82 HUNTING TRIPS 



ing kept us warm in spite of the bitter 

 weather; we only wore our fur coats and 

 shaps while on horseback, leaving them 

 where we left the horses, and doing our still- 

 hunting in buckskin shirts, fur caps, and 

 stout shoes. 



Big-horn, more commonly known as 

 mountain sheep, are extremely wary and 

 cautious animals, and are plentiful in but few 

 places. This is rather surprising, for they 

 seem to be fairly prolific (although not as 

 much so as deer and antelope), and com- 

 paratively few are killed by the hunters ; in- 

 deed, much fewer are shot than of any other 

 kind of western game in proportion to their 

 numbers. They hold out in a place long 

 after the elk and buffalo have been exter- 

 minated, and for many years after both of 

 these have become things of the past the big- 

 horn will still exist to afford sport to the 

 man who is a hardy mountaineer and skilful 

 with the rifle. For it is the only kind of 

 game on whose haunts cattle do not tres- 

 pass. Good buffalo or elk pasture is sure 



