He made an extraordinary voyage down the Bighorn and finally down the Missouri to St. Louis in a "bull-boat.
Lisa proceeded with his party to the mouth of the Bighorn River and there established a fort.
What is even more satisfactory, bighorn which had entirely disappeared from most parts of the Canadian Rockies are now increasing rapidly in the Parks.
There was a long day's journey ahead up to and over Bighorn Pass, and a good deal of uncertainty as to where we might find any sort of a camping ground on the other side of the mountains.
These mountains, which in height and shape exactly resemble the range from which the Bighorn rises, are to the north of that snow peak.
It was at least three miles in breadth, and offered us a free prospect of the mountain saddle and its isolated peaks, of which the Bighorn rose far above the others.
These mountains give rise, not merely to the Wind or Bighorn River, but to several branches of the Yellowstone and the Missouri on the east, and of the Columbia and Colorado on the west; thus dividing the sources of these mighty streams.
It is the north fork or branch of the Bighorn River, but bears its peculiar name of the Wind River, from being subject in the winter season to a continued blast which sweeps its banks and prevents the snow from lying on them.
The mountain which now towered above them was one of theBighorn chain, bordered by a river, of the same name, and extending for a long distance rather east of north and west of south.
Ben Jones the hunter, however, in one of the passes of the Black Hills, succeeded in bringing down a bighorn from the verge of a precipice, the flesh of which was pronounced by the gormands of the camp to have the flavor of excellent mutton.
They were now in the bosom of the second Bighorn ridge, with another lofty and snow-crowned mountain full in view to the west.
As landmarks they guided themselves by the summits of the far distant mountains, which they supposed to belong to the Bighorn chain.
The black-tailed deer would bound up the ravines on their approach, and the bighorn would gaze fearlessly down upon them from some impending precipice, or skip playfully from rock to rock.
In the evening they encamped near to each other in a defile of the mountains, on the borders of a stream running north, and falling into Bighorn River.
These they supposed to be the Bighorn Mountains, so called from the animal of that name, with which they abound.
The bighorn is so named from its horns; which are of a great size, and twisted like those of a ram.
On the evening of the 14th September, they encamped on the forks of the Wind or Bighorn River.
The narrow valley in which they encamped being watered by a running stream, yielded fresh pasturage, and though in the heart of the Bighorn Mountains, was well stocked with buffalo.
When this neck is finally breached by erosion, Bighorn Mesa will be just as isolated and inaccessible as Junction Butte, now cut off from Grand View Point.
In the wilds they occasionally kill wapiti, and oftenbighorn sheep and white goats; but their favorite prey is the deer.
The Park contains many Rocky Mountain goats and bighorn sheep.
In some localities bighorn sheep and mountain goats are abundant.
The Rocky Mountain Park probably excels in the number ofbighorn sheep.
Far to the south, in brigand-infested mountains on the edge of China, there dwelt a herd of bighorn sheep, the argali of the Mongols.
The supreme trophy of a sportsman's life is the head of a Mongolian bighorn sheep.
Illustration: Where the Bighorn Sheep Are Found] [Illustration: A Mongolian Roebuck] My ram was a beauty.
Harry Caldwell and I returned from our bighorn sheep and wapiti hunt on November 19.
As it is not easy to weigh large game in camp, and as I am no believer in guess-weights, I shall not attempt to estimate the weight of a bighorn ram; but, bearing in mind that the O.
The track of the goat is not unlike that of a large bighorn ram, but squarer and blunter.
They are taking skins of the antelope and the bighorn and the deer, even skins of the prairie-grouse and the badger and the prairie-dog--everything they can get.
Two flocks ofbighorn mountain sheep passed by in single file like two lines of proud, set wooden figures.
By him lives also the weasel, the ptarmigan, and the Bighorn wild sheep; but no other fellow lives higher in the sky than he; he occupies the conning tower of the continent.
Another time I frightened a lion from a cliff where he was waiting for a near-by flock of bighorn sheep to come within leaping distance.
No wild animal grass eater excels the bighorn sheep in climbing skill, alertness, endurance, and playfulness.
On land he usually selects the smoothest, easiest way, but once I saw him descend a rocky precipice with speed and skill excelled only by the bighorn sheep.
Although many a shy, big fellow among the wild folks had accepted me as a friend, I had not even hoped to have a close enough meeting with a wild bighorn ram to make an introduction necessary for good form.
At last I walked up to my bighorn friend, rubbed his back and felt his horns.
Bighorn Mountain Sheep] Early one evening, two days later, I peeped through the willows near the south end of the canal and saw an aspen pole with two or three twigs and several leaves fluttering from it.
Through the whole of the present century the villages of the Snakes were at a considerable distance west of the Bighorn Range, and some of them were even on the upper waters of the Pacific slope.
The Bighorn Range, below the snow line, is in the main well timbered with pine, fir, oak, and juniper.
It is likely that they were so in 1743, in which case the war-party would not have only reached the Bighorn Mountains, but have pushed farther on to within sight of the great Wind River Range.
He had penetrated the Yellowstone and established Fort Lisa at the mouth of the Bighorn in the very heart of the Crow-land,--the first building in what is now Montana.
This was of the Colorado bighorn species, and at the time of measurement the owner had been dead about two months.
The chamois and the wild mountain goat may equal them in climbing among the crags and peaks, but in descending dizzy precipices and sheer walls the bighorn sheep are unrivaled.
To the right and left of the fireplace hung twin bighorn heads, and elk and stag antlers on the other walls supplied racks for an ample variety of rifles, polished by familiar use and kept, through love of trusty friends, in good order.
He was feeling across precipitous gashes and along treacherous ledges esteemed by Bighorn but feared by horse and man; and among huge masses of rocky fragments that had crashed from dizzy heights above before finding a resting place.
The buffalo hunters remained to the west of the Bighorn River and, presumably, they did not encroach too heavily upon the Crow.
Deer and elk were taken in the fall in the mountain country north of Hailey, and bighorn sheep were also pursued in the mountainous crags of this area.
None of the buffalo hunters relied completely on that animal for food, and the high mountain parks abounded in elk, bighorn sheep, moose, and deer.
The principal game taken was deer, elk, bear, and some bighorn sheep.
The bighorn resembles the wapiti in colour, although it is of a lighter brown, especially in winter.
The bighorn is a fearless and skilful mountaineer, and will climb or descend precipices by bounding from ledge to ledge where the most reckless hunter dares not follow.
Both the bighorn and the mazama are sought by Indians for food and for their pelts, and their horns are frequently used, especially in Alaska, in the manufacture of spoons.
While I was watching a flock of bighorn sheep, a grizzly came to the summit of a near-by mountain.
He will meet a bighorn sheep or other wild animal, and, though aware of its presence, pay no apparent attention to it.
With his indubitable power, backed by the unpopularity of the sheepman in this cattle country, the King of the Bighorn could destroy his cousin if he set himself to do so.
By a strange irony of fate they met again in the West years later, and the enmity between them was renewed, growing every month more bitter on the part of the one who called himself the King of the Bighorn Country.
Detroit, Michigan, could offer no such field for her expansive charms as the Bighorn country, Wyoming.
I didn't say it wasn't, though I expaict Bighorn County will forget to give y'u a unanimous vote of thanks for doing it.
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