Big Game in the Rockies 



and companion of all my hunting trips, Taz- 

 well Woody, a grizzled veteran of the moun- 

 tains, who once long ago claimed Missouri as 

 his home. From the ranch to the mountains 

 is a comparatively short trip, for one day's 

 travel to the westward would place you well 

 up on their slopes. 



Let me say of this portion of the range 

 that it is the most rugged, broken, and pre- 

 cipitous of its whole extent, and the charm of 

 overcoming its apparent inaccessibility can 

 only be appreciated by one who has toiled 

 and sweated in surmounting the difficulties of 

 mountain travel from a pure love of nature in 

 its wildest and grandest form. 



Experience having taught me long ago 

 that it was well nigh impossible to get good 

 specimens of all the different varieties of big 

 game on any one trip, I made up my mind 

 to devote a certain amount of time each year 

 to one variety. By this means their habits 

 could be studied more closely, and the main 

 point never lost sight of. In a short paper 

 like this I may best take up the chief of these 

 varieties one by one, and, without regard to 



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