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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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ons before, and thenights snow had covered the grass sodeeply that their breakfast had beenlight that morning. Therefore when Icame to the cabin of Charles Neil, anold trapper, shortly after fording theBuffalo, and learned he had oats andhay, I halted for the day. Neil has been a fur trapper for morethan thirty years and for the early sea-son had a good showing of fall pelts,indicating that some fur-bearing animalsstill survive here. Mink and muskratpelts were chief among his catch. The road northward to YellowstonePark was through a romantic and pic-turesque region. To the left lay theTetons, rising bleak and rugged, theirglacier stubs gleaming white in the sun-light, and the atmosphere bore the per-fume of the pine and fir forest spread-ing far away in every direction. This is a magnificent game cover andrefuge. It is the sanctuary of Wyo-mings moose, numbering now aboutfour hundred. While any considerablenumber of elk would starve here in thewinter, it is an ideal winter as well as
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* CO I ^?■ o w « w —1 (t. W fa > £ W a CO £ « I* hj Q s fa 328 THE OUTING MAGAZINE summer range for moose and deer, bothof which are browsing animals, whilethe elk normally is not. In connectionwith Yellowstone Park it offers a widearea of protection to bear, fur-bearinganimals, and game herds. A great manybeaver are breeding here. The close season on moose will endin Wyoming in 1912, unless it is ex-tended, and it is hardly to be supposedthat the legislature will do otherwisethan extend it, for one years huntingwould put a setback upon the moose thatwould spoil the work of years. There is some poaching on the refuge,but not a great deal. Two weeks be-fore I passed through it, an army wagonwas overturned on a rough bit of road.A mounted lieutenant, with twosoldiers, escorted the wagon. A forestranger, happening along, dismounted toassist the driver and soldiers in rightingthe wagon, and what was his surprise todiscover in the cargo which had rolledout upon

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