First Big-Horn How his Skin and Bones were Pre- 

 pared Habits of the Rocky Mountain Sheep, . . 134 



CHAPTER X. 



End of Sheep-HuntingHow the Sentinel Fell at his Post 

 A Peculiar Wound Finding the Noon Hour by 

 Stars How the Collection of Sheep was Completed, . 147 



CHAPTER XI. 



On Kettle River Okonagan Smith and his Lonely Ranch 

 The Great Northern Boundary Trials and Tribula- 

 tions" Fool Hens "Through Fallen Trees An Ar- 

 duous Journey, 162 



CHAPTER XII. 



In the Cascades A Forest Fire After Rocky Mountain 

 Goats The First Shot Down the Mountain A Suc- 

 cessful Hunter A Night of Hardships A Naturalist's 

 Labours, . 174 



