Camping and Hunting in the Shoshone 



of anyone who wishes to hunt sheep, that 

 there are few places where he may hope 

 for so good success. He is not obliged to 

 invest in a large outfit, or undertake a long 

 trip, since it is near the railroad. Five or 

 six days from either Stillwater or Cinna- 

 bar would bring him well up Crandle 

 Creek, or the north fork of Clarke's Fork ; 

 and on the heads of these streams, and a 

 stream running almost parallel to them, 

 called Dead Indian, there are to-day, and 

 will probably be for years, a large number 

 of sheep. During a trip of six weeks in 

 that region my hunter and I counted over 

 six hundred. Let him not, however, at- 

 tempt this sort of hunting unless he is in 

 pretty good trim and has his bellows in 

 order ; for, to hunt sheep with either suc- 

 cess or safety, he must be able to carry 

 both himself and his rifle up and down 

 steeps as sheer as man can climb, for from 

 eight to twelve or even more hours at a 

 stretch, at a mean height of about nine 

 thousand feet ; not every man who comes 

 West can do this. I have seen one who 

 could hold his own with any in the Adiron- 

 dacks play out utterly ; and on these steeps, 

 often slippery and very dangerous, over- 

 fatigue adds an element of danger most 

 undesirable, and spoils entirely the pleas- 



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