The Mountain Sheep and its Range 



and both animals fell whirling over the cliff and 

 struck the slide rock below. The fall was a long 

 one, and the Cheyennes, feeling sure that the sheep 

 had been killed, either by the fall or by the lion, 

 rushed forward to secure the meat. When they 

 reached the spot the lion was hobbling off with a 

 broken leg, and one of them shot it with his 

 arrow, and when they made ready to skin the 

 sheep, they saw to their astonishment that it was 

 not a sheep, but a man wearing the skin and horns 

 of a sheep. He had been hunting, and his bow 

 and arrows were wrapped in the skin close to his 

 breast. The fall had killed him. From the fash- 

 ion of his hair and his moccasins they knew that 

 he was a Bannock. 



A reference to the hunting methods of the 

 Sheep Eaters reminds one very naturally of that 

 pursued by the Blackfeet, when sheep were needed 

 for their skins or for their flesh. These animals 

 were abundant about the many buttes which rise 

 out of the prairie on the flanks of the Rocky 

 Mountains, in what is now Montana, and when 

 disturbed retreated to the heights for safety. 



Hugh Monroe, a typical mountain man of the 

 old time, who reached Fort Edmonton in the year 

 1813, and died in 1893, after eighty years 

 spent upon the prairie in close association with 



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