STATUS OF THE PRONGHORNED- ANTELOPE, 1922-1924 3 
animals attracted the attention of the first European observers. 
Throughout the antelope country in Mexico and the southwestern 
United States the Mexicans still term these animals "berrendos," 
the " v " of the old Spanish having been replaced by the modern 
" b." As a matter of course the pronghorn must have been a familiar 
animal to the hardy Spaniards, who overran all parts of Mexico and 
much of the southwestern and western United States in their search 
for gold, but their records of the animal life seen are exceedingly 
scanty. 
Subsequent occupation of the continent has shown that the prong- 
horn ranged over an enormous area. (See map, fig. 1.) It occurred 
over parts of the present Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and 
Alberta, in Canada. In the United States it occupied the country 
from western Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, reach- 
ing the Gulf coast near the mouth of the Rio Grande, and west to 
eastern ^Washington, Oregon, and the Pacific coast in California. 
In Mexico it occupied the open plains country of, the tableland 
south almost to 20° of latitude, nearly to the Yalleyof Mexico; also 
the western part of Sonora and most of Lower California. 
Table 1. — Distribution of -antelope in North America, 1922-102.^ 
Region 
Areas 
Number 
of ante- 
lope 
Region 
Areas 
Number 
of ante- 
lope 
Arizona . 
18 
6 
28 
14 
1 
44 
10 
11 
31 
5 
2 
4 
11 
42 
10 
27 
651 
1,057 
1,233 
1,485 
8 
3,027 
187 
4,253 
1,682 
225 
23 
2,039 
680 
2,407 
670 
6,977 
Canada: 
5 
9 
California 
1,030 
Colorado. . 
297 
Total, Canada 
Mexico: 
Coahuila l _ 
Chihuahua : 
Durango... _ 
Kansas 
14 
1,327 
Montana . 
1 
1 
Nebraska ..__. ... ... 
600 
700 
(?) 
Nevada 
Sonora __ .. ... .. 
4 
2 
595 
Oklahoma ... _______ 
Lower California l 
500 
Oregon 
Total, Mexico 
8 
1 2, 395 
South Dakota 
Summary: 
United States 
Texas 
264 
14 
8 
Utah. 
26,604 
Wyoming 
Canada . 
1,327 
i 2, 395 
Total, United States 
264 
26,604 
Grand total 
286 
30, 326 
1 Estimated. 
Through the occupation of its territory by man the pronghorn has 
become extinct in many of its former haunts, but it has survived in 
limited numbers over an amazing proportion of its original range in 
Canada, Mexico, and in 16 of the western States of this country. 
Originally over most of the enormous territory occupied the prong- 
horn was very abundant. Its range covered not only j)ractically all 
of the buffalo country west of the Mississippi River but a vastly 
greater area. Where the pronghorn occurred with the buffalo people 
best qualified to judge consider that it exceeded that animal in num- 
bers. It has been estimated that the buffalo herds at one time num- 
bered from thirty to sixty million animals. In view of the greater 
territory occupied by the pronghorn and its known abundance, it 
may be considered a conservative estimate to place its probable origi- 
