Category: Adventure
We had passed through the “Land of Little Sticks,” as the Indians so appropriately call that desolate waste which connects the edge of timber land with the Barren Grounds, and had been for several days making our way north on the lookout for any living thing that would provide...
We had passed through the “Land of Little Sticks,” as the Indians so appropriately call that desolate waste which connects the edge of timber land with the Barren Grounds, and h...
2. Part 2I have been often asked why the periods of starvation experienced in musk-ox hunting could not be obviated by carrying food. I have been asked, in a word, why I did not haul sup...
3. Part 3The chances of getting musk-oxen in the Barren Grounds are not so good in summer as in winter, because travelling by canoe you are, of course, bound to keep to the chain of lake...
4. Part 4Previous to the advent of the whalers on this coast, the coast Eskimo also traded at these Hudson Bay posts. The country between the Porcupine River and the Arctic Coast, in whi...
5. Part 5After 1883, except for a band of about five thousand which had been overlooked on one of the Sioux reservations, there were no buffalo left in the northern country except a few...
6. Part 6Like most other herbivorous animals, the buffalo was subject to panics, and was easily stampeded, and when thoroughly frightened, a herd ran for a long way before stopping. When...
7. Part 7“The moment that the buffalo is dead, three or four hunters, their faces and hands often covered with gunpowder, and with pipes lighted, place the animal on its belly, and, by d...
8. Part 8As to the general name, all are agreed to let him pass conveniently as a sheep,--conveniently, but with a number of reserves which science can state. He has, for instance, some...
9. Part 9The visions of this band, as it scattered in twos and threes after crossing my gulch, would incline me to guess there must have been from fifteen to twenty of them--all rams. Th...
10. Part 10========+=======+==========+=================+========================== LENGTH |CIRCUM-| | | ON FRONT|FERENCE|TIP TO TIP| LOCALITY | OWNER CURVE | | | | --------+-------+------...
11. Part 11This was written two weeks before I was able to examine one that was in very truth snow-white; and lately, while looking through the books to find what they have to say that may...
12. Part 12It is hard not to yield to further temptation, not to transcribe from that diary of 1892 much more about the appearance and customs of the strange wild country through which I n...
13. Part 13Mountain sheep [American bighorn, _Ovis canadensis_], 171-226. Color, 179-180. Description, 179-183, 223-224. Distribution, 176, 224. Habitat, 199, 246-247. Height, 224. Hide, 1...