Part 1

THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN’S LIBRARY

EDITED BY CASPAR WHITNEY

MUSK-OX, BISON, SHEEP AND GOAT

MUSK-OX, BISON, SHEEP AND GOAT

BY CASPAR WHITNEY GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL AND OWEN WISTER

New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1904

All rights reserved

COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up, electrotyped, and published February, 1904.

Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

THE MUSK-OX. BY CASPAR WHITNEY

I. MY FIRST KILL 17

II. THE PROVISION QUESTION 32

III. SEASONS AND EQUIPMENT 44

IV. METHOD OF HUNTING 56

V. THE MUSK-OX 70

THE BISON. BY GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL 107

THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP: HIS WAYS. BY OWEN WISTER 167

THE WHITE GOAT AND HIS WAYS. BY OWEN WISTER 227

INDEX 277

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE BEGINNING OF THE SLAUGHTER Frontispiece

PAGE

IN THE FAR NORTH 15

AT BAY 30

OUTNUMBERED 45