GREAT-GAME FIELDS 



Alaska trips, or any of the yet longer ones required 

 for the Northwest Territory, deeper into the con- 

 tinent. One must plan at least six months ahead, 

 for transportation is a desperate thing in that far 

 country. 



The Kenai Peninsula, of Alaska, was one of the 

 most splendid game districts of all the world not 

 many years ago. Big-game hunters of all the sport- 

 ing races of the world went there and shot the coun- 

 try so hard that at length the United States had 

 to put a ban on the export of moose heads and re- 

 strict the killing of game very sharply. There is 

 game left in the Kenai country now, but you can no 

 longer call it one of the cinches. The finest moose 

 heads in all the world came out of the Kenai Penin- 

 sula moose that would make the best product of 

 New Brunswick or Ontario look like thirty cents. 

 They also make your pocketbook look like thirty 

 cents today when you go in after them. 



Still, you can get good moose in many parts of 

 Alaska, and also the white or Ball's sheep, or the 

 black sheep, known as Stone's sheep, as well as the 

 ordinary Rocky Mountain bighorn. Alaska still 

 may be called a great-game country. The Yukon 

 even yet is a highway into splendid game fields ; but 

 every mining camp, such as Dawson, Iditarod, Fair- 

 banks, Ruby City, Circle City wherever miners go 



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