120 MIGHTY ANIMALS 



where now are great cities in which an elephant is 

 never seen except when on exhibition. And as- 

 tonishing does it seem that once such herds traveled 

 through the United States. 



But it was not until after the Mammoths had lived 

 for a long time in other countries that they came to 

 America. They found their way here from Asia by 

 crossing the strip of land that once connected that 

 continent with Alaska. The Hairy Mammoth 

 ranged from the Pacific to the Atlantic and about as 

 far south as the Middle States. Another species, 

 called the southern Mammoth, was in the meantime 

 living in Mexico and in the states as far north as 

 Washington city on the east and Washington state 

 on the west. These southern Mammoths were even 

 heavier and more awkward than the hairy species. 

 Once in a while, some of them wandered up into the 

 regions where the Hairy Mammoths lived, but they 

 did not make those regions their real homes. 



Yet, after all, the Mammoths were not the kings and 

 queens among the elephants of America. For the 

 Mastodons lived here in even larger numbers than did 

 the Mammoths, and they excelled them in weight, in 



