8 CONTENTS. 



grouse, antelope — The cow-camp — Standing 

 night guard — Dawn — Make an antelope hunt — 

 An easy stalk — A difficult stalk — Three antelope 

 shot — The plains skylark — The meadow lark— 

 The mocking-bird — Other singers — Harsher wil- 

 derness sounds — Pack rats — Plains ferret, Its 

 ferocity — The war eagle — Attacks antelope — 

 Kills jack-rabbit — One shot on wing with rifle.. 70 



CHAPTER V. 



HUNTING THE PRONG-BUCK ; FROST, FIRE, AND 

 THIRST. 

 Hunting the prong-buck — Long shots — Misses — 

 Winter weather — A hunt in December — Riding 

 in the bitter cold — The old hunter's tepee — A 

 night in a line camp — An antelope herd — Two 

 bucks shot — Riding back to ranch — The immi- 

 grant train — Hunting in fall — Fighting fire — A 

 summer hunt — Sufferings from thirst — Swim- 

 ming cattle across a swollen stream — Wagon trip 

 to the Black Hills — The great prairies — A prong- 

 buck shot — Pleasant camp — Buck shot in morn- 

 ing — Continue our journey — Shooting sage fowl 

 and prairie fowl with rifle 90 



CHAPTER VI. 



AMONG THE HIGH HILLS; THE BIGHORN OR MOUN- 

 TAIN SHEEP. 



A summer on the ranch — Working among the 

 cattle — Killing game for the ranch — A trip after 

 mountain sheep — The Bad Lands —Solitary 

 camp — The old horse Manitou — Still-hunt at 

 dawn — Young ram shot — A hunt in the Rocky 

 Mountains — An old bighorn stalked and shot — 

 Habits of the game 1 18 



CHAPTER VII. 



MOUNTAIN game; THE WHITE GOAT. 

 A trip to the Bighole Basin — Incidents of travel 

 with a wagon — Camp among the mountains — A 

 trip on foot after goats — Spruce grouse — Lying 

 out at night — A climli over the high peaks — Two 

 goats shot — Weary tram]) back — A liunt in the 

 Kootenai country — Hard climbing among the 



