Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1912-06-28
HUNT FOR ROCKY
MOUNTAIN GOAT
INTERESTING EXCURSION IN
SEARCH or THIS ELUSIVE
ANIMAL.

Baxter u. LiEhiipoii y taheh run
the May issue Of the National
Sportsman.
Nsx week we will reprint an ar
ticle from the June issue, written
by pr. -. p. Higes, entitled "A
Trip TO the Reddish Lakes.
have taken the National Sports
man so long and read so many in
teresiins things in is pages, writ
ten by other readers, that feel II
Kind Of religious duty to tell
National friends about Rocky
Mountain goat hunt that, II 1t is
bali as Interesting 10 them 10 read
AS q was me- 10 realize, you will all
pursue Il eighteen times and COM
mence to cloan up the biggest rifle
you can find and begin to hunt
for nay town on your bran new
map Of Idaho.
This story is so true 10 fairly
irighieas nae yet, II was Az mighty
early November, and the only snow
e be encountered and resented
was on the north sides OF the very
high peaks Of our blg,iocundmoun-
tains Of tho justly famous and APP
pfepflatcly named Sawtooth range.
jim jenkins, Henry Lightfoot
and Hardy Liehilooi showed up at
vi orc Gold Mine, on Bear Greek,
ia The heart Of the sawtooths on
iha evening Of The second day Of
a certain November, and dared ms
90 quit my work long enough TO
share with them the right regal
pleasure Of running down and as
sassinalins a few big goats.
accepted the challenge, albeit |
Inc only rifle al the cabin for me
to take along was superannuated
A calibre Marlin that | had been
using for The purpose Of decapi-
tating good many Of the blue
grouse that were very plentiful in
che Bear Greek community. SO
appropriated Cornish Biliie's poor
old Marlin. and next morning we
loaded two good packhorsos with
email supply Of food and big sup
ply OF bedding. and moved off up
Bear Greek for quarter Of a
mile, to where Goat Greek comes
ia al right angles from the north.
Then we swung up Goat Creek for
about a mile or two hours, which
ever you choose TO call it. No hui
man being would be mean enough
10 lead a heavily laden paokhorso
up that mountain any faster than
that. when We had finally reached
4 point on the mountain about one
and a half miles northwest Of the |
,abin, We came upon one Of those s
successors Of fine, {
,old springs. oozing. bubbling, and '
yurgiiag cut Of The big mountain [
Iide. so common in the Rocky a
Mountains. !
Here wo found plenty OF wood c
md fine water. about two acres OF v
ire grass. and so many grouse we y
imply got tired OF soaring them k
'ul. But we had one for supper Il
hat shot with Jim jenkins % II
dariin. which rifle Jim had a
'rought along TO keep the camp e
Implied with chicken. Il
We unpacked our horses. pitched Il
ar tent. made lunch OF cold edi- o
les provided from the breakfast /,
able at the mine that morning, Il
nd paired off for a hunt. III
The crest OF the mountain, some Of
X hundred yards above us. des- q
ribbed perfect horseshoe. with K
10 toe OF the shoe 10 the north, d
nd the calks on the southeast and o,
,uthwost Of our camp. o'
Henry and Hardy Lightfoot 10
united together that afternoon OF
I'd jim jenkins and tried for n,
,oul five hours TO get fresh goat CO
eat for our camp. Bat we only in
anaged 70 locate two old billies, m
"a Two old biiiies located us right Ia
ere and then. and. as Jim said, bf
Them old long whiskered fools VI
am Up a wall Nv rocks as high All
Jacobs ladder and SO steep a
.sen couldn't fly down Il without ia
'eechin on" Sc
We followed them, but only with in
lr eyes. lh
Il can so anywhere a goat can TO
>" said Jim, "but l can't do Il 10
fast as them damn fools can" an
think when we returned TO an
imp that evening, We all felt well Ia
aid for an awfully hard after ";
,on's climbing for We had all been an
every kind Of possible danger Of w
our blamed fool necks a bu
zen times or more. We had ali
en-, from the different points Of an