1 72 HUNTING TRIPS 



When, less than five years ago, cattle 

 were first driven on to the northern plains, 

 the white-tail were the least plentiful and 

 the least sought after of all the large game ; 

 but they have held their own as none of 

 the others have begun to do, and are al- 

 ready in certain localities more common 

 than any other kind, and indeed in many 

 places are more common than all other 

 kinds put together. The ranchmen along 

 the Powder River, for instance, now have 

 to content themselves with white-tail veni- 

 son unless they make long trips back among 

 the hills. The same is rapidly getting to be 

 true of the Little Missouri. This is partly 

 because the skin and meat hunters find the 

 chase of this deer to be the most tedious 

 and least remunerative species of hunting, 

 and therefore only turn their attention to it 

 when there is nothing else left to hunt, and 

 partly because the sheep and cattle and the 

 herdsmen who follow them are less likely 

 to trespass on their grounds than on the 

 grounds of other game. The white-tail is the 



