224: ' GUN, ROD, AND SADDLE. 



Texas is reached ; nor do they follow the same routes 

 yearly, the section of country passed over one season 

 often being deserted for years. A few years ago the 

 Black Hills used to be a favorite wintering-place of 

 the hunter and game, but it was ever dangerous from 

 hostile Indians. All are now fled that locality, hunt- 

 ers, game, and Indians, and the formerly lonely sier- 

 ras and woods now echo to the navvies' whistle, the 

 stroke of the chopper's ax, or the grunting of the 

 locomotive ; but why I mention the Black Hills is, 

 that between them and the waters of the Yellow 

 Stone and the Upper Missouri the sportsman can not 

 fail to obtain more game than it is possible to make 

 use of. 



