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ing the extreme southwestern corner of Owyhee County. They range from 

 the Duck Valley Indian Reservation west to the Oregon line and probably 

 into Jordan Valley, Oreg., and from the Nevada State line to a point about 

 30 miles north. Stragglers and small bands undoubtedly stray beyond these 

 limits. They also cross southward into Nevada. Their main summer range is 

 about the forks of the Owyhee River and the Juniper Basin. E. Grandjean, 

 of the Forest Service, wrote that this band occupies the high plateau drained 

 by the Owyhee River at altitudes varying from 4,500 to 6,000 feet. This 

 area is fairly well watered and overgrown with grasses and sagebrush. In 

 the middle of it are located the low, hilly Juniper Mountains, which are very 

 rocky and cover an area approximately 10 miles wide by 20 miles long. This 

 main plateau, except the wooded part, is used by antelope as spring, fall, and 

 winter range. The animals usually appear there early in April and remain 

 until early in winter, when the snow compels them to leave for their winter 

 range, generally believed to be the low desert plateau lying south of the main 

 Owyhee River. 



Fig. 7. 



-The only band of antelope in Kansas occurs in the extreme southwestern 

 corner ; estimated to contain 8 animals 



14. Scattered bands numbering about 50 are reported to live on Browns 

 Bench, along the Nevada line, in Twin Falls County. These undoubtedly 

 range back an* forth across the State line. 



KANSAS 



The only antelope definitely reported as existing in Kansas in 1923 was a 

 band estimated to contain about 8 in the extreme southwestern part of the 

 State, in Morton County. According to State Game Warden J. B. Doze they 

 are reported to be more often in Oklahoma than in Kansas, passing back and 

 forth across the line (fig. 7). 



At one time Kansas was inhabited by myriads of pronghorns, and for years 

 after the construction of the transcontinental railroads they were a familiar 

 sight to passengers on the trains. In 1923, however, they had become almost 

 exterminated throughout the State. 



In a letter dated July 2, 1924, Hal G. Evarts, of Hutchinson, wrote that he 

 had recently received reliable information that in 1916 a herd of 62 pronghorns 

 was ranging about 25 miles northwest of Cimarron, in the Pawnee Creek 



