1 8 Deer and Antelope of North America 



There is yet ample opportunity for the big game 

 hunter in the United States and Canada; while 

 not even in the old days was it possible to go on 

 any trip better worth taking than the recent suc- 

 cessful hunt of Mr. Dall DeWeese, of Canon City, 

 Colorado, after the giant moose, giant bear, white 

 sheep, and caribou of Alaska. 

 ^^ While it is necessary to give this word of warn- 

 ing to those who, in praising time past, always 

 forget the opportunities of the present, it is a 

 thousand fold more necessary to remember that 

 these opportunities are, nevertheless, vanishing; 

 and if we are a sensible people, we will make it 

 our business to see that the process of extinction 

 is arrested. At the present moment the great 

 herds of caribou are being butchered as in the 

 past the great herds of bison and wapiti have 

 been butchered. Every believer in manliness, 

 and therefore in manly sport, and every lover of 

 nature, every man who appreciates the majesty 

 and beauty of the wilderness and of wild life, 

 should strike hands with the far-sighted men who 

 wish to preserve our material resources, in the 

 effort to keep our forests and our game beasts, 

 game birds, and game fish — indeed all the living 

 creatures of prairie, and woodland, and seashore 

 , — from wanton destruction. 

 ■*" Above all, we should realize that the effort 

 toward this end is essentially a democratic move- 



