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Title: The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Chittenden, Hiram Martin, 1858-1917
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Publisher: Cincinnati : The R. Clarke company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the Park as it will always bethe most attractive from the dignity and grace of itsbearing. Deer are abundant in two well-known species—theblack-tail, or Dakota mule deer, and the white-tail. Thefirst is the more common, and is found in nearly all partsof the Park. Their winter range is mainly in the northof the Park and they are as familiar around the buildingsat j\rammoth Hot Springs as a herd of domestic cattle. The antelope and mountain sheep are much less numer-ous than the elk and deer, but there is no reason to sup-pose that they are not holding their own. The anteloperange is in the north of the Park extending from Gardi-ner to Soda Butte and back on the northern slopes of Mt.Washburn. The mountain sheep range principally uponMt. Everts and )\It. Washburn. In the winter season bothantelope and sheep are seen near the road in the vicinityof Gardiner. All reports indicate that the moose, which used to rangethrough the southern portions of the Park, have well-nighdisappeared. y
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l^ijLiN Among the Flowers—Posixg for a Picture. JAUXA OF THE YELLOWSTONE. 225 Among the fiir-bcaring animals there are, in additionto the beaver already mentioned, a large number of otter,and a few foxes of the common species. Muskrats are veryabundant. Of the strictly carnivorous species the mountain lionis the most important. It seems to be in no danger ofextinction and is one of two animals that the authoritiesconsider it necessary to kill for the protection of othergame. The other of these animals is the coyote, whosepower of increase baffles all efforts to exterminate it. Thecoyote is the only abundant species of the wolf genusknown to exist in the Park. There are two species of the lynx genus in. the Park,the Canadian L)mx and the bobcat, or wild cat. An animal which was very common in the Park tenyears ago, but is now rarely seen, if at all, is the porcu-pine. WTiat is the cause of its strange disappearance,and whether that disappearance is permanent or only tem-porary, no on

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