Aug. 23, 1913. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
3 S 3 
If only we could have true conservation of 
forest, game and fish, what a country it would 
remain. I think the leaven begins to work. Let 
us hope so and lose no opportunity to put in 
a good word in aid of every step that leads 
public opinion in the right direction. 
Good roads are now an assured fact brought 
on by getting the public to think first and then 
to act, and just as so many country folk were 
“agin" automobiles, so it is admitted now that 
the automobiles have been the “moving cause” 
for this desire by all to have good roads. Con¬ 
servation will likewise come. 
I was the first to leave the party, feeling 
the necessity of getting back to work. I left a 
delightful party who returned Tuesday to make 
room for yet others who desire to visit this 
beautiful country at Grimshawe's, and I hope to 
return yet again and again myself. 
Ernest L. Ewbanic. 
The Antelope of the Plains. 
BY D. M. EDGERTON. 
The fascinating, open, airy and light 
“plains hunting” and chasing was the antelope, 
of which small herds or “bunches,” as was the 
way it was called, are still to be found in re¬ 
mote and undisturbed sections. 
Back in the '60s and ’70s they were here, 
there and everywhere in Western Kansas and in 
all Colorado, outside the mountains, and in limited 
numbers in the mountain parks. Their feeding, 
breeding and home grounds are upon the open 
plains and in the sandhills; among the pines in 
the Northwest, deer are hunted, “stalking” on 
foot and without bounds. In Florida they are 
bunted on horseback with slow trailing hounds, 
followed closely. Feeding, as they mostly do, 
at night, and passing from one pine flat and 
marsh to another, like cattle in grazing, they 
lay up in the daytime in some “bunch” or patch 
of saw palmetto—called “saw” from the fact 
that the blades of the stalk have teeth like a saw, 
the plant being three to five feet in height. 
When after perhaps hours of trailing, the hound 
leads into one of these bunches of palmettos, it 
is “lookout” for your hound, as then he is pretty 
sure to “jump” a deer, and it is for the hunter 
to “catch” him with buckshot from bis shotgun. 
It is most delightful sport in the open pine 
flats in that soft and seductive climate. 
But for fair and airy, healthy and invigorat¬ 
ing sport in the clear and bracing atmosphere 
of the altitude of the plains and in sight of the 
mountains and on horseback, deer hunting be- 
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comes tame as compared with going after ante¬ 
lope. 
The writer, during the last years of the ’6cs 
and the early years of the ’70s, had so many 
and repeated captivating experiences in it that 
it would take a book to tell of more than an 
occasional one. Compelled by ill health to give 
up business and seek for its restoration, he went 
to Colorado in 1869. A year before Denver 
had a railroad, bought a ranch near where the 
city of Colorado Springs now stands, and two 
years later, moved from there to the Arkansas 
River, midway between Fort Lyon and Pueblo, 
where the range for cattle was larger and better. 
At both ranches, I was seldom without a 
visiting, sojourning friend, Colorado and the 
Rocky Mountains being then the attraction for 
those who had the time and the means to 
make the trip. On the first of these places was 
sent, during the autumn of '70, two companies 
of the 8th U. S. Cavalry, noted for the general 
roughness of its cavalrymen, and by its Lieu- 
tent-Colonel Mcjiroy, l was presented with a 
large and fine greyhound, which I carried with 
me to the Arkansas River ranch, and with it 
had many an antelope and jackrabbit chase. My 
greyhound would not run a “bunch” of ante¬ 
lope, but when I could separate one, she would 
sail away over the flat and hard mesa until 
taken. Antelope have, to a degree, the gift of 
“curiosity” for strange objects, like a red flag 
to a bull, and would stand for a time, and often 
approach some new object purposely set to 
attract them. 
The writer has ridden by a bunch of them 
grazing like sheep within fifty yards and with¬ 
out disturbing them in the least, provided rider 
and horse were to the “leeward”; but circle 
around to their “windward,” and, presto, it is 
“one time and one motion”-—the whole flock 
is automatically off and away. Riding over the 
range one day, I took my greyhound and shep¬ 
herd dog, and upon a broad mesa I saw three 
antelope standing watching our movements from 
a distance. Quietly engaging the attention of 
my hound to numerous coyotes on the op¬ 
posite side, I worked around closer toward my 
antelope until I saw they were about to break, 
When I called my bound’s attention to them, 
and away it bounded toward them—the lesser 
dog “hot after". This attracted our game still 
more, until suddenly they broke, two in one 
direction and one in another, after which the 
hound went under all sail, my horse under full 
run, leaving the dog chasing up the rear. After 
a long run, I saw the antelope zig-zagging— 
stampeded by fright—and I knew we had him. 
Immediately the hound seized him by the ham, 
as they do, “ham-strung” him and threw him. 
As T rode up, there lay the antelope taking bis 
last gasp, the greyhound standing with one foot 
upon his neck with head high in the air. eyes 
shut, mouth wide open taking in air—a picture 
for a painter. It was such a picture that I sat 
gazing upon it for some time. The especial 
point in natural study was that the greyhound 
kept a foot upon the antelope’s neck while, re¬ 
covering wind, so as to be warned of any move¬ 
ment of the downed victim. Taking the 
“finish,” it was a chase of unblemished beauty. 
After a dressing, I carried him home, as usual. 
With me on the river ranch at one time 
was a visiting “Buckeye” friend, full of this, to 
him, new life, to whom I said one morning, 
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