Index 



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Rogue River Mountains, blacktail 



hunting, 232. 

 Round-horned elk, see Wapiti. 



Sacramento valley elk, 168, 169. 

 San Joaquin valley elk, 167, 169. 

 Scandinavia reindeer species of 



caribou, 283. 

 Sheffield, J. R. moose and deer in 



northern Maine, 70. 

 Shooting, see Hunting. 

 Sierra Nevada 



Deer ranges, 226, 227. 

 Mule-deer, 195. 

 "Slow-tracking dog" blacktail 



still-hunting, 241, 243. 

 Snow 



Caribou chase, 267-270. 

 Whitetail habits in winter, 74-76. 

 Soldiers hunters' qualities, 24, 79, 



82. 

 Spanish Californians, hunting skill, 



172. 

 Spitzbergen reindeer species of 



caribou, 283. 

 Stalking caribou, 266. 

 Still-hunting 



Columbia blacktail, 241-245. 

 Elk, 187. 

 Moose, 80. 



Pacific coast mule-deer, 224. 

 Whitetail, 81. 



Woodland caribou, 264-265. 

 Stone, A. J. caribou specimens, 



{note'} 285. 

 Swamps caribou still-hunting, 264. 



Virginia deer 



Compared with Columbia black- 

 tail, 253-255. 



Distinction from Pacific coast 

 blacktail, 226. 



Food, 195. 



Gait, 198, 199. 



Hunting chances, 175. 



Virginia deer \continued~\ 

 Leaping movement, 247. 

 Name, 4. 

 Watching back track, 252. 



Wagon trips, 119-121, 124. 

 Wapiti, or round-horned elk 

 Antlers, 131. 

 Banding into herds, 138. 

 Breeding, 136-142, 156. 

 Calves, 139, 141. 

 Challenge, 137, 154, 156. 

 Characteristics, 102. 

 Charging, 143. 

 Description, 8. 



Extermination compared with 

 other deer, 8, loo-ioi, 

 131-135, 145, 149. 

 Fighting, 141-142. 

 Gait, 141, 144. 

 Hunting, 140, 147-164. 



Beauty of country, 149-151. 

 Migration, 145, 146. 

 Name, 7. 

 Range, 6, 8, 9. 

 Scent, 155. 

 Stupidity in time of danger, 



135-136. 



Washington state, elk hunting, 172. 

 Water 



Columbia blacktail, watering, 233. 

 Mule-deer of Pacific coast, water- 

 ing, I93-J94. 

 Prongbuck hunting, 116. 

 Whitetail 

 Antlers, 9. 



Interlocked antlers white- 

 tail fight, 76-77. 

 Breeding, 71, 74, 76. 

 Extermination compared with 

 other deer, 65-71, 99-100. 

 Feeding, 72-74. 



Habits, variation in, 65, 71-77,96. 

 Hunting, 78-97. 

 Crusting, 75, 82. 



