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8. About 130 are reported about 7 miles southwest of Gillette, in Camp- 
bell County. These are said to be fast decreasinjr as a result of hunting. 
9. In this area approximately 350 antelope range on the Belle Fourche 
River, in Campbell County. Their numbers are reported to be rapidly de- 
creasing through shooting. 
10. About 60 antelope are reported along the Little Missouri River and 
the North Fork of the Cheyenne, in Crook County. These animals undoubtedly 
range back and forth across the border into Montana. They are reported 
to be rapidly decreasing. 
11. One hundred .and fifty antelope are reported to range on Lodge Pole, 
Prairie Dog, and Black Thunder Creeks and Cheyenne River in Weston 
County. 
12. About 300 range along Antelope, Bear, and Sand Creeks, in northern 
Converse County. 
13. Three bands, totaling about 70, appear to be generally scattered over 
the northern half of Niobrara County. 
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Fig. 18. — Distribution of antelope in Wyoming, estimated at 6,977, in 27 areas 
14. In southern Niobrara County is a band numbering about 180, and there 
are 90 near Raw Hide Butte, in northern Goshen County. These herds appear 
to be about holding their own. 
15. This area, covering part of northern Platte County, is reported to have 
about 330 antelope, in tw^o bands of 150 each, ranging on Glendo and Flat 
Top Creeks and Laramie River, and one band of 30 on Fish Creek. 
16. This area, in middle eastern Platte County, is reported to have about 
75 antelope, mainly about Goshen Hole and Deer Creek, near AVheatland. 
17. In the middle eastern part of Albany and soutliern Platte Counties 
there are about 142 antelope, made up of three bands, numbering, respectively, 
12, 45, and 85, ranging on Sibylee, Antelope, and North Chugwater Creeks. 
These are reported to be decreasing as the result of shooting. 
18. About 150 antelope are reported as ranging on Horse and Bear Creeks, 
in Laramie County. These are said to be decreasing rapidly. 
19. A band of 15 lives on Mule Creek in nortliern Albany County near 
Marshall. 
