GREAT-GAME FIELDS 



they are close to Yellowstone Park. The country 

 below and west of the park is a good game district 

 even yet in the fall, but the demands on it are ex- 

 treme. 



Suppose we forsake the Rockies, the Sierras, the 

 Cascades, and even the Canadian Rockies and the 

 Selkirks, as game fields today, and pass on to the 

 extreme north, which now is beginning to open up 

 to travel. For two thousand miles north of Edmon- 

 ton one will be in moose country occasionally good 

 districts and bad but one might make a trip there 

 without success, for there is an extreme amount 

 of country and some of it does not abound in game. 

 One must know the district and the seasons for the 

 game. Transportation is meager and outfitting is 

 difficult. The routine trip down the Mackenzie 

 River is not one to invite the big-game hunter. Side 

 trips, which take time, must be made, and for these 

 the fur-trade steamers cannot stop. 



On the pass of the Rockies between the mouth 

 of the Mackenzie River and the head of Porcupine 

 River there is a district, very little visited, where 

 there are mountain sheep. It is a two-year proposi- 

 tion to make a good hunt in that region and it is 

 too difficult to warrant the undertaking, though 

 that is one of the least-visited parts of this continent. 



At the head of the Black River, one of the Yukon 

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