'The Boone and Crockett Club 



way much game, chiefly elk, sheep and antelope, 

 was saved from destruction. Many hunting 

 parties coming in from Montana were turned back 

 and several arrests were made, one man being 

 followed over one hundred miles before he was 

 caught. 



The hostility and odium incurred by the pro- 

 jectors of this movement to enforce the game laws 

 was very great, and many threats were made of 

 what would be done to them ; but in the picturesque 

 language of the time and country neither Pickett, 

 Rogers nor Paton "scared worth a cent." Jim 

 Gehman had already shot his man in self-defense, 

 and had demonstrated that he was not to be trifled 

 with. 



An amusing incident of this working toward 

 protection occurred at this time, when a prominent 

 member of the Boone and Crockett Club, unac- 

 quainted with the law, came into the mountains to 

 hunt, and fell into Jim's hands. He was obliged 

 to turn back. 



The good work went on during the following 

 year, 1889, an d much less feeling was shown by 

 the residents, as they began to realize that what 

 was being done was for the best interests of all. 



In September, 1888, Colonel Pickett had been 

 elected to the Legislature of Wyoming, and took 



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