Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-01-23

deer have disappeared from their former haunts,s
and in much-hunted localities are only to be
found on the highest points where timber grows
Late in the season, when heavy snow falls, BANDS
of wapiti and mule deer are driven from their
refuge in the Yellowstone park and move down
to lower grounds in such places as jacksons
Hole or the valley of the Soshone river. Woe be-
tide these luckless wanderers if the open season
is still in force for at the head OF every pass leau
ing out of the game reserve are armed bodies OF
meat-hunters, who shoot on sight old or young
male or female, regardless of age, or sex, every
deer that is seen. More shame is it to the au-
thorities who still permit the sale of deer meat in
the surrounding towns.
Vast herds of deer congregate in the low
grounds during winters, and many hun
dreds of them perish for want OF food. 1t is no
uncommon event for kind-hearted farmers to feed
numbers of wapti from their stores of hay. But
the expense of this is more than these hard-Work-
ing individuals can stand, and something surely
should be done by the United States authorities 70
nrovide for the needs Of these fine animals, which
have been driven from their WINTER feeolng-
grounds by the settlers and their cattle.
The modus operandi of making trip after
waniti is too we'll known to need description II
undertaken early in the season by sportsman
who is well equipped with men and pack-horses
the expedition is rather in the nature OF pleas
.nt picnic The climatic conditions in September
and early october are generally perfect, while the
ahsence of mosquitoes and other biting flies make
these regions appear Paradise to one VINO mas
done much big-game hunting further northwest ID
tha real wilds of North America, which are only
now to be found in northern British Columbia
and alaska But if a sportsman delays his trip
until late in the fall, and then camps, as the
writer has done at ali altitude of over ten thou
sond feet he will find the early frosts and snow.
make life in tent, even in Wyoming, rather coid
or than is necessary for personal comfort
The way in which an American pack-horse can
thread its way through dense timber, or follow
norrow snake-like trail across dangerous rock
sldes Is little short of marvellous. 1t is an inter-
asting sight to see long line of these surefooted
animals threading their way in single ME along
tho face of a dangerous preciplce, OFTEN treadlng
in loose rolling rocks, in places where one raise
stan means a sheer drop of two thousand or three
Thousand feet into empty space. Yet 1t is seldom
that one falls of the trail. If this does happen
~ owner may bid goodby to his horse and all
tbat he carries since rarely anything but frag-
meDts are found afterwards on searching the
valley below
c,ronee to say although the Wyoming wapiti
bava developed unwonted cunning in seeking
their living and feeding grounds the are stun com
a+;voI, stupid animals to stalk. Especially so
3 this the case with travelling bulls when they are
.nrins +, search of cows. Then, by means of
nh;stliDp in very poor initiative style OF the
hniTs challenge solitary bull can oIten De caIe0
IN n within q few yards of the hunter The
writer and his guide have thus been enabled 70
follow bull for two miles through the FOREST
answering his repeated call at intervals unIis
snallv they have come face to face few yards