444 WALL STREET AND THE WILDS 



It was during this year, 1887, that I publicly 

 advocated and seriously began the practice of 

 substituting the camera for the rifle, excepting 

 strictly for the needs of subsistence, in all hunting 

 excursions. Of these needs I took far too liberal 

 a view as this story has shown, but the impera- 

 tive necessity of the conservation of the wild life 

 of the country had not then appeared. 



During my stay in the Rocky Mountains with 

 Ward, my half-breed guide was made to under- 

 stand that the camera was my chosen weapon. 

 Thereafter he brought marvelous skill to its 

 service. He knew the destination of the distant 

 herd and placed me in its path. He showed me 

 creatures that I wouldn't have found and some- 

 times found it hard to see even after he had 

 pointed them out. He took me within long 

 camera range of that shyest of creatures, the ante- 

 lope, enabled me to picture a pine marten, 

 brought me within range of a band of elk, and 

 crowned his work by helping me to a camera shot 

 at beavers on their dam. And yet the distances 

 were usually too great. To the rifleman a bull 



