Photo by Geoi'ge Shiras, 3rd 



Tllli LARGE COW MOOSE THAT EDUCATED HERSEEE (SEE PAGE 447) 



She stood broadside, head up, and unquestionably looking at me out of one eye, but to all 

 appearances utterly indifferent to my approach 



of rodent life, and hence in such locaH- 

 ties one may find man}' horns and most 

 of them in perfect condition. 



Such as have become bleached frum 

 long exposure can be stained to their 

 natural color, and, when mounted on a 

 wooden base the fac-simile of a frontal 

 bone, resemble in all respects those of a 

 freshly killed animal. While it has long 

 been the custom in this country to mount 

 the head and neck, in time the shrinking 

 skin, the twisted ears, and the ravages 

 of the moths greatly impair the work of 

 the ordinary taxidermist, so that the old 

 English method of simply using the 

 horns and part of the skull has much to 

 recommend it ; for such ancient speci- 

 mens after untold centuries are often 

 superior to those in this country after a 

 lapse of a few years. 



Of course, in the mounting of shed 

 antlers, only the largest and most sym- 



metrical should be used, in contrast to 

 the habit of mounting many inferior 

 heads : but a great deal of pleasure can 

 be had and much information obtained 

 by collecting in the wilderness all sizes 

 and shapes of horns, and it is immaterial 

 that in many cases only a single antler 

 can be found. 



During explorations covering three 

 seasons in the Rocky Mountains, I dis- 

 covered along the upper Yellowstone 

 River, partly in the park and partly in 

 Wyoming, a very large number of moose 

 occupying a valley four miles wide and 

 thirty miles long, at an elevation of 8,000 

 feet, where, isolated in the wildest and 

 least frequented portion of the country, 

 they had thrived unknown to the public. 

 My notes and photographs, covering ob- 

 servations of more than 500 moose and 

 in a country where they were then sup- 

 posed to be practically extinct, was most 



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