The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-02-03
By ARTHUR ROBINSON

Ned Frost, famous American hunt
er and guide, who has hunted big
game from the Yukon to Old Mexico,
and who has conducted hunting par
ties for such noted personages as the
late "Bet-a-Million Gates and the
Prince of Monaco, owner of Monte
Carlo, left Livingston last week on
his way east to plead better winter
ranges for Montana and Wyoming
elk.
Pressure is being brought to bear
on the forestry department to res
trict the grazing of livestock on the
elk winter ranges" declares the man
who has been mauled by four grizzly
bears, once within an inch of his
life.
Il intend to see DR.. William T.
Hornaday of the Bronx zoo in New
York and Professor Osborne, head of
the American Museum of Natural
History, concerning the matter and
see If something cannot be done to
save the elk in Montana and Wyom-
ing" he added.
Winter ranges for the elk are be-
ing encroached upon through the GUS
tom of allowing cattle, horses and
sheep to Craze on them. This is a
most detrimental practice. When
driven down from the mountains by
heavy snow the elk find their VIM
ter ranges occupied by livestock, and
they perish by the thousands.
4 Many Elk Die Each Winter
'Ten thousand elk died in the yell
lowstone park country and as many
more persisted in the Jackson Hole
region and other places in the severe
winter two years ago. The same
thing will happen again, II a bitter
winter sets in.
1T is shame to protect and build
up great herds of these wild animals
until they number $4,000 to $4,000,
as they did in Wyoming two years
ago, and then fail to protect their
winter feeding grounds. More die in
this manner, and with the intense
suffering of starvation, than at the
hands Of hunters.
present preserves of game are
holding their own outside of elk.
Deer and mountain sheep have a lit
tie more than held their own during
the last Is or 20 years.
Ned Frost makes his home in Cody,
Wyo.. when he isn't out on a hunt
ing expedition of his own, or direct
ing . party Of Americans, British or
French nobility into almost inacces-
stble places where fishing, hunting
and scenery is unspoiled. He is con-
sidered by many great sportsmen the
world over as Americas most noted
hunter and guide. Yet he is a mod
est, quiet, unassuming man, the nat
ural, true type of westerner, who
bears evidence that he has lived the
better portion of his life in the great
outdoors, trapping and hunting since
he was seven years old, when he
killed his first antelope, and guiding
since he was II.
Man Who Loves Nature Is True Blue
1--WE never had a sportsman try to
beat me-" Frost says.
Somehow, 1t seems that the man
who loves nature is a true-blue man
or he wouldn't have that instinct.
1T doesn't make much difference
whether a man is count, or what
he is. II he loves nature and likes to
get out in the wilds on a hunting
party. you can bank on him.
There was the Prince of Monaco,
probably one of the richest men in
the world before the war, and who
is now regaining his fortune since
Monte Carlo is running full blast
once more. He was a nice, quiet old
gentleman. great lover of nature.
1t was In the fall of 1913 that I
conducted him and his royal party
Of sportsmen on bear and elk hunt
in Wyoming.
Then there was Charley Gates
'Bet-a-Million Gates'-who came out
west for hunting expedition several
years ago. I remember that he spent
about $4,000 in thirty minutes in
Cody one day, showing the party a
good time. Among other things, he
bought each one of US $3.50 coon
skin coat, worth about 5000 at the
present prices.
He was . prince of q fellow,
thouShtful and considerate of others.
Gates Camo Out In Special Car
He came out In his special Pull
man car. He had two doctors and a
nurse With him. and among the per-