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3. About 75 are reported in adjacent parts of central Golden Valley and 
Billings Counties. This is the largest band reported in the State. William 
McCarthy, who owns 11,000 acres of rough, rolling land in the heart of the 
Bad Lands along the Missouri River, which affords a natural range for game, 
writes that when he came into possession of the range in 1910 there were about 
15 antelope there. Much hunted, they sought and were given every protection 
in his pastures, where they found running springs and flowing wells with an 
abundance of grass, and as a result have become very tame. 
4. Bands numbering 55 were reported in September, 1924, in the Bad Lands 
of the Little Missouri River in Slope County. 
5. In September, 1924, a band of 26 was reported from southwestern Bowman 
County. 
OKLAHOMA 
Of the vast number of antelope once roaming the prairies of Oklahoma only 
a single native band, containing 5 or 6 animals, was reported as surviving in 
1923, and the small band on the Wichita National Game Preserve, in Comanche 
County. (See PI. I.) 
Fig. 12. — Distribution of antelope in North Dakota, estimated at 225, in 5 areas 
In December, 1910, and January, 1911, the Boone and Crockett Club trans- 
ported 9 antelope from the Yellowstone National Park herd to the Wichita 
National Game Preserve. This experiment had an unfortunate ending, 
since all the animals died during the next few years. Another attempt 
was made in the fall of 1921 by the American Bison Society to established a 
herd on this preserve by placing there 10 animals which had been purchased at 
Brooks, Alberta. Six of these died shortly afterwards, and in the fall of 1922 
the Bison Society placed 6 more there from the same source. Of these 5 died 
shortly afterwards, leaving during the winter of 1922-23, 5 survivors from the 
original transplantings of 16. In the spring of 1923 the 3 females each gave 
birth to a pair of young, which were safely reared. This was duplicated in 
the spring of 1924, bringing the number in the herd to 17. The handicap 
which at first existed appears to have been overcome, and the outlook is favor- 
able for the establishment there of a good herd. 
