fti/feiope. 



IN the western part of the United States near the Rocky 

 Mountains as well as in the regions of the Upper Mississippi, 

 is found the Prong horned Antelope. Mr. Ruxton, in his 

 "Adventures in the Rocky Mountains," thus notices this 

 animal and the carcagieu. The antelope, the smallest of the 

 deer tribe, affords the hunter a sweet and nutritious meat, 

 when that of nearly every other description of game, from 

 the poorness and scarcity of grass during winter, is barely 

 eatable. They are seldom seen now in very large bands on 

 the grand prairies, having been driven from the old pastures 

 by the Indians and white hunters. The former, by means of 

 "surrounds," an inclosed space formed in one of the passes 



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