I34 Life in the Open 



localities most frequented by this splendid game can 

 be reached on horseback, which is not often the case 

 farther north. Once in this Lower California hunting 

 ground, the sportsman will find himself on the very 

 backbone of the continent, and at a glance can sweep 

 the Pacific, the mountain ranges, the Gulf of California, 

 and the vast desert beyond, and here, among scenes of 

 chaos and desolation, is the home of the mountain 

 sheep, that is sometimes followed from peak to peak, 

 over countless divides, and into deep caftons before it 

 is shot 



The sheep are so common that a hunt is rarely 

 barren, and several good pairs of horns will repay the 

 not difficult trip into this part of Mexico. 



