20 CAMERA SHOTS AT BIG GAME 



be trained to cross deer and elk trails, and even run through 

 herds of these animals, without leaving the lion's trail, or the 

 work will be well-nigh useless; for where the game winter, 

 there the cougar will be found. All the lion-hunters I know 

 estimate that every lion kills fifty deer every year after he is 

 grown, and that he is destructive to other game in like pro- 

 portion. He is the wariest and most skulking animal of which 

 I know anything. In thirty years in the Rockies I have seen 

 (excepting those treed by dogs) but one wild one. 



The chances for a camera shot at a wild bear were not to be 

 thought of, so the views shown are of trapped bear. I have 

 met but six in my wanderings. As with the lion hunts, Mr. 

 William Wells planned the bear hunt, and to his skill as a 

 trapper is due our success. The bear were caught on Slate 

 Creek, near Pagoda Peak, in Colorado. 



William Wells, the noted guide then of Marvine Lodge in 

 Colorado, proposed that we try for pictures of mountain lion, 

 which he hunted in winter with a pack of hounds; so, after a 

 month spent the first winter in which two good negatives were 

 obtained, we started in the second winter better prepared. 

 Wells had a splendid pack and much experience; and as he had 

 a large outfit of horses, we had good saddle- and pack-horses. 

 We generally hunted from Wells's winter camp, but occasion- 

 ally made side trips, being welcome at almost any ranchman's, 

 as the lions are very destructive to colts and the stock-raisers 

 were glad to help exterminate them. 



A. G. Wallihan. 



