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ducks, prairie chicken (some of the sharp- 
tailed fellows, too), quail, snipe and a 
few woodcock. 
It would do an Eastern sportsman’s 
heart good tu see the millions of geese 
and ducks that cover the prairies in the 
Fall, not to speak of the chickens, 
The chickens assemble along in Octo- 
ber in immense flocks, and exercise such 
wonderful vigilance that it is almost im- 
possible to approach bear enough for a 
shot. They are fat and good, and 
erain-fed. 
The boys capture lots of geese (with 
shot) going to and returning from their 
feeding grounds to the sand-bars in the 
Missouri River. They fly out to and 
from the grain fields at morning and 
night, crossing the railroad just below 
the city in large numbers. The boys 
take cover in the willows along the bank, 
and shoot them as they fly. The fusi- 
lade sounds like a skirmish line. 
For pinnated grouse look near the 
settlements, especially near wheat fields. 
Very few, comparatively speaking, are 
found out on the open prairies, away 
from. the settlements. 
it is of but little use to attempt to 
shoot wild geese on the large lakes. Up 
North they rear their young. You must 
wait for their Autumnal flight South, 
and shoot them as they do at Yankton 
when they halt for food and rest. There 
is good shooting at Yankton for weeks 
after the waters of Northern Dakota, 
Minnesota, and Michigan are closed by 
the ice king. 
Sportsmen wishing a good long sea- 
son, with plenty of feathered game, are 
advised to go to the vicinity of Yank- 
ton. There are first-class hotels, and 
sportsmen can purchase everything need- 
ed of the public-spirited dealers in such 
goods, right on the ground there; and 
citizens of Yankton will extend a sports- 
man’s welcome to all who may visit that 
section for the purpose of enjoying the 
fine sport that can be had on the abun- 
dant game fields. | 
BISMARCK. 
In the immediate vicinity of Bismarck, 
Dakota Territory, it is often, in the 
Winter, too cold for hunting, although 
game is plenty close by town. On the 
train, on the Northern Pacific Railroad, 
going down to Jamestown, large herds 
of antelopes are often seen, in easy rifle 
shot of the road, and only ten or twenty 
miles from Bismarck. 
by the Missouri River is alive with 
prairie chickens, but they enjoy a degree 
of immunity, only tempered by the num- 
ber of degrees which the mercury passes 
below the 0. About forty miles south- 
east of. Bismarck is a large sheet of 
water called Long Lake. <A_ party 
consisting of three well-known shots, who 
camped out there in October, 1878, for 
three days, bagged three antelope, two 
jack-rabbits, one fox, seven swan, sixteen 
geese, ninty-seven ducks and eight couple 
of snipe. The lake was literally alive 
with water fowl of all descriptions, and 
the party actually tired of the shooting, 
it approximating too close to slaughter. 
At Rhude’s Ranche, about forty-five miles 
north from Bismarck, on the Fort Ber- 
thold trail, were killed by three hunters, 
in three days, forty-one deer and three 
antelope. The meat was brought into 
town and sold at four cents per pound. 
Two buffaloes were killed about sixteen 
miles from town by some teamsters, 
They had probably been separated from 
the herd and wandered down from the 
North. Living mountain streams well 
stocked with trout, flow through this 
sportsman’s paradise, and grizzly bear, 
The timber down 
