HUNTING FOR ANIMALS OF PAST AGES 29 



The older fossils are countless millions of years 

 old and numbers of fossils for each of the past 

 ages have been found. 



There are hundreds of fossil beds on earth. 

 There are dozens in Oregon, and, I think, one 

 at least in each state in the Union. Fossil horses 

 are found in perhaps eight or ten of the western 

 states. 



In the wall near the bottom of the dry canon 

 which we visited the scientist showed me a small, 

 filled-in gully. This gully had been made in an 

 old surface by running water ages ago. This 

 present cover of ashes fell and filled it. He said 

 there are hundreds of these filled-in or buried 

 gullies and canons. 



We did not find a single fossil. But he said 

 that the canon was a promising one to prospect 

 and that later he would ask me to show it to 

 one of the geologists. On the way back to camp 

 we saw four flocks of antelope and several times 

 during the day we saw coyotes. 



That evening by the camp-fire the scientist 

 said: "During my absence 'to-day someone 

 brought in an excellent fossil horse. He has 

 three toes on each foot with the middle toe most 

 developed. His strange teeth are for the eating 

 of twigs and bark; grass had not developed when 

 he lived on earth. If fat he would have been 

 the size of a small sheep. An epoch after his 



