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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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re than a century ago. In the Adirondacks, orthe North Woods, as they were formerly called,moose abounded among the hard wood ridges andlakes. This was the great hunting country of theSix Nations. Here, too, many of the CanadianIndians came for their winter supply of moosemeat and hides. The rival tribes fought over thesehunting grounds much in the same manner as thenorthern and southern Indians warred for the con-trol of Kentucky. Going westward in the United States we find nomoose until we reach the northern peninsula ofMichigan and northern Wisconsin, where moosewere once numerous. They are still abundant innorthern Minnesota, where the country is ex-tremely well suited to their habits. Then there is abreak, caused by the great plains, until we reachthe Rocky Mountains. They are found along themountains of western Montana and Idaho as farsouth as the northwest corner of Wyoming in theneighborhood of the Yellowstone Park, the Tetonsand the Wind River Mountains being their south- 380
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Distribution of the Moose ern limit in this section.* The moose of the westare relatively small animals with simple antlers,and have adapted themselves to mountain livingin striking contrast to their kin In the east. North of the Canadian boundary we may startwith the curious fact that the great peninsula ofLabrador, which seems in every way a suitable lo-cality for moose, has always been devoid of them.There Is no record of their ever appearing east ofthe Saguenay River, and this fact accounts fortheir absence from Newfoundland, which receivedits fauna from the north by way of Labrador, andnot from the west by way of Cape Breton. New-foundland is well suited to the moose, anda number of Individuals have been turned loosethere, without, as yet, any apparent results. Sys-tematic and persistent effort, however, in thisdirection should be successful. South of the St. Lawrence River, the peninsulaof Gaspe was once a favorite range, but the moosewere nearly killed off in the early 6os by h

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