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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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ut-lying yearling, stalked it as it lay or as it fed, andseized it by the head and throat. The bull whichthey killed was in a little open valley by himself,many miles from any other elk. The cougar whichkilled it, judging from its tracks, was a very largemale. As the elk were evidently rather too numer-ous for the feed, I do not think the cougars weredoing any damage. Coyotes are plentiful, but the elk evidently haveno dread of them. One day I crawled up to withinfifty yards of a band of elk lying down. A coyotewas walking about among them, and beyond anoccasional look they paid no heed to him. He didnot venture to go within fifteen or twenty paces ofany one of them. In fact, except the cougar, I sawbut one living thing attempt to molest the elk.This was a golden eagle. We saw several of thesegreat birds. On one occasion we had ridden out tothe foot of a great sloping mountain side, dottedover with bands and strings of elk amounting inthe aggregate probably to a thousand head. Most 36
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Wilderness Reserves of the bands were above the snow line—some ap-pearing away back toward the ridge crests, andlooking as small as mice. There was one bandwell below the snow line, and toward this we rode.While the elk were not shy or wary, in the sensethat a hunter would use the words, they were byno means as familiar as the deer; and this particu-lar band of elk, some twenty or thirty in all,watched us with interest as we approached. Whenwe were still half a mile off they suddenly startedto run toward us, evidently frightened by some-thing. They ran quartering, and when about fourhundred yards away we saw that an eagle wasafter them. Soon it swooped, and a yearling in therear, weakly, and probably frightened by theswoop, turned a complete somersault, and when itrecovered its feet, stood still. The great bird fol-lowed the rest of the band across a little ridge, be-yond which they disappeared. Then it returned,soaring high in the heavens, and after two or threewide circles, swoope

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