American Big Game in its Haunts 



In old times this country abounded in buffalo, 

 elk, deer of two species, sheep, and antelope, and 

 if set aside as a State park by Montana, it would 

 offer an admirable game refuge, and one still 

 stocked with all its old-time animals, except the 

 elk and the buffalo. 



RANGE. 



The present range of the different forms of 

 mountain sheep extends from Alaska and from the 

 Pacific Ocean east to> the Rocky Mountains with 

 a tongue extending down the Missouri River as 

 far as the Little Missouri south to Sonora and 

 Lower California. The various forms from north 

 to south appear to be Ball's sheep, the saddleback 

 sheep, Stone's sheep, the common bighorn, with 

 the Missouri River variety, existing to the east, in 

 the bad lands, and with Nelson's, the Mexican and 

 the Lower California sheep running southward 

 into Mexico. 



Among the experienced hunters of both forms 

 of Ball's sheep are Messrs. Ball BeWeese, of 

 Colorado, and A. J. Stone, Collector of Arctic 

 Mammals for the American Museum of Natural 

 History. Mr. Stone gives two distinct ranges for 

 this sheep, ( i ) the Alaska Mountains and Kenai 

 Peninsula, and (2) the entire stretch of the Rocky 



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