Sharp County record., 1885-07-02
SNIPE IN WYOMING.
he Kind of Game Found in tie Far West
Hunting for Tenderfeet'

Hunting for Tenderfeet.
t There are good many kinds of game
i'd Wyoming. Prominent in the list are
t ,ntelope, deer, elk, sage hens, bear, in
lrequent buffalo, Elusive Indians, cur
isory cowboys, philanthropic rattle
makes and confding tenderfeet.
i The cowboys hunt all the different
Varieties of game mentioned with great
success, but the emerald-hued tender
loot is their meat. They would rather
bac one tenderfoot than dozen griz-
lilies or a brace of Indians. The danger
Is vastly less, and there is heaps more
of fun.
/ AS for the tenderfoot, he would rather
be chased all day. and even caught and
bitten, bv an antelope than be corralled
for an hour by cowboy on the war
bath. The danger to the tenderioot
lies in the fact that while there is some
thing fierce and blood curdling in the
angry glances of the antelope, the cow
how is as mild-mannered and sweet
voiced as a summers breeze. The ten
derfoot may escape the rattle-snake,
and even by great deXterity elude the
antelope. only to be gathered in by the
cowboy. When the tenderfoot sports
man leaves the train at Cheyenne or
Rawlins, disguised as walking arsenal,
he is at once spotted and marked down
by some friendly cowboy fora "sn ping"
expedition.
Didn't know you had snipeS out
here" says the tenderfoot I'm going
in for grizzlies, buffalo and that sort of
thing"
ANY fellow can out-wrcstle a griz-
zly, or knock over dozen buffalo, re-
spends the cowboy: "but if you want
sport that is sport, you just want to &C
'sniping.' 1t takes rustler from Rus
tlerville to get snipe out here Game?
That's no name for it''
In the end the tenderfoot, who wants
to see "all there is to it," gladly ac-
cepts.
Then the cowboy, with party of his
friends, takes the tenderfOot under his
kindly care. They outfit him with
either broken-down or bucking
oroncho, and astonish him with the in
formation that he must leave all his
lrtilerv behind They don't capture
;nipe with guns they know trick
worth several gross of that. The only
Dad they allow him to take is whisky,
which they generously insist on help
Ing him carry at his expense. After a
hong, hard trip through sand and sage
brush, they pause at nightfall at the
mouth of g gloomy canyon, or possibly
in the edge of a wood although timber
$n most parts of Wyoming is as hard to
capture as grizzly or paying gold,
mime.
They dismount and prepare prim-
tive camp for the night Then they
take weary, devious tramp to the
spot where the snipc are said to be
plenty. 1t is now dark as a pocket.
There is a lantern in the outfit, or else
torch is provided. "A meal-bag is pro-
duced, and the mouth of it is fastened
open by the insertion of an improvised
hoop.
"What does all this meanP How in
thunder are you going to catch your
snipe?" asks the tenderfoot
"Snipe are just like fish and moths
and : ch, says the cowboy; 1.-The light
attracts them. It's about time for them
to take a rise, and then they will fly
straight for this ere blaze. Now you
just stand here and hold the torch and
the bag, and when you hear 'em COM
ing you just clap your bag over 'em,
and there they are
"But who's to stay here with me?
Where are you all going?" asks the
tenderfoot, as all the others show evil
dent intentions of going ahead.
he doesn't want to say he is afraid to
be alone, but he feels that way.
"Oh, we only leave one man in
place. Two would scare off the birds;
so we Just scatter along, and when our
bags are all full we come back over the
trail. Wen be here before you get
your bag crowded, unless you are spry-
or n most new men,.
Then they 90 on, and soon he can
hear no sound of them, no matter how
hard he strains both his ears. Present
ly he does hear the wall of coyotes that
he mistakes for wolves drawing nearer
and nearer, till his hair rises and his
bone feels like an icicle.
Like an inspiration it suddenly occurs
to him to take good stiff drink to brace
himself up, only to make the agreeable
discovery that the cowboys have evil
IDENTIFY forgotten to leave even his own
private flask. The situation is not of
a character to superinduce hilarity. He
holds bag and torch until cold or fear
or common-sense-ca him to drop
1t. The snipe do not appear neither
DO his friends. He is unarmed. He
knows no more which way tO oo than