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Adventure Anecdotes of Plainsmen Good and Bad 

 Shots A Wagon Trip A Shot from the Ranch-house 

 Veranda The Columbian Blacktail 50 



CHAPTER IV 



ON THE CATTLE RANGES; THE PRONG-HORN ANTELOPE 



Riding to the Round-up The Open Plains Sights and 

 Sounds Gophers, Prairie Dogs, Sharp-tail Grouse, 

 Antelope The Cow-camp Standing Night Guard 

 Dawn Make an Antelope Hunt An Easy Stalk A 

 Difficult Stalk Three Antelope Shot The Plains 

 Skylark The Meadow-Lark The Mocking - bird 

 Other Singers Harsher Wilderness Sounds Pack 

 Rats Plains Ferret, Its Ferocity The War Eagle- 

 Attacks Antelope Kills Jack-Rabbit One Shot on 

 Wing with Rifle 70 



CHAPTER V 



HUNTING THE PRONG-BUCK; FROST, FIRE, AND THIRST 



Hunting the Prong-Buck Long Shots Misses Winter 

 Weather A Hunt in December Riding in the Bitter 

 Cold The Old Hunter's Tepee A Night in a Line 

 Camp An Antelope Herd Two Bucks Shot Riding 

 Back to Ranch The Immigrant Train Hunting in 

 Fall Fighting Fire A Summer Hunt Sufferings 

 from Thirst Swimming Cattle Across a Swollen 

 Stream Wagon Trip to the Black Hills The Great 

 Prairies A Prong-buck Shot Pleasant Camp Buck 

 Shot in Morning Continue our Journey Shooting 

 Sage Fowl and Prairie Fowl with Rifle 91 



CHAPTER VI 



AMONG THE HIGH HILLS; THE BIGHORN OR MOUNTAIN SHEEP 



A Summer on the Ranch Working Among the Cattle 

 Killing Game for the Ranch A Trip After Moun- 



