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CHAPTER V 



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THE MOUNTAIN GOAT AT HOME 46 



Our Welcome to Goatland Three Goats Stampede through our Camp 

 A Wild Spot Mountain Color on a Gray Day An Early- Morning 

 Caller Goats at Rest How Goats Climb Stalking Two Big 

 Billies Two Goats Killed Measurements and Weight. 



CHAPTER VI 



ON BIRD MOUNTAIN : PHOTOGRAPHING MOUNTAIN 



SHEEP 65 



A Mountain Cyclorama The Continental Divide Phillips Peak 

 A Land Unmapped and Unmeasured Mountain Altitudes along Elk 

 River Statement by Geologist McEvoy Mountain Sheep Afoot 

 Photographing Two Sheep on the Goat Rocks Sheep and Goats Seen 

 at the Same Moment. 



CHAPTER VII 

 A GREAT DAY WITH GOATS 77 



Goats Far Up The Climb, and its Difficulties An Elusive Pair Ten 

 Big Billies at Hand Observations of an Hour Four Goats Killed, 

 and Utilized The Tallest Goat, and the Heaviest Rolling Car- 

 casses Down Avalanche Creek to a Beautiful Camp. 



CHAPTER VIII 

 THE MOUNTAIN GOAT AS WE SAW HIM 92 



A Mountain Goat's Paradise General Character of the Animal Its 

 Place in Nature Not an " Antelope" Description Distribution 

 Food Sleeping- Places Accidents in Snow-Slides Swimming 

 Stupid or Not Stupid Courage A Philosophic Animal Affection 

 Fighting Powers A Goat Kills a Grizzly Bear-Shy Goats 

 The Tragedy of the Self-Trapped Goats. 



CHAPTER IX 



TIMBER- LINE AND SUMMIT 127 



One-Eyed Men in the Mountains A Mountain Savant A Climb in 

 False Notch Foot and Nerve Exhaustion A Daring Goat Ex- 

 periments The Component Parts of Mountain-Sides Temperature 

 Record of a Climber A Great Basin and a Bull Elk A Tree 

 Scarred by a Mountain Ram. 



