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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
westward of the Mississippi, in the vast plains which constitute 
so large a portion of that country, up to the base of the Rocky 
Mountains, and beyond them, to the shores of the Pacific. It 
is shot in the same manner as the common Deer, by stalking it; 
which is more than ordinarily difficult, from the fact, that it is 
rarely found in the woodland districts, preferring the wide 
prairies, on which its quick eye and discriminating nostril can 
detect an enemy at above a mile’s distance. The observations 
I have made in relation to the use of Deer-hounds, are even 
more applicable to this, than to the common species, from the 
nature of the ground that it inhabits. 
But my limits warn me to abstain from farther discussion of 
Deer hunting, a subject to which I hope I have done justice, 
albeit it is not a favorite field sport of mine,—for nobler quarry, 
the Elk, the Bison, and the Bear, are summoning me angrily 
Westward, and the Wild Turkey will not be forgotten. 
