Chapter IX 



The Bighorn 



YOU may at least look at bighorn sheep in Cali- 

 fornia, and in attaining the glance you will 

 climb some of the highest slopes of the 

 southern Sierras. There is a band of bighorn sheep 

 on the slopes of Mount San Antonio unless they 

 have been killed recently ; and others have been re- 

 ported on Grayback or Grizzly peak, on San Jacinto, 

 or other lofty summits from eight to eleven thousand 

 feet above the sea. But they are protected by law, and, 

 as I have suggested, can only be looked at or photo- 

 graphed, which, after all, is the most satisfactory method 

 of hunting game that every intelligent American knows 

 is being exterminated. 



If the bighorn cannot be had in Southern Califor- 

 nia it can be found over the line on the peninsula, not 

 many miles below San Diego or Coronado, where one 

 may take the steamer for Ensenada and there procure 

 guide and pack train for the lofty mountains which form 



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