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importations. Butte has developed in the past 

 three years a warm interest in coursing. 



As in the case of race-horses, Americans have 

 drawn their greyhound blood from the most ap- 

 proved English sources. San Francisco imported 

 quite a number from^ Australia, but the blood 

 lines were the same, going back to Contango, 

 King Death, and Scotland Yet, representing from 

 year to year the latest successes in England, as 

 the Greentick, Ptarmigan, or Herschel blood came 

 to the fore. 



History will never tell who was the first Amer- 

 ican to see a jack-rabbit. Whoever it was, he 

 must have instantly felt the need of a greyhound. 

 This large hare of the Western plains has a dash 

 of speed which takes him quickly out of the range 

 of any ordinary dog, and an endurance which pre- 

 cludes the idea of being captured by any plan 

 which involves his stopping from exhaustion 

 ahead of a slow pursuer. On rising ground I 

 have seen jack-rabbits run straight away from 

 ordinary greyhounds of native or cold stock. The 

 greyhounds were soon willing to quit the chase 

 and return to camp. 



Greyhounds were early introduced on the plains 

 by cattlemen who had a taste for sport. Some 

 army officers and soldiers on the frontier made a 

 point of bringing out dogs for the same amuse- 

 ment. It was not, however, until about 1885 that 



