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acclimatize the antelope—in the Wichita National Bison 
Range, in Oklahoma, and in the Montana Bison Range, at 
Ravalli. In 1911 the Boone and Crockett Club provided a 
fund which defrayed the expenses of shipping from the Yel- 
lowstone Park a small nucleus herd to each of those ranges. 
Eight were sent to the Wichita Range, of which five arrived 
alive. Of the seven sent to the Montana Range, four ar- 
rived alive and were duly set free. In 1913 four young were 
born in that little herd. 
The province of Alberta, in Canada, still permits the 
hunting and killing of antelope; which is wholly and entirely 
wrong. 
Tue Bic-Horn SHeep.—Of North American big game, the 
big-horn of the Rockies will be, after the antelope, the next 
species to become extinct outside of protected areas. In the 
United States that event is fast approaching. It is far 
nearer than even the big-game sportsmen realize. There 
are to-day only two localities in the four states that still 
think they have killable sheep, in which it is worth while to 
go sheep-hunting. One is in Montana, and the other is in 
Wyoming. In the United States a really big, creditable ram 
may now be regarded as an impossibility. There are now 
perhaps half a dozen guides who can find killable sheep in our 
country, but the game consists nearly always of young rams, 
under five years of age. 
All the states that still permit the killing of mountain 
sheep are making a particularly stupid and fatal blunder. 
Their game laws permit the killing of rams only, and with the 
fatuous folly of an imperilled ostrich that sticks its head in 
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