3-078-068 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

After Rocky Mountain Sheep, 1890. '1. A Search. 2. Stalking, 3. Success. Although Western America, with its prairies and plains, its Rocky Mountains, salt deserts, Wahsatch and Cascade ranges, and Pacific slope, is an extensive Continental region, the time is rapidly approaching when there will not be space for large wild animals, or for Indian tribes of mankind living as hunters of such beasts. The buffalo, which is properly a bison, will soon be extinct, only some herds of a few hundred now remaining in secluded districts; the elk, the deer, the antelope, the wild goat, the "bighorn" or mountain sheep, are fated to speedy extermination. In Wyoming and Montana, however, the sheep may still be found by a laborious and troublesome search...our Sketches represent the adventures of a sportsman going after such a peculiar kind of big game. They are furnished by a correspondent, Mr. H. H. Lawrence, who lived three months at a cattle-ranch near the Bighorn Mountains, in the centre of Wyoming, nearly two hundred miles from the line of the Northern Pacific Railway, and about the same distance from the Union Pacific Railway line, to the south. He has also supplied us with Sketches of Ranch Life in Wyoming, which may hereafter appear in this Journal'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.