1 6a HUNTING TRIPS 



I have never shot any elk in the imme- 

 diate neighborhood of where my cattle range ; 

 but I have had very good sport with them 

 in a still wilder and more western region; 

 and this I will now describe. 



During last summer we found it neces- 

 sary to leave my ranch on the Little Mis- 

 souri and take quite a long trip through 

 the cattle country of Southeastern Montana 

 and Northern Wyoming ; and, having come 

 to the foot of the Bighorn Mountains, we 

 took a fortnight's hunt through them after 

 elk and bear. 



We went into the mountains with a pack 

 train, leaving the ranch wagon at the place 

 where we began to go up the first steep rise, 

 There were two others, besides myself, in 

 the party; one of them, the teamster, a 

 weather-beaten old plainsman, who pos- 

 sessed a most extraordinary stock of mis- 

 cellaneous misinformation upon every con- 

 ceivable subject, and the other my ranch 

 foreman, Merrifield. None of us had ever 

 been within two hundred miles of the Big- 



