THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
parks amongst the timber, to an elevation of six or seven thousand feet. 
In some cases, to reach these, it must pass along the deer and bear paths 
through dense forest. Formerly the antelope was found far north in Mani- 
toba, west of the Pembina Mountains, where it is still called the Gabrie. 
They were plentiful in Central Manitoba until 1880, and are still found 
in the plains of Western Alberta to the east of Calgary. I saw several 
bands there from the train between Medicine Hat and Macleod in 1908, 
but snow storms and wire fences are rapidly reducing their numbers, and 
they will soon be extinct north of the Canadian Pacific Railway. 
Mr Brooks, on whose great ranch they are found, tells me that they try 
to migrate south in the first heavy snowfall in November, and when they 
meet with a wire fence they will not jump over it, but run helplessly up 
and down until they are starved. He has found several whole bands lying 
dead on the same spot. 
Prong -buck appear to be satisfied with a very limited range of prairie, 
provided that food and water are present at all seasons. They seem capable 
of withstanding a considerable degree of cold if there is not snow with it. 
A band will stay in a small region three or four miles across for a whole 
season, and will not leave it even if troops of migrating animals of the same 
species pass through it, because, knowing the local conditions they are 
satisfied with them. Where antelope are still fairly plentiful, and that is 
now in very few places, they are usually met with in small bands scattered 
over a wide area. In 1886 I found small parties of antelope about fifty miles 
north of Rawlins, Wyoming, and these increased in numbers until we 
reached the valley of the Sweet Water in the centre of the “bad-lands,” 
where they were literally in thousands. 
One morning I left a small ranch and, going about half a mile, stood 
upon a slight eminence on the prairie. I calculated that there were at 
least 1,000 antelope in view at the same moment. They were scattered 
about in small bands of from ten to twenty, and at the early hour of sunrise 
were mostly feeding. One party of twenty animals were, however, engaged 
in play and ran and chased each other in feigned alarm, constantly lowering 
and spreading the white discs on the buttocks which gleamed and flashed 
in the morning sun like snowy chrysanthemums. 
Although the ranchman seemed to do little else but shoot these antelope 
they were remarkably tame and several times allowed me to approach 
within 150 yards of a band, whilst later in the day, when my brother and 
I were travelling north in our buck-board, we often came to within closer 
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