PREFACE 



(HE material has been obtained for this volume 

 under the deep blue of Colorado skies while 

 the summer sun beat fiercely, or when the win- 

 ter cold was so intense as to interfere with hand- 

 ling the camera. The pictures have been made in the open 

 country, outwitting the far-seeing antelope, or by riversides, 

 while the author awaited with bated breath the near approach 

 of a bunch of deer. Again, the work has been done in the 

 mountains where the fawns lay hidden, their mothers bounding 

 away upon approach, where the fat bucks sought the shelter 

 of the oak brush or lay out in a point of aspens that the sun 

 might harden their horns, where the streams were filled 

 with lusty trout ; or, following the hounds in winter on the trail 

 of a cougar over the hills and canons of White River, or on 

 into the bleak, wind-swept ranges of Wyoming, matching skill 

 with the bighorn or (on skis) the lordly elk. The intense 

 fascination of our study of game has taught patience and de- 

 manded perseverance without limit. Privation and hardship 

 have been mitigated by the pleasures obtained from hunting 

 and fishing, and in greater measure from the study of the game. 

 The first attempt made was in the autumn of 1889, but the 

 only result was to learn some of the difficulties and necessities. 



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