'I'm-: i;(>cK\' MorNTAiNs no 



as iii\- ()l)scr\ ;ii Ktii ''ot's. he caiiiiiii ;iiuir(i;icli lor nu'ilitv the 

 cliailluis, ;ill(l sllll Irss llir iWcx. \\n>[ Uuck}' Muiuitaiii 



s])(u-tsm('ii luive heard of tlie (U'lii-lit Till manner in which 

 the hiu-horn transports himself down ;i niduntai)!. A cnw- 

 i)o\- once rehited to me. with Western eiieru\- ^f Imiuuao'e, 

 a |iersi)U;d experieure ot'lliis kind. lie had eircimu'enletl 

 a herd of twenty-one rams, and wlieii fourteen of them had 

 fallen to Ins riHe. I lie remainder had sprung- o\cr a perpen- 

 dieuK-ir elilf several Imndred feet liiLili. an<h ;diu'hting 

 eomh»rtai)l\- on their horns, had ])roeeeded e;dnil\' on 

 tlieii- way. To m\' mind notldng sliows the trne frankness 

 of llie .\meriean min<l more llian tlie simpheit\- witli whidi 

 tile Westerner ltelie\-es that \'ou l)elie\e his lai'adiihlles. 



Not man\ I'aiuiish lniiitino- "outfits'" succeed iiowa- 

 days in hiinoinu- back the heads of 2:ood hiii-liorn rams, 

 hut I attril)ute this to the fact that the Western hunter, 

 who o-enerallv thinks first of meat and how to uet it most 

 easily, is apt - at least that is my ex|)erience — to dis- 

 courage liis eni})Iover from hunting on foot ; and fi'om tlic 

 rou'di natur<' of the u'ronnd where this animal ''eiH'rallx', 

 hut not always, abides, this is the only eti'ectual way to 

 cjet at him. 



(hi our wa\' u|). a month before, we had looked from a 

 distance into an upland hasiii of inie oi ihe forks of the 

 Wind IJix'er. surrounded 1p\- high and ll|■o]^(■ll penk-< whudi 

 looked likel\'. Two davs' iournev took us ihiihei-, hut at 

 the first attempt to 'j-et inti* it we wei'e completely beaten 

 by fallen timhci' .md intricate ctnunis. Tlie next da\' I 

 rode out h\' myself and succeeded in linding the clue to 

 the entrance. < hi the wax'down again I hc.ird i he xpiinvl.s 

 chattering in front of me, and, h\ the track- in the snow. 



