The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-01-19
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.
81 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.
'fWinter 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 win
ter ranges occupied by livestock, and
they perish by the thousands.
Many Elk Die Each Winter
"Ten thousand elk died in the Vel
lowstone park country and as many
more persisted in the Jackson Hole
and other places in the sever
winter two years ago.. The same
thing will happen again, if a bitter
winter sets in.
'tIt is a shame to protect and build
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
feeding grounds. More die in
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
lie more than held their own during
The last 10 or 20 years"
Ned Frost makes his home in Cody,
Wyo., when he isn't out on a hunt
.ng expedition of his own, or direct
.ng a party of Americans, British or
nobility into almost inacces-
,ible places where fishing, hunting
md scenery is unspoiled. He is con-
'idered by many great sportsmen the
world over as Americas most noted
lunter and guide. Yet he is a mod
quiet, u~nassuming man, the nat
lral, true type of westerner, who
,ears evidence that he has lived the
,etter portion of his life in the great
outdoors, trapping and hunting since
lie was sever years old, when he
TILED his first antelope, and guiding
ince he was IT.
ian Who Loves Nature is True Blue
1--we never had a sportsman try to
'eat me-" Frost says.
Somehow, it seems that the man
Who loves nature is a true-blue man
r he wouldn't have that instinct.
at doesn't make much difference
yhether a man is a count, or what
e is, if he loves nature and likes to
ct out in the wilds on a hunting
arty, you can bank on him.
There was the Prince of Monaco,
robably one of the richest men in
he world before the war, and who
now regaining his fortune since
Ionte Carlo is running full blast
nee more. He was a nice, quiet old
entleman, a great lover of nature.
was in the fall of 1913 that
Onducted him and his royal party
sportsmen on a bear and elk hunt
/ Wyoming.
''Then there was Charley Gates
3et-a-Million Gates'-who came out
est for a hunting expedition several
ago. I remember that he spent
bout 100000 in thirty minutes in
ody n day, showing the party a
pod time. Among other things, he
ought each one of us a $3.50 coon
rim coat, worth about 5000 at the
prices.
"He was a prince of a fellow,
loughtful and considerate of others.
Gates Came Out in Special Car
"He came out in his special Pull
car. He had two doctors and a
1rse with him, and among the perl