Hunting at High Altitudes 



to be cows. During the day we saw forty-four 

 black- and white-tail deer, most of them very tame, 

 fifteen elk and forty or fifty antelope. Watching 

 the black-tail bucks through the glasses, I saw that 

 the horns had grown to the length of six or seven 

 inches. The animals were all very unsuspicious. 

 On the evening of May 17, I went back four 

 miles to the mountain used as a lookout, when I 

 killed the two bears. From here I counted eighty- 

 four elk and a few deer. A bear had disturbed 

 one of the elk carcasses left by Catlin a few days 

 before, and I watched by the bait until nearly 7 

 o'clock. I was just about starting for camp, when 

 what appeared to be a good-sized black bear ap- 

 peared on the high bench in the rear, and a little 

 to the northeast. It appeared to be going around 

 the base of the mountains, and was a mile and a 

 half distant. We mounted at once and rode 

 rapidly, trying to overtake him, for there was not 

 much daylight left. Following the direction he 

 took, about half a mile beyond the point where we 

 had last seen him, we got a glimpse of him beyond 

 a deep gulch, and just before he entered some pine 

 timber. As he had the wind of us, if we followed 

 on his trail, we crossed the gulch, descended the 

 ridge and entered the little patch of timber on the 

 other side, in the hope that if he came through we 



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