THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
that no white man, legitimately trying to get a good sheep by fair hunting, 
shall go after them. Of course, travelling Indians must have meat, in 
order to live, but when they do such things as to wipe out the whole of the 
game in a certain area, as they did a few years ago in the Itcha Mountains, 
where they killed the whole of the caribou, and left the carcasses to rot, 
it is time some restriction was placed upon them. 
I shall never forget one evening in Wyoming on the Red Fork of 
Powder River, when smoking a pipe, and regarding with joy the heads of 
two splendid wapiti stags I had just shot, I looked upwards to the top of 
the bluff and there, against the setting sun, was a magnificent mountain 
ram. He stood for half an hour looking down at our camp, until twilight 
hid him from view, and I experienced all the hunter’s desire to capture 
those splendid horns. For two mornings I climbed at dawn and found 
his fresh tracks, but I never saw him again. 
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