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But there was another method much more productive, and used by 
widely separated tribes. In his Snake Dance of the Moquis, Capt. 
John G. Burke gives the following: 
We passed, near the Hopi villages in northeast Arizona, close to an antelope 
“corral” of the Navahos. These are made of two converging lines of stone and 
brush. The Navaho warriors, mounting their fleetest ponies, will scour the 
country for miles, driving before them the luckless game, which after a while 
reaches the narrowest point of the corral and then falls a victim to the hunters in 
ambush. The Indians are careful not to kill all, but to allow a few to escape. 
This forbearance is partly based upon a desire to allow the game to reproduce, 
and is partly religious in character. 
And in the Lewis and Clark report: 
A camp of Mandans caught within two days one hundred goats [prong-horn] 
a short distance below us. Their mode of hunting them is to form a large strong 
pen or fold, from which a fence, made of bushes, gradually widens on each side; 
the animals are surrounded by the hunters, and gently driven towards this pen, 
in which they imperceptibly find themselves enclosed, and are then at the mercy 
of the hunters. 
This same method was used in the upper Yellowstone country by the 
Crows and Blackfeet. Even now there is the remains of an old ‘^corral’^ 
essentially as described, near Reese Creek, three miles north of the 
northern boundary, and another near Emigrant, Montana, thirty 
miles farther north. 
Perhaps another reason for the destruction of these beautiful animals 
was that they could be hunted at all times of the day, even during the 
noon-day hours when it was almost useless to try for deer and elk. 
On the other hand, antelopes were not only shy and wary and hard to 
approach, but they were also hard to kill. Colonel Roosevelt has 
stated that it was astonishing how fast a wounded animal, even when a 
leg was broken, could run unless given a more crippling wound. Even 
after having fallen, antelopes have been known to get up, throw off the 
hunters that may have laid hands on them, and escape. In contrast to 
the desirability of the meat the hides, either dressed as fur or tanned 
into leather, were not highly valued. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
Audubon and Bachman, Quadrupeds of North America, II, pp. 193-205, 1851. 
Bailey, Vernon, Old and New Horns of the Prong-horned Antelope, Journal of 
Mammalogy, pp. 128-129, May, 1920. 
Caton, J. D., The Antelope and Deer of America, pp. 21-65, 1877. 
