The Mountain Sheep and its Range 



pretty nearly dead with scab before he saw them. 

 Sometimes they become so weak from this disease 

 that they lie down and die. 



"I first noticed sheep with the scab around the 

 canon by the Yellowstone. I never saw any 

 troubled with this disease around Meeteetsee or 

 Stinking Water. I have been there in winter, and 

 hunted them as late as November, and Col. Pickett 

 used to kill some still later. I never heard him 

 speak of the scab." 



In spring and early summer, when the young 

 sheep are small, the eagles are constantly on the 

 watch for them, and unquestionably capture many 

 lambs. I have been told by my friend, Mr. J. B. 

 Monroe, who has several times captured lambs 

 alive, that when they heard the rope whistling as 

 he threw it toward them, they would run directly 

 toward him, seeming to fear some enemy from 

 above. He believes that they took the sound of 

 the rope flying through the air for the sound of 

 the eagle's wings. 



While, of course, the mountain lions cannot 

 overtake the sheep in fair chase, they lie in wait 

 for them among the rocks, killing many, because 

 the sheep range on ground suitable for the lions to 

 stalk them on ; that is to say, among the rocks on 

 steep mountain sides, or at the edges of canons. 



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