Hunting with Hounds 187 



years ; and during a series of long hunting trips 

 extending over nearly a quarter of a century 

 he has tried his pack on almost every game 

 animal to be found among the foothills of the 

 Rockies and on the great plains. His dogs, 

 both smooth-haired greyhounds and rough- 

 coated deer-hounds, have been bred by him 

 for generations with a special view to the chase 

 of big game not merely of hares; they are 

 large animals, excelling not only in speed but 

 in strength, endurance, and ferocious courage. 

 The survivors of his old pack are literally 

 seamed all over with the scars of innumerable 

 battles. When several dogs were together 

 they would stop a bull elk, and fearlessly as- 

 sail a bear or cougar. This pack scored many 

 a triumph over blacktail, whitetail, and 

 prong-buck. For a few hundred yards the 

 deer were very fast; but in a run of any dura- 

 tion the antelope showed much greater speed, 

 and gave the dogs far more trouble, although 

 always overtaken in the end, if a good start 

 had been obtained. Colonel Williams is a 

 firm believer in the power of the thorough- 

 bred horse to outrun any animal that 

 breathes, in a long chase; he has not infre- 

 quently run down deer, when they were 

 jumped some miles from cover; and on two 



