CHAPTER XI

THE MOOSE; THE BEAST OF THE WOODLAND

The Moose of the Rocky Mountains--Its Habits--Difficult Nature of Its Haunts--Repeated Failures while Hunting It--Watching a Marsh at Dawn--A Moose in the Reeds--Stalking and Shooting Him--Traveling Light with a Pack-train--A Beaver Meadow--Shooting a Big Bull at Dawn--The Moose in Summer, in Winter--Young Moose--Pugnacity of Moose--Still-hunting Moose--Rather More Easy to Kill than Whitetail Deer--At Times a Dangerous Antagonist--The Winter Yards--Hunting on Snowshoes--A Narrow Escape--A Fatal Encounter