INDEX 



Adirondack Reservation, 25 



Adirondacks, shipment of deer from, 

 129 ; scenery, 133, 134 



Aguilar, Senor Don, 258 



Alaskan brown bears, 294, 335 [»oW\ ; 

 food, 297 ; flesh, 297 ; pelts, 297 



Alaskan grizzly bear, Ursits hurribilis 

 alascencis^ 334 



Alaskan moose, alces g-igas, 69, 71, 327 ; 

 range, 327 



Allen, Dr. , 208 



Ammunition, 9, 10-13 



Andrus, Mrs., 306 



Antelope, atttilocapra americana, ex- 

 tinction of, 31, 168 ; horns, 169, 229 ; 

 description, 228, 333 ; former abun- 

 dance on the plains, 230, 234 ; rac- 

 ing with railway trains, 231, 232 ; 

 Indian methods of capture, 231 ; 

 jumping, 232 ; range, 233, 333 ; curi- 

 osity, 233, 235-237, 240 ; decrease, 

 233-23S ; hunting, 235-239, 247 ; 

 "flagging," 240, 242; stalking, 240- 

 243 ; enemies, 243, 248 ; coursing 

 with greyhounds and staghounds, 

 244-247 ; domestication, 247, 248 ; 

 habits, etc.^ 248, 249 ; protection of, 



249. 333 

 Antelope Island [r/oU], 175 

 Arizona white-tail deer, 124, 329 

 Artiodactyla, 40 

 Atchison Pacific Railway, trains thrown 



from track by buffalo, 171 

 Audubon, quoted^ 229 



Raillie-Grohman, quoted, on the 



white goat, 8, 217, 226 

 Baldwin, General, 56, 100, 237 

 Barren-ground caribou Rangifer arti- 



cus, 146 ; range, 147, 152, 153, 330 ; 

 color, 148 ; food, 149, 153, 154 ; lame- 

 ness, 149 ; rutting season, 150 ; 

 horns, 150; flesh, 150; curiosity, 150; 

 shooting, 150, 151 ; sense of smell, 

 151 ; weapons and ammunition, 151 ; 

 shooting season, 154, 155 ; licenses, 

 155 ; relation to the reindeer, 161 ; 

 difficulties of shooting, 161, 162 ; 

 migration, 162, 164 ; bands, 162, 

 163 ; abundance, 163, 164 ; descrip- 

 tion, 330 



Barren-ground grizzly, Ursus richard- 

 soni, 334 



Barren Grounds, 199 



Bear family, Ursidce, 6, 7, 333 ; species, 

 253; range, 253, 256; ferocity, 253, 

 254; food, 254 ; " hibernating," 255 ; 

 tracks, 255 ; affection for young, 

 255 ; traps, 255, 256. 



Bees attacking black bear, 287, 288 



Bierstadt, Albert, 69 



Big brown bear, Ursus middendorffi, 

 253 ; varieties, 294, 297, 335 ; hunt- 

 ing, 294-297 ; food, 297 ; flesh, 297 ; 

 pelts, 297 ; description, 335 ; range, 



335 



Big game, decrease in slaughter of, 4 ; 

 varieties, 6, 7 



Big game shooting. 3 ; decrease in 

 slaughter, 4 ; weapons and ammu- 

 nition, 9, 10-13 ; use of dogs, 14, 15, 

 16; costume, 16; shooting, 16-18; 

 carelessness, 19 ; preserves, 28-30, 



31 

 Big-horn, Ovis canadensis, 167, 206, 



210, 213 ; range, 168, 214, 332 ; flesh, 

 169; horns, 169, 209, 216; descrip- 

 tion, 207, 213, 215, 332 : species. 



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