IN THE ALASKA-YUKON GAMELANDS 



ing sports. In making this statement I do not 

 wish to discourage sportsmen from engaging in it, 

 for the danger is not so great as that. However, 

 as compared to grizzly bear hunting, I consider 

 that sheep hunting is the more dangerous to life 

 and limb. I am carrying in my memory some 

 narrow escapes from permanent injury and death 

 that I have both experienced and witnessed. I also 

 have some well-developed rheumatic germs that 

 were received into my system through exposure 

 on the head of Gravel Bar, Wyo., many years 

 ago, while hunting with Lawrence Nordquist, 

 of Cody, Wyo., as guide. Our camp was located 

 on the Sunlight River at an elevation of 7,000 

 feet. A few days before, from a different camp, 

 we had seen sheep on the side of a peak rising up 

 from Gravel Bar. On this particular morning 

 we left camp at 7 a. m., and at 2 p. m. reached 

 the summit at an elevation of 11,400 feet, after 

 zigzagging considerably. We then descended on 

 the other side 600 feet, but found no sheep. We 

 saw their tracks made the day we had seen the 

 sheep from above the other camp, but that was 

 all. So we decided to return to camp by different 

 routes, and at 3 :2o p. m. we separated, Lawrence 

 going back by the Gravel Bar side and I descend- 

 ing by the way we had come up. On returning, 

 however, I saw tracks leading around the other 

 side of the peak from that by which we had 

 ascended, so I changed my course and decided to 

 follow them. They led me among almost in- 



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