Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat

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Owen Wister. Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat

Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat

Table of Contents

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE MUSK-OX AND ITS HUNTING

I. My First Kill

II. The Provision Question

III. Seasons and Equipment

IV. Method of Hunting

V. The Musk-ox

MUSK-OX

THE BISON

AMERICAN BISON

THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP: HIS WAYS

AMERICAN BIGHORN

THE WHITE GOAT AND HIS WAYS

ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT

Footnote

INDEX

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George Bird Grinnell, Owen Wister, Caspar Whitney

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Midsummer is the season when the hunter may visit the Barren Grounds with the least discomfort and least danger, for at this time you go by canoe. The caribou are plentiful and the thermometer rarely goes below freezing-point. But even then trials are many, and there is considerable danger of starvation. The mosquitoes are a pest almost beyond endurance, and the caribou, although abundant, are down toward the Arctic and of very uncertain movement. Their course of migration one year may be fifty to one hundred miles east or west of where it was the preceding year. In the 350,000 square miles of the Barren Grounds one may easily go days without finding caribou even at such a time of plenty; and not to find them might easily mean starvation.

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