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successful guide. His ranch is four miles from 
the Northwest corner of the Yellowstone Park. 
Prominent sportsmen who have hunted with 
him attest his knowledge of the country of 
which he writes, as well as his perennial good 
nature and fine sense of sportsmanship. 
Miller is a conservationist who believes in 
a sound program of action as opposed to senti- 
mentality. 
was to get close enough to get a picture and yet not frighten 
the game. 
The illustration was not taken in masquerade costume nor in 
evening clothes, but is the best outfit I know of in which to ap- 
proach game when there is much snow on the ground and on 
the bushes, provided the wind is right. 
In hunting coyotes out on the prairies, I used to use a white 
suit when there was much snow on the ground and it proved to 
be a very effective rig. At fifty yards one is almost invisible, 
and under certain lights and at certain angles one is practically 
invisible at a few feet. 
HAVE often walked right up to men, when dressed in a soft 
white cotton wool coverall suit with a white hood to match, 
and given them a real surprise, and once when coming down 
the trail I met a rider coming toward me. I did not realize how 
inconspicuous I was and did not speak until I got right near him, 
and his horse gave a snort and almost unloaded him right there 
in a snow bank. 

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; This chap seems proud of the four-prong antlers he 
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I scared that brone out of about four years’ growth. Since wears, but he is young yet. Some day he may carry 
around a regular “daddy rocking-chair” 
then I have often used this camouflage to advantage and it helps 
a lot when everything is covered with snow. 
Then during other seasons of the year, when riding the high 
ranges, one often spots game at long range, and it is often pos- 
sible to make a successful stalk and obtain a photograph. 
Mountain sheep, bear and coyotes. are the hardest to photo- 
graph of the big game animals we have in our section, and of 
these the bear and coyote are much harder to get than the sheep. 
The reason sheep are harder to approach than deer or elk is be- 
cause there is often no cover that can be used to conceal one’s 
approach to within camera range. It is one thing to get within 
150 yards of an animal, but to get within 25 or 30 yards is 
quite another. 
Several years ago on the Madison River in Montana, I came 
upon five sheep crossing the river. They waded out to a little 
island and fed around there, and I was able to get several very 
fair pictures of them as the willows on the edge of the stream 
afforded good cover. 
Moose are rather curious and often stand around long enough 
for one to obtain a good picture, even after the hunter has been 
sighted. The thing that appeals to me about hunting with a 
camera is the fact that one is never through, as for instance, 
when one kills an elk and the limit is only one per season, that 
settles it; but with a camera one can be out all day and every day, 
and no matter how many shots at game one may get, the game 
is still there and can be shot again by other camera hunters, 
and the only limit to the “bag” is one’s ability to approach game 
to the point where it can be photographed. 
Re experience that one gets in this sort of hunting can be 
put to good use in ordinary forms of hunting, for one learns 
a great deal about stalking game and also becomes much better 
aquainted with its habits while trying to get within camera range. 
I believe that as one becomes better acquainted with the wild 
creatures of the mountains and forests, one loses his desire for The siesta is good for both man and beast. The 
: photographer caught this fellow napping in a shady 
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