CHAPTER VII 



HUNTING WITH HOUNDS 



IN hunting American big game with hounds, 

 several entirely distinct methods are pur- 

 sued. The true wilderness hunters, the men 

 who in the early days lived alone in, or moved 

 in parties through, the Indian-haunted soli- 

 tudes, like their successors of to-day, rarely 

 made use of a pack of hounds, and, as a rule, 

 did not use dogs at all. In the Eastern for- 

 ests occasionally an old-time hunter would 

 own one or two track-hounds, slow, with a 

 good nose, intelligent and obedient, of use 

 mainly in following wounded game. Some 

 Rocky Mountain hunters nowadays employ 

 the same kind of a dog, but the old-time trap- 

 pers of the great plains and the Rockies led 

 such wandering lives of peril and hardship 

 that they could not readily take dogs with 

 them. The hunters of the Alleghanies and 

 the Adirondacks have, however, always used 

 hounds to drive deer, killing the animal in 

 the water or at a runway. 



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