COLORADO. 



'T^HE STATE of Colorado, with its 103,925 square 

 miles, contains some of the best hunting 

 grounds to be found in the United States. The 

 varied character of the country, consisting of vast 

 plains and mountains, makes it the natural home of 

 big game, and their fastnesses will forever prevent 

 their extermination. 



The grandest and most highly prized game to be 

 found is the wapiti, or elk, the majestic specimen of 

 the deer family. Generally two or three times as 

 large as a Virginia deer, the bull wapiti with its 

 well-developed antlers, has often earned for himself 

 the title of monarch, and it is believed that most 

 sportsmen feel that to kill a bull wapiti is one of 

 the highest pleasures in big game shooting. It has 

 many times been written that the wapiti was fast 

 approaching extermination, but that there are a great 

 abundance of these animals left can readily be proved 

 by talking with our Colorado representatives. There 

 are great bands of them remaining, which stay in 

 the mountains during the vSummer months, coming 

 down into the plains as the Autumn approaches, and 

 frequently great numbers of them are killed by 

 ranchmen for their Winter's supply of meat. 



Of deer, chiefly the black tail variety, there are 



