SECOND TRIP TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS 



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ALTHOUGH amongst the few wapiti and 

 mule deer I had shot in the autumn of 1897, 

 two of the former and one of the latter had 

 carried fairly good heads for nowadays, I had got 

 nothing really large, nor had I seen a Bighorn ram 

 at all; and it was in the hope of getting better heads 

 of the two first-named animals, and perhaps secur- 

 ing a specimen of a Rocky Mountain sheep as well, 

 that I determined to make a second trip to Western 

 America in the following year. 



As I could not afford to be absent from home 

 for more than two months, I made arrangements 

 with Graham my guide and hunter of the previous 

 year to meet me at the little mining town of Red 

 Lodge in Montana on a certain date. Having hunted 

 the previous year during the months of September 

 and October, I now wished to spend November in 

 the mountains, as Graham thought that all the game 

 would have been driven down on to their winter 

 feeding-grounds by that time, and that I would there- 

 fore have a chance of seeing a good many wapiti 

 bulls and picking a good head or two. 



