To Harrj^ Petrie, Denver, Colo. 



Of all the good fellows I ever have met 

 The Westerner discounts them all. 

 No better breed for all the year romid. 

 Ever rode a cayuse or cheered on a hound. 

 Or rounded a steer in the fall, 



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WITH HORSE AND HOUNDS ON THE WESTERN 



PLAINS 



JACK RABBITt— COYOTE AND WOLF HUNTING — THE SPORTING 

 PARSON WESTERN WAYS A THOROUGHBRED SPORTSMAN. 



/^VER all the great plains and cattle grazing countries 

 ^^ of the United States, from the Mississippi to the Rockies, 

 from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, Jack rabbits are found 

 nearly everywhere. 



Coyotes are plentiful, and the wolf, though greatly re- 

 duced in numbers and range, still has, like the Indian, reserva- 

 tions where he continues to Hve, if not to flourish. In whatever 

 neighbourhood, community or colony you find one of these 

 three families, there you will also find some good, local hunting 

 blood, with a few good dogs, well adapted to the locality, and 

 any amount of genuine hospitahty. 



You occasionally find an enthusiast who does nothing but 

 hunt all winter and notliing but think and talk about it all sum- 

 mer; but for the most part hunting on the plains is done as a 

 recreation and is indulged in whenever the spirit moves, or a 



