14 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Elk Hunting in the Rocky Mountains Characteristics of the 

 Elk His Mode of Travel A Stampede in a Thicket The 

 Whist'eofthc Elk, the Hunter's Sweetest Music Measure- 

 ments of a Pair of Antlers Saved by Following an Elk 

 Trail The Work of Exterminators The Elk Doomed. . 181 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



Antelope Hunting in Montana A Red Letter Day on Flat Wil- 

 low Initiating a Pilgrim Sample Shots Flagging aud 

 Fanning Catching Wounded Antelopes on Horseback 

 Four Mule-Loads of Meat 194 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



Buffalo Hunting on the Texas Plains A "Bull Train "Loaded 

 with Skins A Sensation in Fort Worth En Route to the 

 Range Red River Frank's Mission A Stand on the Herd 

 Deluged with Buffalo Blood A Wild Run by Indians- 

 Tossed into the Air and Trampled into the Earth. . 213 



CHAPTER XXV. 



Hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat Technical Description of 

 the Animal Its Limited Range Dangers Incurred in Hunt- 

 iug It An Army Officer's Experience A Perilous Shot A 

 Long and Dangerous Pursuit Successful at Last Carry- 

 ing the Trophies to Camp Wading up Lost Horse Creek 

 Numerous Baths in Icy Water An Indian's Fatal Fall 

 Horses Stampeded by a Bear Seven Days on Foot and 

 Alone Home at Last 236 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



Trouting in the Mountains Gameness of the Mountain Trout^ 

 A Red Letter Day on the Bitter Root Frontier Tackle and 

 Orthodox Bait How a Private Soldier Gets to the Front as 

 an Angler A Coot Interrupts the Sport, and a Rock Inter- 

 rupts the Coot Colonel Gibson takes a Nine-Pounder A 

 Native Fly Fisherman Grand Sport on Big Spring Creek 

 How Captain Hathaway does the Honors Where Grand 

 Sport may be Found. . 257 



