CHAPTER VIII. 



In the Cascades Extermination of Many Species of Animals 

 Something about the Rocky Mountain Goat An 

 Arduous Journey The Cascades Reached Wholesale 

 Hunters In Camp A Failure. 



>T is a fact well known to every reader 

 that the American buffalo, or bison, 

 is now practically extinct as a wild spe- 

 cies. A few years more and this will 

 also be true of such animals as the elk, moose, Rocky 

 Mountain sheep and goats, caribou, musk ox, lion or 

 puma, gray wolf and bears, while deer, foxes, and nu- 

 merous other smaller animals will become very rare. 

 The moose formerly ranged from Maine to Idaho 

 and was quite common in all suitable parts of the 

 northern tier of States and Territories. During the 

 past few years only a few stragglers have been re- 

 ported in these places. It is but a few years since 

 the beaver was said to be one of the most common 

 wild animals in the State of New York. It is now 

 questionable whether there is a single wild beaver in 

 the State. Twenty years ago beaver were common 

 along all the streams of Kansas. Ten years ago they 

 were often found. Now they are rare, and in less 

 than ten years there will not be a wild one, except by 

 chance, in the State. Buffalo, antelope, deer, elk, 



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