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high mountains that they love. In the Rockies and 

 the Coast ranges they abound from Alaska south to 

 Montana, Idaho, and Washington; and here and 

 there isolated colonies are found among the high 

 mountains to the southward, in Wyoming, Colorado, 

 even in New Mexico, and, strangest of all, in one 

 or two spots among the barren coast mountains of 

 southern California. Long after the elk has followed 

 the buffalo to the happy hunting grounds the white 

 goat will flourish among the towering and glacier- 

 riven peaks, and, grown wary with succeeding gen- 

 erations, will furnish splendid sport to those hunters 

 who are both good riflemen and hardy cragsmen. 



