Hunting at High Altitudes 



bucked off his new owner, giving him a high fall, 

 but as it happened without injury. It still remains 

 a mystery why this horse had waited for a day to 

 display his accomplishments, instead of doing so in 

 the presence of his new and old masters, and before 

 the bargain had been completed. An Indian will 

 not keep a bucking horse long, and this horse 

 proved to be very troublesome. Besides bucking 

 off his rider he would constantly pull up his picket 

 pin and be gone several days, being usually found 

 tangled up in a thicket. He was never of any use. 



The Indians often visited our camp and ate with 

 us. Sometimes we gave them one or two deer 

 carcasses that hung up in the camp. I was inter- 

 ested in their method of packing it. After remov- 

 ing the head, all the bones were taken out of the 

 carcass, leaving the meat attached to the hide. 

 Then by rolling the meat in the hide, it was easily 

 tied behind the saddle. The long experience of 

 the savage taught the white man a new trick. 

 Usually the white man lashes the stiff carcass, with 

 all its projections of legs, head and horns, on his 

 saddle, and then perhaps walks, leading his riding 

 horse for miles. 



In hunting here where game was so abundant, I 

 had an opportunity to try the efficacy of the express 

 ball on these animals up to the size of the elk. 



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