APPENDIX. 



IN this volume I have avoided repeatir.j» what 

 was contained in either of my former 

 books, the Hioititig Trips of a Ranchman and 

 Ranch Life and the Huntifig Trail. For many 

 details of Ufe and work in the cattle country I 

 must refer the reader to these two volumes ; 

 and also for more full accounts of the habits 

 and methods of hunting such game as deer 

 and antelope. As far as I know, the descrip- 

 tion in my Ranch Life of the habits and the 

 chase of the mountain sheep is the only 

 moderately complete account thereof that has 

 ever been published. The five game-heads 

 figured in this volume are copied exactly from 

 the originals, now in my home ; the animals 

 were, of course, shot by myself. 



There have been many changes, both in my 

 old hunting-grounds and my old hunting- 

 friends, since I first followed the chase in the 

 far western country. Where the buffalo and 

 the Indian ranged, along the Little Missouri, 

 the branded herds of the ranchmen now graze ; 

 the scene of my elk-hunt at Two Ocean Pass 

 is now part of the National Forest Reserve ; 

 settlers and miners have invaded the ground 

 where I killed bear and moose ; and steamers 

 ply on the lonely waters of Kootenai Lake. 



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