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Index. 



Roosevelt's, Elliott, buffalo hunt, 232 ; 



his diary, 233 



Roosevelt, West, 35 ; John, 232 

 Round-up, the, starting for, 22 ; at work, 



24, 43, 100 ; loss of sleep at, 55 

 Rutting, the, season, 30, 94 



Sage, Mr. A. J., 382 



Sage fowl, 112 



Settling of the West, 12 



Sheep, bighorn, see Bighorn 



Shapes taken by American wilderness, 



1-3 

 Shooting, poor, 36 ; running game, 42 ; 



a caribou, 150 ; hints on, 192 

 Shoshone Indians, hunting-party of, 194 ; 



their method of hunting, 195 

 Silver thaw, a, 155 

 Sioux, a fight with, 431 

 Slough, stuck in a, 112 

 Snow-shoes, hunting on, 225 ; two kinds 



used, 226 



Soldiery of the backwoods, 7 

 Sounds, in the wilderness, 68, 69 ; in the 



forest, 146 

 Stalking, antelope, 62, 63 ; the bighorn, 



106-109 ; a bull elk, 191 ; buffalo, 240 

 Stalk, an early, 165 

 Stampede of buffalo, 241 

 Start for a hunt, the, 40 

 Striking camp in bad weather, 199 

 Stump, Judge Yancy, 401 ; his hounds, 



401 

 Sword-Bearer, the Crow medicine chief, 



436 



Tale of western life, a, 420 



Tepee or wigwam of an old hunter, 77 ; 



a tepee, 179 



Tompkins, Old Man, 47, 168 

 " Town," a new western, 418 

 Track-hounds, 40 

 Trappers, the early, 10 

 Travelling, difficult, 113, 119, 134, 157 

 Trout, an abundance of, 175 

 Two-Ocean Pass, 186 



Unsportsmanlike killing of deer, 37 

 Upper Geyser Basin, 200 



Valley, a lovely, 103 

 Venison of elk as a diet, 175 

 Visitor at the ranch, a, 43 



Wadsworth, Mr. Austin, 369 



Walker, General W. H., and the 



buffaloes, 245 

 Wapiti (bull), habits of, 162 ; cowardice 



of, 163 ; fight between two, 159 

 Wapiti, the, 4, 15 ; Pugnacity of, 161 ; 



ways of fighting, 163 ; the "whistling" 



of the, 164 ; gait of, 167 ; on the Little 



Missouri, 167; antlers of the, 170; 



noblest of his kind, 202 

 Washington as a sportsman, 457 

 Water-ousel, 135 

 Water-shrew, capture of a, 136 

 Water-wren, the 174 

 Waters, Wilbur, 257 

 Whisky-jack, the, 175 

 Whitney, Caspar W., 323 

 Wildcat, the, often hunted with hounds, 



171 



Wilderness, the American, i 

 Williams, Colonel Roger D., 366, 410 

 Willis, John, ill, 131, 156 

 Wolfers, the, 388 

 Wolf, the, 17 ; where found in United 



States, 386, 389 ; varieties of, 386 ; 



colors of, 387 ; wholesale killing of, 



388 ; scarcity of, 388 ; difficult to hunt, 



389 ; size of, 391 ; attacks cattle, 392 ; 

 cunning of, 394 ; food of, 395 ; rarely 

 attacks man, 397 ; should be hunted 

 with dogs, 398 ; hunting the, 402 ; 

 killed by hounds, 407 



Wolverine Pass, 195 



Wood buffalo, 247 



Woods on fire, the, 133' / 



Woody, Tazewell, no, 179, 187, 196, 



3". 431 



Wranglers, night- and day-, 23, 58 



"Yard," a, 223 



