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this region. What Catlin saw may have, been young 

 male mountain sheep or perhaps ewes of that species. 

 On the other hand there are two perfectly good records 

 for the white goat far south of this region, in Colo- 

 rado, as I pointed out in a paper published many 

 years ago in Forest and Stream. One of these was 

 killed by John Willis, a former hunting partner of 

 Colonel*Roosevelt, and only a few years ago residing 

 at or near Malta, Montana. 



Goats have been traditionally reported from moun- 

 tain ranges near the Hoback River, but so far as 

 known, none have ever been taken there. On the 

 other hand, they are found in Idaho not very far to 

 the west and northwest of that section. 



56. This was known among the hunters as Elk 

 Lake, and was much frequented by elk, deer and 

 mountain sheep. To-day it is inclosed in a meadow 

 belonging to a ranchman named Smith. 



57. The south fork of this stream is known as 

 Sunlight, and the valley above the canon is called 

 Sunlight Basin, and occupied by ranchers. 



58. James Walters' cabin was on the east bank of 

 the Boulder near where the Northern Pacific road 

 now crosses that stream. His wife may have been a 

 Crow woman, but I think she was a Piegan. Walters 

 had lived with the Indians a great many years. He 

 was always a little afraid the Bannocks would kill 

 him in revenge for his having killed a Bannock Indian 

 many years before. When the Bannocks under Ten- 



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