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Title: American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938 Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Subjects: Big game hunting
Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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down the worst places they went veryfast with great bounds. It was a marvelous ex-hibition of climbing. After we had finished this horseback trip wcwent on sleds and skis to the upper Geyser Basinand the Falls of the Yellowstone. Although Itwas the third week in April, the snow was stillseveral feet deep, and only thoroughly trainedsnow horses could have taken the sleighs along,while around the Yellowstone Falls It was possibleto move only on snowshoes. There was very lit-tle life in those woods. We saw an occasionalsquirrel, rabbit or marten; and In the openmeadows around the hot waters there were geeseand ducks, and now and then a coyote. Aroundcamp Clarks crows and Stellars jays, and occa-sionally magpies came to pick at the refuse; and ofcourse they were accompanied by the whiskeyjacks with their usual astounding familiarity. AtNorris Geyser Basin there was a perfect chorus ofbird music from robins, purple finches, juncos andmountain bluebirds. In the woods there were 42 ^. ^ . ,
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^ ^ A Wilderness Reserves mountain chickadees and nuthatches of variouskinds, together with an occasional woodpecker. Inthe northern country we had come across a veryfew blue grouse and ruffed grouse, both as tame aspossible. We had seen a pigmy owl no larger thana robin sitting on top of a pine in broad daylight,and uttering at short intervals a queer un-owUikecry. The birds that interested us most were thesolitaires, and especially the dippers or water-ousels. We were fortunate enough to hear thesolitaires sing not only when perched on trees, buton the wing, soaring over a great canon. Thedippers are to my mind well-nigh the most at-tractive of all our birds. They stay through thewinter in the Yellowstone because the waters areIn many places open. We heard them singingcheerfully, their ringing melody having a certainsuggestion of the winter wrens. Usually theysang while perched on some rock on the edge or inthe middle of the stream; but sometimes on thewing. In the open places the w

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