APPENDIX. 



IN this volume I have avoided repeating what was contained 

 in either of my former books, the Hunting 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 account 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 country. 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 Two Ocean 

 Pass is now part of the National Forest Reserve ; settlers and 

 miners have invaded the ground where I killed bear and moose ; 

 and steamers ply on the lonely waters of Kootenai Lake. Of my 

 hunting companions some are alive ; others among them my 

 staunch and valued friend, Will Dow, and crabbed, surly old 

 Hank Griffen are dead ; while yet others have drifted away, 

 and I know not what has become of them. 



I have made no effort to indicate the best kind of camp kit 

 for hunting, for the excellent reason that it depends so much 



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