American Big-Game Hunting 



nooks, and enticing grassy parks, with ab- 

 solute seclusion in mountain recesses admir- 

 ably adapted for the homes of wild animals. 

 It is the great diversity of its physical fea- 

 tures, offering within a restricted area all the 

 requirements for animal life, which fits it for 

 the home of big game. Abundant food sup- 

 ply, shelter from wind and weather in winter, 

 cool resorts on the uplands in summer, 

 favorable localities for breeding purposes and 

 the rearing of young, all are found here. 

 The Park supplies what is really needed a 

 zoological reservation where big game may 

 roam unmolested by the intrusion of man, 

 rather than a zoological garden inclosed by 

 fences, and the game fed or sustained more 

 or less by artificial methods. To most trav- 

 elers who make the accustomed tour and 

 seldom leave the beaten track, it is a sur- 

 prise and regret that they see so little game, 

 and they are apt to question its existence in 

 any considerable numbers. In summer the 

 game seldom frequents the geyser basins or 

 places of popular resort, but wanders about 

 undisturbed by the throng of pleasure-seek- 

 ers. If one wishes to see game he must 



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