GOAT SHOOTING IN MONTANA 
The Rocky Mountain antelope-goat (Haplocerus 
Montanus) is still to be found in considerable num- 
bers in some of the northwestern States, particu- 
larly Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon, 
also in British Columbia. It owes its existence 
quite as much to the wildness of the country it 
inhabits, and to the fact that its flesh is not a deli- 
cacy, as to the game laws which regulate the bag 
of the head hunter. Goats are found as far south 
as the Saw Tooth Mountains in Idaho, but so much 
prospecting has been done in that country that they 
are seen there now only in small numbers and on 
the higher peaks. Sheep are much more general 
in their distribution and, while extremely difficult 
to secure during the open season, in the winter 
they come down from their heights and often sup- 
ply a valuable addition to the slender larder of the 
frontier rancher, to whom they fall a comparatively 
easy prey. Travelling north, one finds goats in 
considerable numbers in the Bitter Root country 
and they become more numerous as the British 
Columbian line is approached. 
As the goats spend much of their time above the 
timber line, around glacial lakes, and on almost 
inaccessible cliffs, for a long time they escaped the 
eyes of scientific sportsmen and were known of by 
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