Big Game in the Rockies 



Some eight or ten years ago it was by no 

 means difficult, for one who knew where to go 

 and how to hunt, to get excellent shooting 

 in northwestern Wyoming. Large game was 

 then moderately abundant, with the excep- 

 tion of buffalo. The latter had just been 

 exterminated, but, bleaching in the sun, the 

 ghastly evidences of man's sordid and selfish 

 policy lay exposed at every step. 



Indian troubles of a very formidable char- 

 acter did a great deal toward keeping the 

 game intact in this portion of the country by 

 keeping the white man out, and while other 

 parts of Wyoming grew, and towns sprang up 

 with rapid growth to become in an incredibly 

 short time cities, involving in destruction, as 

 the past sad history shows, the wild animals 

 in their vicinity, this Northwestern portion re- 

 mained unsettled, and acted as an asylum to 

 receive within its rocky .mountain-ranges and 

 vast sheltering forests the scattering bands 



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