Photographing Wild Game 



to those large enough to deserve a name and 

 a place on the map. They are the great 

 summer home of the deer and elk. Frequent 

 rains cause a most abundant growth of 

 herbage suitable for their food, and the 

 higher ground provides cool retreats for the 

 male deer and elk while their horns are 

 growing and hardening. They never leave 

 these plateaus until driven down by the snow. 

 Here elk and deer have for the past few 

 years existed in sufficient numbers to give 

 abundant sport. Farther to the north, where 

 these plateaus break into the sage-brush 

 plains of Wyoming, antelope inhabit the 

 larger parks, and from these feed up for some 

 distance through more open timber on the 

 slopes of the surrounding hills. In this more 

 northerly locality I have succeeded in getting 

 photographs of elk, antelope, and deer, all 

 within a distance of but a few miles. 



My first experience with an ordinary 

 camera soon showed me that, at the usual 

 distances, pictures of game would be so 

 small as to be of no use. With a year's ex- 

 perience to guide me, I began the construc- 

 tion of a camera especially adapted for the 



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