82 GALLINACEOUS BIRDS— GROUSE 



flowers, and small wild fruits, where the buffalo, elk, 

 deer, and antelope were but little molested when I first 

 began to shoot. Such was the land when Custer fell, 

 and for a few years thereafter. The railroad now runs 

 over it. Towns have taken the places of the Indian 

 tepees. The buffaloes are exterminated, the antelope 

 are nearly gone, and the sharp-tails must go to the 

 game preserve or vanish from the earth. 



