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actly to the conduct of the barren-ground caribou under similar 
circumstances. 
They have often been killed by the hunter, who has ridden 
upon them on horseback when they were asleep and alone. If 
the instant the animal starts the horseman will stop he is almost 
sure of a shot. Under these circumstances the antelope will 
make but a few bounds before he will stop and look around to 
see what has alarmed him, when he may be taken at short range. 
The white tent of the hunter on the plains or in the ravines so 
attracts the curiosity of the Prong Buck that he will go quite up 
to it for a close inspection of it if he sees no one about it or in the 
neighborhood, and many a one who has been laying in camp 
from indisposition or for rest has thus secured antelope chops for 
supper as a surprise to his wearied comrade, who may have been 
unfortunate during the day, and when wending his weary way 
back sadly thought of an empty larder near the camp fire. 
I have seen accounts of coursing the antelope with greyhounds, 
but my information is not sufficient to enable me to speak ad- 
visedly on the subject, never having participated in the sport 
myself, nor conversed with one who has done so. I can imagine 
no finer game for this sport than the Prong Buck. A practically 
limitless plain, smooth and level, with no impediments to ob- 
struct the view or the chase, presents the fittest ground for such 
sport. With an animal so fleet that he would leave the hounds 
far in the rear for the first few miles, yet always in sight so as 
to stimulate the dogs in the pursuit, whose better wind would 
soon tell, they would, before many miles were passed over, run 
into the quarry. 
After they obtained horses, and before they procured fire-arms, 
the aborigines pursued the antelope on horseback. Under date 
of August 14, 1805, Lewis and Clark gave an account of a hunt 
on the pass of the Rocky Mountains, between the head waters of 
the Missouri River and Lewis River. They say: “ The chief 
game of the Shoshonees, therefore, is tke antelope, which, when 
pursued, retreats to the open plains, where the horses have full 
room for the chase. But such is its extraordinary fleetness and 
wind, that a single horse has no possible chance of outrunning it, 
or tiring it down; and the hunters are therefore obliged to resort 
to stratagem. 
“ About twenty Indians, mounted on fine horses, and armed 
with bows and arrows, left the camp. In a short time they 
descried a herd of ten antelopes; they immediately separated into 
