GAME AND FISH RESORTS. l8l 



Laramie City. Elk, antelope, deer, mountain sheep, bears, sage hens, ducks 

 and geese. Reached as above. Guides $2 to $4 ; teams $5. 



Fort Saunders. Perhaps the best elk country is on the Laramie Plains, in the 

 vicinity of Fort Saunders, on the Union Pacific. 



Carbon County- 

 Medicine Bow. Elk, deer, antelope, sage hens. Reached via Union Pacific 

 Railroad. Board $3 ; teams $5. For good sport, camping is necessary. Rolling 

 and mountainous country. 



Percy. Elk, antelope, black tail deer, beavers, otters, etc. Mountain trout in 

 the streams, twelve miles from the station. Reached as above. Private board 

 $1.50 ; guides can be procured. Country rolling prairie. 



Separation. Antelope in abundance, deer, elk, mountain sheep, a few black 

 bears and cinnamon bears ; sage hens and jack rabbits plenty. Reached as above. 

 Private board $1 ; guides $3 j saddle and pack horses $4. Camping outfit can be 

 purchased at Rawlins, a station fourteen miles east. The country is rolling prai- 

 rie, hills and mountains. 



Rawlins. Bears, elk, black tail deer, mountain sheep, antelope, sage hens, 

 jack rabbits ; good trouting in the mountain streams. Reached as above. Board 

 !$i ; guides $2.50 to $3 ; teams and driver $4 to $6. The country mountainous, 

 with excellent camping grounds. 



Carbon. Elk, antelope, deer, bears occasionally, mountain sheep, sage hens, 

 rabbits, hares ; fish of diiFerent kinds. Reached as above. Hotel $2 ; guides $3 

 to $5 ; teams $7. The country is hilly and mountainous, with excellent camping 

 grounds. 



St. Mary's. Bears, elk, black-tail deer, antelope, some mountain sheep, jack 

 rabbits, sage hens, mountain grouse. Reached as above. Private board $i ; 

 guides $2. Provide for camping. Country hilly. 



Fort Steele. Elk, deer, antelope, mountain sheep, sage hens, ducks and geese. 

 Fish of different varieties. Reached via Union Pacific Railroad. Board $1 ; 

 teams $5. In bad weather the game are found in the valleys ; in fine weather 

 they retire to the mountains. 



Xaratnie County — 



Cheyenne City. Deer, elk, antelope, bears, mountain sheep, mountain lions ; 

 excellent trouting. Reached via the Union Pacific Railroad. Hotel and private 

 board, $1 to $4 ; teams $5.; guides at reasonable rates. For best sport camp out. 

 Rolling prairie, with the Rocky Mountains fifty miles distant. 



Pine Bluff. Black-tail deer, and mountain sheep are abundant on the hills, 

 antelope on the prairies, bears on Horse Creek, twentv-five miles north. The 

 route is as above. Board in private family $1. For hunting on the hills, camping 

 is necessary. 



Hazard, twenty miles from the Black Hills. Antelope, black-tail and white- 

 tail deer, gaese, sandhill cranes, ducks of all kinds, jack snipe, curlew ; and trout 

 in the Black Hill streams. Reached via the Union Pacific Railroad. Board at 

 ranches $2 ; teams with driver §5. Country hilly and rolling. 



Spear Fish Creek. Rapid Creek, Spring Creek and Redwater are full of pike, 

 perch, catfish, bullheads, suckers, etc. Reached from Deadwood City, on the 

 Union Pacific Railroad. 



Sweetwater County — 



Green River City. The Green River country offers many attractions to the 

 sportsman or trapper. The brooks furnish trout by thousands — from half a pound 

 to four pounds in weight— active, plucky fish, that it is a pleasure to hook and a 

 satisfaction to land. Beaver are very plentiful, and their dams may be found at 

 intervals of half a mile on every moderately large brook. Otters, too, are trapped 

 in considerable numbers every winter, though not so numerous now as in former 

 years. These, with the mink and fisher, are the finer fur-bearing animals of the 

 country. The felinse are represented by the lynx and the mountain lion ; the lat- 

 ter rarely seen. 



Deer and elk are numerous in the bottoms and on the mountains, a few ante- 

 lopes frequent the elevated plateaus that occur from time to time along the river, 

 while the loftiest peaks afford a secure refuge to the wary mountain sheep. 

 When hunting along the river or some of its tributaries the hunter will often 

 notice the track of the ferocious grizzly, or of his smaller and more timid conge- 

 ners, the black and cinnamon bears. Sandhill cranes, together with geese and 



