Hunting at High Altitudes 



wonder that they did when first witnessed. The 

 scenes of this season were different in character. 

 There were views from mountain peaks over the 

 vast plains to the east, where the Yellowstone was 

 bounded by peaks of the Big Horn Range, one of 

 which has been said to be 12,000 feet in height. 

 The weather was very pleasant. There were no 

 extremes of heat and cold, such as we had faced 

 the autumn before when on our return we endured 

 for almost a month a temperature of from 25 to 

 40 degrees below zero. The first touch of winter 

 came September 4, when there were two days of 

 snowstorm, leaving six inches of snow on the 

 ground. 



During these two months from the camp on the 

 head of Meeteetse Creek and the camp on the Grey 

 Bull and from intermediate camps I killed nineteen 

 grizzlies, the majority of them large, with well 

 furred robes. Four grizzlies had been killed be- 

 fore this, but in two cases the robes were not good 

 and were not saved. Twenty-one hides were taken 

 into winter quarters at Bozeman. 



By careful observation of the habits of this bear 

 I had become skillful in approaching near enough 

 without alarming the animal, to deliver a deliber- 

 ate shot in a fatal part. Of the twenty-three bears 

 killed during the season, seventeen required only a 



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