1 6 HUNTING TRIPS 



this season a man may travel for days 

 through regions where antelope are most 

 plentiful during the hot months and never 

 see one ; but if he does come across any they 

 will be apt to be in great numbers, most prob- 

 ably along the edge of the Bad Lands, where 

 the ground is rolling rather than broken, but 

 where there is some shelter from the furious 

 winter gales. Often they will even come 

 down to the river bottom or find their way 

 up to some plateau. They now always hang 

 closely about the places they have chosen for 

 their winter haunts, and seem very reluctant 

 to leave them. They go in dense herds, and 

 when starved and weak with cold are less 

 shy ; and can often be killed in great numbers 

 by any one who has found out where they 

 are though a true sportsman will not mo- 

 lest them at this season. 



Sometimes a small number of individuals 

 will at this time get separated from the main 

 herd and take up their abode in some place 

 by themselves ; and when they have once 

 done so it is almost impossible to drive 



