Index. 



471 



Hunting, from the ranch house, 30 ; on 

 foot, 31 ; with track hounds, 40 ; trip, 

 duration of a, 46 ; the pronghorn, 74, 

 Si ; trip to the antelope winter haunts, 

 77, 80 ; trip, provisions on a, 102 ; 

 hardships met with in, 114 ; modes of, 

 bears, 287 ; retrospect, 200 



Indians catching eagles, 72 



Jackson's, General " Red," encounter 



with a grisly, 334 

 Javalina, see Peccary 

 Jones, Colonel James, 220 



Kentucky, the settlement of, 6 



King, Clarence, 246, 275 



Kootenai Lake, 131 ; camping by, 132 



Lamoche's, Baptiste, adventure with a 



bear, 328 



Landscape, a dreary, 56 

 Lark, meadow, 64, 65 ; plains, 64 

 "Latigo Strap," 59, 60 

 Lavishness of nature on the Pacific 



slope, 5 



Laws, game, needed, 449 

 Letter from an old hunter, 425 

 Lewis' woodpecker, 174 

 Little Missouri, hunting on, 18 ; wapiti 



on the, 167 

 Lucivee, the, 171 ; food of the, 171 ; 



easily killed with dogs, 171 

 Lynx, northern, see Lucivee 



Marcy, General, 399 



Maverick bulls, 26 ; lassoing of, 27 



McMaster, Prof. J. Bache, 109 



Meadowbrook hounds, hunting with, 373 



Merriam, Dr. Hart, 264 



Merrill, Dr. James C., 310 



Mexican wild hog, see Peccary 



Miller's fight with a bear, 320 



Mocking-bird, the, 66, 68, 349 



Moore, Mr. John, 348 



Moose-bird, the, see Whisky-jack 



Moose, the, 14 ; giant of deer, 203 ; 

 haunts of, 204, 214 ; fruitless hunting 

 of, 205 ; stalking a bull moose, 207 ; 



not found in herds, 215 ; food of, 216 ; 

 easily tamed, 216 ; bulls during the 

 rut, 217 ; able to defend itself, 217 ; 

 footprints of, 211 ; flesh of, 214 ; hide, 

 214 ; gait, 220 ; will attack a hunter, 

 221 



Mountain buffalo, 247 



Mountain ptarmigan, see Snow grouse 



Nicknames, 424 

 Nightingale, the, 66 

 Nut-pine, northern, 190 



" Old Ephraim," see Grisly bear 

 Old Ike, killed by a bear, 317 

 "Old Manitou," 102, 105 

 OX, the, a steer outfit, 21, 24 



Pack-animals, hunters', 179 ; perversity 

 of, 181 



Packing, skill required in, 178 ; in the 

 rain, 185 



Pack-rats, 69 



Peccary, 18 ; where found in the United 

 States, 348 ; unprovoked attacks by, 

 351 ; a band of, 357 ; how hunted, 

 358 ; at bay, 358 ; food of, 359 



Peculiarity of elk-trails, 189 



Perkins' adventure with a bear, 323 



Phillips, William H., 280 



Picturesque country, a, 182 



Pingree killed by a moose, 229 



Pitcher, Lieutenant John, 435, 439 



Plains country, the, 2 



Plains, the, weather of, 90 



Porcupine, the, 172 



Prindle, Old Man, 401 ; his hounds, 401 



Prong-bucks in rutting season, 94 



Pronghorn, see Antelope 



Rabbits, snow-shoe, 190 

 Ranch house, the, shut up, 51 

 Ranch life during the fall months, 2O 

 Riding, cross-country, 377 ; of cowboys, 



383 ; of Australians, 382 

 Rockhill, Mr., 271 

 Rogers, Archibald, 309 ; E. P., 220 



