WYOMING. 



nPHE STATE of Wyoming-, which is compara- 

 tively sparsely settled, contains some of the 

 greatest hunting- sections for big game to be found 

 in North America. In selecting a typical guide and 

 hunter from this State, there were many whose 

 skill, bravery and experience entitled them to high 

 rank among guides and hunters ; but there is one 

 man in Wyoming who has the respect of all who 

 have known him as a guide. He has had an 

 experience which falls to the lot of but few men, 

 and we might say that but few would care for such 

 an experience, for it is fraught with danger, and he 

 bears the marks of encounter with our fiercest 

 animal, the grizzly bear. 



This sturdy hunter is Ira Dodge, of Cora, Wyo., 

 of whom many sportsmen have heard, for besides 

 being a fearless and enthusiastic hunter, he wields a 

 pen with a graphicuess which has interested all who 

 have read his writings. Mr. Dodge is known 

 throughout Wyoming, and by many hunters of the East 

 whom he has guided, as one of the greatest bear 

 hunters of the West. Mr. Dodge was born in the 

 wilds of Wisconsin on November 27, 1858. At an 

 early age he developed a passion for the rifle and 

 gun which brought many admonitions from his 



