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A hunting party in the chicken country, 
Hunting Chickens in the 
Sage Brush Hills 
in the Bracing Days of Early Autumn, 
the Prairie Grouse Is Strong of Wing 
By T. H. GRANT 
telling friends of hunting inci- 
dents in Wyoming I have said my 
right barrel bird fell on the Atlan- 
tic Slope and the left barrel bird on 
the Pacific Slope which is figuratively, 
if not literally, true. Several seasons 
I have seen, among, around and over 
the Sage brush hills bordering the 
North Platte river between North Park 
and the Union Pacific Railway, mostly 
on the Atlantic Slope. We have crossed 
the continental divide and hunted chick- 
ens on the other side returning the 
same day. 
I recall a trip in August, 1919. Two 
cars, Selby’s Winton and Ball’s Mar- 
mon, left Saratoga, Wyoming, with 
seven of us, men and women, about 
eight in the morning. We ran twenty- 
two miles to the divide, then along the 
top a few miles before the drop off 
to the Pacific. A few chickens were 
picked up on the way down till we 
camped for the mid-day meal some 
eleven miles from the divide. It was 
usual to take birds and fish of a pre- 
vious day’s killing as they are better 
in that dry climate than those freshly 
killed or caught. With our collapsible 
cooking and table outfit it was not a 
serious matter to prepare a good meal. 
On this occasion, while we were eat- 
ing, one of those sage brush hill whirl- 
winds aproached rapidly. Mrs. B. 
grabbed the camera and waited for a 
snapshot while Baldy Sisson remarked 
she had better shoot a hole in it than 
have it hit us as it would surely muss 
things up if it did. However, a good 
picture was taken before it struck us 
or faded away into the rest of the hills. 
After lunch we spread about along 
the draws and easily got our lawful 
allotment. On returning to the cars, 
Baldy asked the writer why he had 
not shot at a bird he was holding on. 
My reply was that I had shot my share. 
We had seven times four, just the limit 
and left for home early in the after- 
noon. Supper was cooked two or three 
miles on the Atlantic side of the di- 
vide when I had the presumption to 
advise the ladies how to boil trout and 
fry onions. 
Another day in August of the same 
year I developed a second section of 
the “flu. We came up on Loco creek 
or bottoms, about twenty miles out. 
Being short of breath, I could not 
tramp much. I just went along to see 
the others do it. We were out for an 
afternoon’s hunt and supper on the 
bottoms to return in the evening under 
the lights. 
The air is generally very clear, so 
that one can see plainly and at a con- 
siderable distance. Bill was off on the 
left side of the car. I could see him 
putting up a bundle of chickens. I 
concluded I had better take the old 
Parker 20-gauge and walk a few yards 
ahead as some birds might chance to 
drift down towards the car. 
FTER Bill had made several shots 
I.saw him pass one up. I con- 
cluded it must be an old bird, which 
we do not shoot. It came down from 
the sage brush hill like a bullet di- 
It will identify you. 
