2 SPORTIXG ADVENTURES 



that region alone. Among- the latter may be mentioned the 

 grizzly and black bears, the mountain sheep and goat, several 

 species of deer, besides cougars, wolves, foxes, and many smaller 

 quadrupeds. Of the entire area, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, 

 Oregon and "Washington Territory, with their towering 

 mountains and extensive plains, dense forests and treeless 

 plateaus, are by far the best hunting-grounds, as they possess 

 all the elements of soil and climate necessary for the sustenance 

 of a large and varied faunal life, and their population is yet so 

 limited that it has little effect on the increase of tho t /l'/w nature. 

 These countries can be approached in variety and abundance 

 of game only by the tangled jungles of India, or the impene- 

 trable woods of Africa; and as they, including Utah, embrace 

 an area of nearly six hundred thousand square rniles, or about 

 five times that of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, it is evident that they will afford a splendid field to 

 true sportsmen for many years to come. In their profusion 

 and variety of game birds and fishes they have no rivals in any 

 quarter of the globe; hence, it may be safely stated that the 

 entire region extending from California on the south and west, 

 to British America on the north and east, is without a. peer as 

 a recreation-ground for those who love the ecstatic excitement 

 of the chase, or the quiet, meditative pleasure of angling. The 

 advantages which the Far \Vest possesses over all other places to 

 the lovers of the rod and gun are, that the expense of reaching it 

 is comparatively small; that game is unusually abundant ; that 

 life is generally safe there now from the attacks of savages, fierce 

 animals, irritating insects, poisonous serpents or deadly diseases 

 by taking ordinary precaution ; that trusty and experienced 

 guides are easily procured, and at a nominal sum ; that an outfit 

 complete in every detail may be obtained in a town of any im- 

 portance ; that a rapid means of travel are always at command ; 

 and, finally, that no matter how irregularly persons may roam in 

 pursuit of game they are within a few days' march of civiliza- 

 tion, and the high ways of communication with the outer world. 

 Those who visit the country in search of the denizens of the 

 forest and the stream, the mountain and the plain, should, if 

 they wish to be unusually successful, or desire to satiate them- 



