GREAT-GAME FIELDS 



found in the American West a hundred years ago. 

 What will it be a hundred years hence? Will not 

 its story be the same as that which the country of 

 Lewis and Clark shows today? 



Most of us are obliged to do our big-game hunt- 

 ing closer at home, so we accept the compromise 

 forced on us by civilization and meekly go for a 

 rather tame big-game hunt to Wyoming, Ontario, 

 Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, where we can find 

 elk or moose, caribou or deer. Not so long ago one 

 could go to Manitoba and get not only moose but 

 elk ; but the elk of that country, as well as of North- 

 ern Minnesota, are now almost a negligible quan- 

 tity in sport and ought not to be pursued too closely. 



In the Canadian Rockies there are a few moun- 

 tain sheep where the Indians have not killed them 

 off, an occasional grizzly, and, in certain districts, 

 rather an abundance of white goats. In our own 

 Rockies there is a fairly sure chance to get an elk 

 probably with nothing like the sort of antlers 

 which could be found twenty years ago. Not even 

 these dwindling antlers would be available, except 

 for the great-game preserve of Yellowstone Park. A 

 few states still allow mountain sheep to be shot, and 

 in different parts of the Rockies blacktail or mule 

 deer are fairly abundant. In the Cascade system, 

 as we may call the upthrust of our mountains which 



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