ranging nearly or quite to the Atlantic seaboard, and 

 though as late as 1870 millions of these animals 

 ranged the western plains 5 by 1883 they had been 

 practically exterminated. There still remain a herd 

 of twenty on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake, 

 about 400 in Yellowstone Park, To in a private herd 

 in Texas, 200 in a private herd at Cavalli, Mont., 

 and a few others in Zoological gardens and private 

 herds. In captivity they have been successfully 

 crossed with polled Angus cattle. 



Elk Family. — In the south end of the same case is 

 the family of the American elk or wapiti. They 

 live in the north and northwest part of the United 

 States and northward to the 57th parallel. They 

 live in small families of six or seven in the woodsy- 

 feeding on grass and young shoots. The hide is 

 valuable because it does not harden after getting 

 wet. 



Eastern Deer. — Just east of the last is the case of 

 Eastern deer, containing the common Virginia deer 

 and the Caribou or American reindeer. It is 

 believed that the latter is the same as the well known 

 reindeer of Europe, so invaluable to the Laplanders 

 and others of that continent, though it has not been 

 domesticated in this country. 



