1 92 AN AMERICAN HUNTER 



the hunting has chiefly been done by ranchers and occa- 

 sional small grangers. In consequence, for six or eight 

 years the game about held its own the antelope, as I 

 have said above, at one time increasing; but the gradual 

 growth in the number of actual settlers then began to tell, 

 and the game became scarce. Nowadays settlers along 

 the Little Missouri can kill an occasional deer or ante- 

 lope; but it can hardly be called a game country. 



