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THE SPORTSMAN’S AND TOURIST’S GUIDE. 
Park hunters, killed in 1878, twenty- 
three deer in two and a half days. On 
the western slope of the Gore Range, 
another hunter attached to a camp shoot- 
ing deer for market, stated that he 
thought at least five hundred deer had 
crossed the road during three days; 
another one placed the number much 
higher. 
GAME RESORTS. 
It was said at one time that deer were 
growing scarce in Colorado. But the 
nambers daily brought into the various 
towns by sportsmen and market hunters 
certainly looks like a flat contradic- 
tion of that assertion. It is the general 
testimony of hunters that deer are just 
as abundant as ever they had been, 
though, perhaps, it was necessary to pen- 
etrate a little further into the mountains 
to secure them. One can scarcely go 
amiss anywhere in the mountain region 
of this State. He may select his own 
ground in the northern, middle, or south- 
ern part, and he will be rewarded for his 
If he chooses he may leave the 
haunts of men far benind him, and rough 
it in the Snowy Range. He may camp 
in any of the great parks, and so live 
pains. 
more easily than in the former case. He 
may, if he choose, stop at some ranche, 
or even live at a good hotel, and yet 
bring home an abundance of game. 
Those who are willing to rough it, 
need little direction. 
Denver, Colorado Springs, or Alamosa 
their starting point, and from any of these 
places, going into the mountains, be sure 
There are some men, how- 
ever, who are not able to endure the 
fatigue of long joureys on horse or mule, 
They may make 
of success. 
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who yet enjoy a hunt under less fatiguing 
circumstances. For the sake of these 
one place should be mentioned where 
they may stay comfortably in a good 
hotel, and yet be able to carry to their 
Eastern homes some antlers or evidences 
of their skill with the rifle. - 
Manitou is seventy-five miles south of 
Denver, from whence it is reached by the 
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, and six 
miles of staging from Colorado Springs, 
where you leaye the railroad. It may 
also be reached from the south by the 
same railroad, via Pueblo. At Manitou, 
two good hotels remain open all the year 
round, at either of which most comfort- 
able accommodations may be had. With- 
in easy walking distance deer may be shot 
any day. In 1878, a gentleman, who 
was something of an invalid, shot two, 
within three miles of the Manitou House, 
at which he stopped. On another occa- 
sion four deer were killed in one day 
within four miles of the village. And 
many other like cases might be enumer- 
ated. Those who love Nature in her wild 
beauty would find enjoyment here. Wil- 
liam’s and Ruxton’s canyons, though very 
unlike each other, have great charms in 
their picturesque scenery of stream leap- 
ing from rock to rock, massive boulders, 
and high, rocky walls, that the giants 
built to towering heights. Caves, too, 
offer their peculiar attractions to the ad- 
venturous. Pike’s Peak looks down in 
silent majesty from his solemn height 
upon the little village that nestles in his 
very shadow at his feet, while to the east 
the boundless sea of plains stretch away 
in limitless distance, always varying in 
shade and color with every hour of the 
day, with every cloud or ray of sunshine. 
