APPENDIX 



IN this volume I have avoided repeating what was 

 contained in either of my former books, the Hunt- 

 ing Trips of a Ranchman and Ranch Life and the 

 Hunting Trail. For many details of life and work 

 in the cattle country I must refer the reader to these 

 two volumes; and also for more full accounts of 

 the habits and methods of hunting such game as deer 

 and antelope. As far as I know, the description in 

 my Ranch Life of the habits and the chase of the 

 mountain-sheep is the only moderately complete ac- 

 count thereof that has ever been published. The 

 five game-heads figured in this volume are copied 

 exactly from the originals, now in my home; the 

 animals were, of course, shot by myself. 



There have been many changes, both in my old 

 hunting-grounds and my old hunting-friends, since 

 I first followed the chase in the far Western coun- 

 try. Where the buffalo and the Indian ranged, 

 along the Little Missouri, the branded herds of the 

 ranchmen now graze; the scene of my elk-hunt at 



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