American Big Game in its Haunts 



wild sheep could not climb up out of the infected 

 zone. Immediate contact is, of course, not neces- 

 sary in the propagation of anthrax, and the bacilli 

 and spores left on soil grazed over by an infected 

 band would readily infect another animal feeding 

 over such a country even a long time afterward. 



"I have also heard that the introduction of dog 

 distemper played havoc with wolves, coyotes, and 

 Indian dogs, when it first came into the country. 

 This is the case with regard to any disease intro- 

 duced into a virgin human population, in which 

 there is no immunity due to the prevalence of such 

 a disease for hundreds of years previously." 



Mr. Elwood Hofer, discussing this subject in 

 conversation, says: 



"There are not a great many sheep in the Park 

 now, anywhere; they have died off from sickness 

 the scab. This is a fact known to everyone living 

 in the neighborhood of the Park. I have killed 

 only one that had the disease badly, but I used to 

 see them every day, and pay no attention to them. 

 I did not hunt for them, for I did not want them 

 in that condition. I remember that once a man 

 came out to Gardiner who did not know that the 

 sheep were sick. He saw some when he was hunt- 

 ing, and rushed up in great excitement and killed 

 three of them. They seemed to be weak and were 



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