American Big Game in its Haunts 



What the relations of these different forms are 

 to one another has not yet been determined, but 

 it may be conjectured that Ovls canadensis, O. 

 nelsoni, and 0. dalll differ most widely from one 

 another; while O. stonei and O. dalll, with its 

 forms, are close together; and O. canadensis, 

 and O. c. auduboni are closely related; as are also 

 O. nelsoni, 0. mexicanus, and O. c. cremnobates. 

 The sub-species auduboni is the easternmost mem- 

 ber of the American sheep family, while the sheep 

 of Chihuahua and of Lower California are the 

 most southern now known. 



PRIMITIVE HUNTING. 



At many points in the Rocky Mountains and 

 the Sierra Nevadas the Indians were formerly 

 great sheep hunters, and largely depended on this 

 game for their flesh food. That it was easily 

 hunted in primitive times cannot be doubted, and 

 is easily comprehended when we remember the 

 testimony of white observers already quoted. In 

 certain places in the foothills of the mountains, or 

 in more or less isolated ranges in Utah, Nevada, 

 Montana, and other sections, the Indians used to 

 beat the mountains, driving the sheep up to the 

 summits, where concealed bowmen might kill 

 .them. On the summits of certain ranges which 



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