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OOflY ii nil I started to
Ay I limit over the Ifreat ta
I tile-land, and led onr
tnomitiiln-slile, by elk
trullH bo had, that they
hml to climb like goats.
All these elk-trulls have one striking
peculiarity. They lead through thick
timber, but every now anil then send
off short, well-worn hrnnrhcH to some
cllff-edjie or Juttlns cnig. comuiaudlnK
q view far and wide over the country
beneath. Klk love to stand on these
lookout points, mill scan the valleys
and mountains round about.
Hlue grouse rone from beside our
path; Clarke's crows Hew past us.
with a hollow, flapping sound, or lit
Id the pine-tops, culling and flirting
their tails; the jrray-clad whisky-Jacks,
with multitudinous cries, hopped and
fluttered near us. Snow-shoe rabbits
scuttled awny, the big furry feet
which give them their name already
turning white. At Inst W'e came out
on the great plateau, seamed with
deep, narrow ravines. Reaches of
pasture alternated with groves and
open forests of varying size. Almost
Immediately we heard the bugle of a
bull elk, and saw a big band of cows
and calves on the other side at a val
ley. There were three bulls with
them, one very larire, and we tried
to creep up on them; but the wind
was hnflllng and spoiled our stalk. So
we returned to our horses, mounted
them, and rode a inllo farther, toward
a large open wood ou a hlll-slde. When
within two hundred yards we beard
directly ahead the bugle of bull,
and pulled up short In a moment 1
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ELK HUNT
AT
TWO OCEAN
PASS
BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
saw til in walking iiuuujju a.i open
glade; he had not seen us. The slight
breeze brought us down his scent. Elk
have a strong characteristic smell; It
Is usually sweet, like that of a herd
of Alderney cows; but In old bulls,
while rutting. It Is rank, pungent, and
lasting. We stood motionless till the
bull was out of sight, thon stole to
the wood, tied our horses, and trotted
after hlra. He was traveling fast oc
casionally calling; whereupon other
In the neighborhood would answer
Evidently he had been driven out of
some herd by the master bull.
He went faster than we did, and
while we were vainly trying to over
teke him we heard another very loud
and snnorons challenge to our left. It
came from a ridge-crest at the edge of
the woods, among some scattered
clumps of the northern nut-pine or
plnyon a neer conifer, growing very
high on the mountains. Its multlforki'il
trunk and wide-spreading bronchi
giving It the rounded top. and, at a
distance, the general look of an oak
rather than a pine. We at ouce walked
toward the ridge, up-wlnd. In a min
ute or two. to our chagrin, we stum
bled on an outlying spike bull, evident
ly kept on the outskirts of tlo herd b;
the master bull. I thought he would
alarm all the rest: but as we stood mo
tlouless, he could not see clearly wli.r
we were. He stood, run, stood again
gazed at us, and trotted slowly otT
We hurried forward as fast as wt
dared, and with too little cure; for we
suddenly came In view of two cows.
As they raised their heads to look,
Woody squatted down where be was.
to keep their attention Axed, while I
cautiously tried to slip off to one side
unobserved. Favored by the neutral
tint of my buckskin huntlng-shlrt, with
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whl''b my shoes, lefglns, and soft hat
matched. I succeeded As soon as I
was out of sight 1 ran hard and came
up to a hillock crested with plnyons.
behind which I Judged I should And
the herd. As I approached the crest,
their strong, sweet smell smote my
nostrils. In another moment I saw the
tips of a pair of mighty antlers, and 1
peered over the crest with my rifle at
peered over the crest.
the ready. Thirty yards off. behind
clump of plnyons. stood a huce bull,
bis head thrown buck us he rubbed 111
shoulders with his horns. There were
several cows nrounil him. und one saw
me Immediately, and took alarm. 1
fired Into the bull's shoulder, Inflicting
a mortal wound; but he went off, and
I raced after him nt top speed, firing
twice into bis flank; then he stopped,
very sick, and I broke his neck with u
fourth bullet An elk often hesitates
In the first moments of surprise and
fright, and does not get really under
way for two or three hundred yards;
but, when once fairly started, he may
go several miles, even though mortally
wounded; therefore, the hunter, after
nis nrst snot, snouia run rorward as
I fast as he can, and shoot again and
I again until the quarry drops. In this
I way many animals that would other
I wise be loat are obtained, especially
I by the man who has a repeating
rifle. I The elk I thus slew was a giant
Ills body was the size of a steer's,
and his antlers, though not unusually
long, were very massive and heavy.
He lay In a glade, on the edge of a
great cliff. Standing on Its brink we
overlooked a most beautiful country,
the home of all homes for the elk: a
wilderness of mountains, the Immense
evergreen forest broken by park and
glade, by meadow and pasture, by
bare hlll-slde and barren table-land.
Some five miles off lay the sheet of
water known to the old hunters as
Spotted Ijike: two or three shallow,
sedgy places, and spots of geyser for
mation, made pale green blotches on
Its wlnd-rtppled surface. Far to the
southwest. In daring beauty and maj
esty, the grand domes and lofty spires
of the Tetona shot into the blue
ky.
That night, as on more than one
night afterward, a bull elk came down
whistling to within two or three hun
dred yards of the tents, and tried to
Join the horse herd. The moon had
set. so I could not go after It Elk are
very restless and active throughout
the night In the rutting season: but
where undisturbed they feed freely in
the daytime, resting for two or three
hours about noon.
Next day, which was rainy, we spent
In getting In the antlers and meat of
the two dead elk; and I shot off the
heads ef two or three blue grouse on
the way home. The following day 1
killed another bull elk, following him
by the strong, not unpleaslng. smell,
and hitting him twice as he ran, at
about eighty yards. 80 far I had had
good luck, killing everything I had
hot at; but now the luck changed,
through no fault of mine, as far as I
could tee. and Ferguson had his In
nings. The day after I killed thla
bull he shot two fine mountain rams;
and during the remainder of our hunt
he killed five elk one cow, for meat,
and four good bulls. The two rams
were with three others, all old and
with lino horns: Ferguson peeped, over
a lofty precipice and saw them com
ing up It only fifty yards below him.
Ills two first and finest bulls were ob
tained by hard running and good
shooting: the herds were oa the move
at the time, and only his speed of foot
and soundness of wind enabled him
to get near enough for a shot. One
herd started before he got close, and
he kllle,! the master bull bv a shot
right through the heart, as It trotted
past, a hundred and fifty yards dls
tsnt. As for me. during the next ten days
I kllle.1 nothing save one cow for meat;
and this though 1 hunted bard every
day from morning till night, no matter
what the weather. Our HI success was
lu part due to sheer Imd luck; but the
chief element therein was the presence
of a great hunting. party of Shoshone
Indians. Split Into Iwnds of eight to
ten each, they scoured the who:,, coun
try on their tough, sure-fooled ponies.
As they s ew whatever the c.miM, but
by preference cows atul calves, and as
they were very perseverinc. but also
rery excitable and generally poor shots,
40 that they wasted much powder, they
not only wrought havoc among the elk.
but also scared the survivors out of all
the country over which they bunted.
Day In and day out we plodded on.
In a bunting trip the days of long mo
notony In getting to the ground, and
the days of unrequited toll after It has
leen reached, always far outnumber
the red-letter days of success. But It Is
Just these times of failure that really
test the hunter. In the long run, common-sense
and dogged perseverance
avail hlra more than any other quali
ties. The man who does not give up,
but hunts steadily and resolutely
through the spells of bad luck until the
luck turns, is the man who wins suc
cess In the end.
After a week at Two-Ocean Pass, we
gathered our pack-animals one frosty
morning, and again set off across the
mountains. A two-days' Jaunt took us
to the summit of Wolverine Pass, near
I'lnyon Peak, beside a little mountain
tarn; each morning we found Its sur
face skimmed with black Ice. for the
nights were cold. Afrr three or four
days, we shifted camp tc e mouth of
Wolverine Creek, to get off the hunting
grounds of the Indians. We had used
up our last elk-meat that morning, and
when we were wlthlu a couple of
hours' Journey of our Intended laltlng-
place. Woody and I struck off on foot
for a hunt Just lief ore sunset we
came on three or four elk: a spike bull
ftooj for a moment behind some tuiCK
evergreens a hundred yards off. (incas
ing nt his shoulder, 1 fired, 11 ml he fell
dead after running a few rods. I had
broken the luck, after ten days of ill
success
Next morning Woody and l. with
the packer, rode to where this elk luy
We loaded the meat on a pack-horse,
ami let (he pucker take both the load
ed animal and our saddle-horses back
to camp, while we made ti hunt on
foot. We went up the sleep, forest
clad mountain-side, and before we hud
walked un hour heard two elk whis
tling ahead of us. The woods were
open, und quite free from under
growth, and we were able to advance
noiselessly: there was no wind, for the
weather was still, clear, and cold.
Both of the elk were evidently very
much excited, answering each other
continually: they bad probably been
master bulls, but had become so ex
hausted that their rivals had driven
tbcra from the herds, forcing them to
remain lu seclusion until they regain
ed their lost strength. As we crept
stealthily forward, the calling grew
louder and louder, until we could bear
the grunting sounds with which the
challenge of the nearest ended. He
was In a large wallow, which was
also a lick. When we were still sixty
yards off, he heard us. and rushed
out. but wheeled and stood a moment
to gaze, puzzled by my buckskin suit
1 fired Into his throat, breaking bis
neck, and down he went In a heap.
RuBhing In nud turning. I called to
Woody, "He's a twelve-pointer, but
the horns are small!" As I spoke I
heard the roar of the challenger of the
other bull not two hundred yards
abend, ns If In defiant answer to my
shot.
Running quietly forward, I speedily
cmig'it n climpsp of his body He
was behind some fir-trees about seven
ty ynrds o;T, and I could not see which
way he was 8tuudlug. and so fired
Into the patch of tluuk which was vis
ible, aiming high, to break the back.
My aim was true, and the huge beast
crashed down-hill through the ever
greens, pulling himself on his fore
legs for fifteen or twenty rods, bis
hind quarters trailing. Racing for
ward, 1 broke his neck His antlers
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were the finest I ever got A couple
of whisky-Jacks appeared at the first
crack of the rifle with their customary
astonishing familiarity and heedless
ness of the hunter; they followed the
wounded bull as he dragged his great
carcass down the hill, and pounced
with ghoulish bloodthlrstlness on the
gouts of blood that were sprinkled
over the green herbage.
raced after Urn.
These two bulls lay only a couple or
hundred yards apart, on a broad game
trail, which was as well beaten as a
good bridle-path. We began to skin out
the bends; and as we were finishing we
heard another bull challenging far up
the mountain. He came nearer and
nearer, and as soon as we had ended
our work we grasped our rifles and
trotted toward him along the game
trail. He was very uoisy, uttering bis
loud, singing challenge every minute or
two. The trull was so broad and firm
that we walked In perfect silence.
After going only five or six hundred
yards, we got very close Indeed, and
stole forward on tip-toe. listening to
the roaring music. The sound came
from a steep, narrow ravine, to one
side of the trail, and I walked toward
It with my rifle at the ready. A alight
puff gave the elk my wind, and he
dashed out of the rnvlne like a deer;
but he was only thirty yards off, and
my bullet went into his shoulder as be
passed behind a clump of young spruce.
I plunged Into the ravine, scrambled
out of it and raced after him. la a
minute I saw him standing with droop
ing head, and two more shots finished
him. He also bore fine antlers. It was
a great piece of luck to get three such
fine bulls at the cost of half a day's
light work: but we bad fairly earned
them, having worked bard for ten
(lays, through rain, cold, hunger, and
fatigue, to no purpose. That evening
my home-coming to camp, with three
elk-tongues and a brace of ruffed
grouse hung at my belt was most bap-
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