HUNTING THE MULE-DEER IN COLORADO. 



SAYS a well-known sportsman,* in a work recently issued for 

 the use of the fraternity, " Good hunting is at present scarcely 

 to be found east of the Missouri River. West of that stream, 

 however, there is a wide extent of territory in many parts of which 

 game may still be found in considerable abundance by those who are 

 sufficiently acquainted with the country to know where to look for 

 it. * * * As things stand at present, the country where game 

 most abounds is that which is now, or lately has been, infested by 

 the Indians. * * * The Indians are the only real game preservers 

 in the West." 



That portion of the new State of Colorado lying west of the main 

 range and north of the San Juan mining region is perhaps one of 

 the very best of these localities ; certainly the most accessible and 

 practicable at a moderate expenditure of money and time. Here 

 in four days, by rail from New York City, one may mount a well- 

 trained animal and plunge at once into the primeval wilds. Here 

 are the gate-ways of the great parks, in and surrounding which are 

 thousands of square miles suited by nature to the purpose of a 

 stronghold from which the game can never be wholly driven. Just 

 within its farther limit is the Ute reservation, and its bulk is almost 

 debatable ground, — the Indians hunting here, and loath to yield to 

 the whites entire possession of their richest grounds and their great 

 medicine waters, the Hot Springs of Middle Park. Legislation has 

 been pending for a few years past, which will probably limit these 



• Charles Hallock, of " Forest and Stream," in " The Sportsman's Gazeteer," pages 

 71 and 74. 



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