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Bay Company. The contiguous Sierra range, with its 

 summits covered with eternal snows, overlooking the 

 valley, was the home of the grizzly bear, mountain 

 lion, deer and other smaller game. Buffalo and ante- 

 lope roamed over the vast plains and valleys extending 

 eastward from the Sierra Nevada, across the Rockies 

 to the bottoms of the Platte and Arkansas rivers, alto- 

 gether making this the ideal place of the intrepid and 

 hardv mountaineer. 



