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BULLETIN 1346, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
ing the extreme southwestern corner of Owyhee County. They range from 
the Duck Valley Indian Reservation west to the Oregon line and probably 
into Jordan Valley, Oreg., and from the Nevada State line to a point about 
30 miles north. Stragglers and small bands undoubtedly stray beyond these 
limits. They also cross southward into Nevada. Their main summer range is 
about the forks of the Owyhee River and the Juniper Basin. E. Grandjean, 
of the Forest Service, wrote that this band occupies the high plateau drained 
by the Owyhee River at altitudes varying from 4,500 to 6,000 feet. This 
area is fairly well watered and overgrown with grasses and sagebrush. In 
the middle of it are located the low, hilly Juniper Mountains, which are very 
rocky and cover an area approximately 10 miles wide by 20 miles long. This 
main plateau, except the wooded part, is used by antelope as spring, fall, and 
winter range. The animals usually appear there early in April and remain 
until early in winter, when the snow compels them to leave for their winter 
range, generally believed to be the low desert plateau lying south of the main 
Owyhee River. 
KANSAS 
Fig. 7. — The only band of antelope in Kansas occurs in the extreme southwestern 
corner ; estimated to contain 8 animals 
14. Scattered bands numbering about 50 are reported to live on Browns 
Bench, along the Nevada line, in Twin Falls County. These undoubtedly 
range back and forth across the State line. 
KANSAS 
The only antelope definitely reported as existing in Kansas in 1923 was a 
band estimated to contain about 8 in the extreme southwestern part of the 
State, in Morton County. According to State Game Warden J. B. Doze they 
are reported to be more often in Oklahoma than in Kansas, passing back and 
forth across the line (fig. 7). 
At one time Kansas was inhabited by myriads of pronghorns, and for years 
after the construction of the transcontinental railroads they were a familiar 
sight to passengers on the trains. In 1923, however, they had become almost 
exterminated throughout the State. 
In a letter dated July 2, 1924, Hal G. Evarts, of Hutchinson, wrote that he 
had recently received reliable information that in 1916 a herd of 02 pronghorns 
was ranging about 25 miles northwest of Cimarron, in the Pawnee Crook 
