CONTENTS. 9 



tfooded mountains — Goat shot on brink of 

 chasm — Ptarmigan for supper — C'njat lumting 

 very hard work — Ways and hal^its of the goats 

 —Not much decrease in numbers 129 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 HUNTING IN TIIK SELKIRKS; THE CARIBOU. 

 A camp on Kootenai Lake — TraveUing on foot 

 through the dense forests — Excessive toil — Wa- 

 ter shrew and water thrush — Black bear killed — 

 Mountain climbing — Woodchucks and conies — 

 The Indian Animal — Night sounds — A long 

 walk — A caribou killed — A midwinter trip on 

 snow-shoes in Maine — Eootprints on the snow — 

 A helpless deer — Caribou at ease in the deep 

 drifts 150 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE WAPITI OR ROUND-HORNED ELK. 

 A hunt in the Bitter Root mountains — A trip on 

 foot — Two bull elk fighting — The peace-maker — 

 All three shot — Habits of the wapiti — Their 

 bungling — A grand chorus — Shooting a bull at 

 sunrise — Another killed near the ranch — Vanish- 

 ing of the elk — Its antlers — The lynx — Porcupine 

 — Chickarees and chipmunks — Clarke's crow — 

 Lewis* woodpecker — Whisky- jack — Trout — The 

 Yellowstone canyon 176 



CHAPTER X. 



AN ELK-HUNT AT T\VO-t)CKAN PASS. 



In the Shoshones — Travelling with a pack-train- 

 Scenery — Flowers — A squaw-man — Bull elk shot 

 in rain while challenging — Storm — Breaking 

 camp in rain — Two-Ocean I'ass — Our camp — A 

 young ten pointer shot — The mountains in moon- 

 light — Blue grouse — Snow-shoe rabljits — Death 

 ofa master bull — The Tetons — Following a bull 

 by scent — 111 luck — Luck changes — Death of 

 spike bull — Three bulls killed — Travelling home 

 — Heavy snowstorm — lUicking horse — various 

 hunts compared — Number cartridges used — Still- 

 bunting the elk , 193 



