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Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat · Caspar Whitney — chapter 22 of 25 · ~198 words · public domain

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Pemmican, from dried buffalo meat, 156. Scarcity of, in the North, 49.

Philadelphia, white goat in Zoölogical Gardens at, 231, 237-238.

Piccolo, Padre, 250.

Pike, Warburton, 47, 62, 74, 94. Musk-ox heads owned by, 100.

Pine, patches of, in Land of Little Sticks, 36.

Platte River, buffaloes on tributaries of, 125-126.

Prairie bison (Bos bison typicus), 165.

Protection, government, of musk-oxen, 51.

Provision question in musk-ox hunting, 36-38.

Provisions in Barren Grounds, 62-63.

Rae, J., Hudson’s Bay Company factor, 99.

Railroads, effect of, on buffaloes, 113-116.

Ram seen at Livingston, Mont., 171-173, 183-184.

“Records of Big Game,” R. Ward’s, 104, 165, 223-224, 274.

Red Desert Country, buffaloes in, 126.

Red River, buffaloes on the, 162.

Red River half-breeds, buffalo hunts of, 117, 154-155.

Rings on rams’ horns, 208 n.

Robinson, John (“Uncle Jack Robinson”), 124.

Rocky Mountain goat [Haplocerus montanus or Oreamnus montanus], 231, 259, 274. See White goat.

Rocky Mountain sheep [Ovis canadensis typica], 223, 259.

“Royal Natural History, The,” Lydekker’s, 246, 247.

Rubbing-stones, buffaloes’, 131, 163.

Rupicapra americana, white goat termed, 259.

Rutting season, buffaloes’, 131-132. Mountain sheep’s, 184, 208.

Saddleback sheep [Ovis fannini], 181-182, 213.

Salt Lake Valley, buffaloes in, 124.

Salvatierra, Padre de, 250.

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