American Big Game in its Haunts 



Hampshire and Vermont, appearing occasionally, 

 as migrants only, in the Berkshire hills of Massa- 

 chusetts. In the State of New York the Catskills 

 appear to have been their extreme southern limit 

 in the east ; but they disappeared from this district 

 more than a century ago. In the Adirondacks, or 

 the North Woods, as they were formerly called, 

 moose abounded among the hard wood ridges and 

 lakes. This was the great hunting country of the 

 Six Nations. Here, too, many of the Canadian 

 Indians came for their winter supply of moose 

 meat and hides. The rival tribes fought over these 

 hunting grounds much in the same manner as the 

 northern and southern Indians warred for the con- 

 trol of Kentucky. 



Going westward in the United States we find no 

 moose until we reach the northern peninsula of 

 Michigan and northern Wisconsin, where moose 

 were once numerous. They are still abundant in 

 northern Minnesota, where the country is ex- 

 tremely well suited to their habits. Then there is a 

 break, caused by the great plains, until we reach 

 the Rocky Mountains. They are found along the 

 mountains of western Montana and Idaho as far 

 south as the northwest corner of Wyoming in the 

 neighborhood of the Yellowstone Park, the Tetons 

 and the Wind River Mountains being their south- 



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